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Sunlight Affects Oil Spills
A recent study by WHOI scientists Collin Ward and Chris Reddy showed that sunlight plays a critical and previously overlooked role in oil spills. Light energy rapidly alters the chemistry…
Read MoreKelpBot
WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya (left) and scientists Andone Lavery and Tim Stanton recovered a REMUS 100 “KelpBot” autonomous underwater vehicle they deployed with colleagues from the University of New England recently…
Read MoreCarbon Pump
This bell-shaped cluster is made up of gelatinous organisms called salps (genus Cyclosalpa). This kind of salp lives in sunlit surface waters, but other species migrate to and from the…
Read MoreSchool’s Out
Thriving schools of white grunts and schoolmaster snapper swim amid the lush corals of the Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) off Cuba. Because the reefs are somewhat…
Read MoreDeep Resident
There are an untold number of species like this jelly that are residents of the ocean’s twilight zone. The region of the ocean between 200 and 1,000 meters (660 and…
Read MoreFuture Explorer
Kayden Graham takes a “dive” in the Alvin personnel sphere on display at WHOI’s Ocean Science Discovery Center in Woods Hole, Mass. The exhibit includes panels saved from previous Alvin…
Read MoreTech Tranfser
Chris Land, WHOI Vice President for Legal Affairs (red tie) looks on as David Aubrey, CEO of EOM Offshore, LCC, signs an agreement in February 2018 that transfers controlling interest…
Read MoreAlvin’s Forebear
On January 20, 1961, in the midst of the Cold War, the bathyscaphe Trieste rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., during the Inauguration Day parade of President John F.…
Read MoreHappy World Oceans Day
Today is World Oceans Day, a worldwide celebration of the ocean and the benefits it provides to everyone on our blue planet. It helps regulate our climate and our water cycle, supplies…
Read MoreREMUS 6000 Test
WHOI engineers Amy Kukulya and Mark Dennett tested a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from the WHOI dock in 2014. Researchers have used the vehicle to locate Air France…
Read MoreFish Chatter
To our ears coral reefs may seem relatively quiet, but fish there make a variety of sounds that are often described by scientists as grunts, pops, chirps, hoots and more.…
Read MoreUnderwater Wonders
Researchers at WHOI spend their time trying to understand the ocean—the physics of its currents, the chemistry of its water and sediments, the geology of its seafloor, and the biology…
Read MoreShipping News
Ordinary seaman Derek Briggs (right) stands next to a surface buoy on the stern of the research vessel Neil Armstrong in April 2018. The ship had just docked in Woods…
Read MoreVehicle of Discovery
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and Vice President for Marine Facilities & Operations Rob Munier (right) show the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Geosciences…
Read MoreChomp!
Engineers in the WHOI Ocean Systems Laboratory developed REMUS SharkCam, an autonomous underwater vehicle that can locate, track, and film sharks in the wild. The vehicle is pre-programmed to home…
Read MoreForecasting Future Hurricanes
To Sea
The research vessel Atlantis sailed from Bermuda recently with the human-occupied submersible Alvin, the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry, and a science crew of geologists and geochemists. The team is searching…
Read MoreMulti-Pronged Coral Reef Research
WHOI scientist Amy Apprill led an first-of-its kind joint expedition with Cuban and American scientists in November 2017 to study the Gardens of the Queens in Cuba, one of the most untouched and unknown coral…
Read MoreA Field Trip for the Alvin Sphere
National Geographic is hosting a Titanic exhibit from May 30, 2018, to Jan. 6, 2019, at the Society’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The exhibit will include the old personnel sphere from the…
Read MoreTesting New Technology
Scientists and engineers are building a new vehicle that will be towed from research ships and able to transmit data in real time. The Deep-See will be equipped with instruments…
Read MoreAn Unexpected Collaborator
American and Cuban scientists teamed up for an unprecedented joint expedition in November 2017 to explore one of the Caribbean’s most pristine coral reefs. WHOI microbial ecologist Amy Apprill led the…
Read MoreBuilding on Past Experience
Before Henry Bryant Bigelow became WHOI’s founding director in 1930, the pioneering oceanographer and marine biologist conducted research aboard the U.S. Fish Commission vessel Grampus. Named for a large dolphin,…
Read MoreTaking a Global Approach
A school of blue-green chromis swim in colony of coral in the Farasan Banks off Saudi Arabia. An international team of scientists, including WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold, conducted a rapid…
Read MoreGolden Anniversary
Fifty years ago this month, WHOI Director Paul Fye (seated, right) and Howard Johnson (seated, center), president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), signed a memorandum aboard the research…
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