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Lab Work
Members of this year’s class of Ocean Science Journalism Fellows spent some time on a beach near WHOI collecting samples to look at the microbiome of the coastal ocean. The […]
Read MoreCoral Chemistry
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Chawalit “Net” Charoenpong teaches WHOI Summer Student Fellow Brooke Rasina to measure the amount of nitrogen in coral skeleton samples using a laboratory instrument […]
Read MoreTaking Attendance
Scientific studies often start with the basics—in this case, taking stock of what’s out there in the environment. This spring and summer, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer and guest […]
Read MoreDrawing Science From the Sea
Pioneering marine biologist Henry Bryant Bigelow served as the founding director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1939. Almost three decades earlier, when Bigelow was an undergraduate […]
Read MoreScience in Their Sights
The Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science (GOES) Institute brings a group of girls to WHOI during the summer before they begin sixth grade, as well as a teacher […]
Read MoreWith a Few Grains of Salt
Geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, stands on the deck of WHOI’s first research vessel, Atlantis, holding a mechanism to time the release of seismic equipment from the seafloor so that it […]
Read MoreFoundational Strengths
In 1956 Columbus Iselin (right) signed on for a second tour of duty as WHOI’s director, succeeding Edward Smith (left). Iselin came to WHOI to captain the Institution’s […]
Read MoreMany Languages, One Ocean
Corals, coral health, and the threats facing reefs worldwide will be just a few of the items on the agenda at a new conference tomorrow at WHOI. “Oceanos: WHOI en […]
Read MoreCatching the Wind
Morse Pond School students Meghan Ghelfi (foreground, left) and Elena Hyatt use an anemometer to measure wind velocity on WHOI’s Shore Lab beach this summer, with help from WHOI Administrative […]
Read MoreTrapped Under the Ice
In 2007, John Kemp was lowered in a metal basket from the icebreaker Oden to try to retrieve an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Puma visible just beneath Kemp’s long metal pole. Kemp, who […]
Read MoreEvidence of Hurricanes
Hurricanes have left their mark on Cape Cod, and members of the Coastal Systems Group go to great lengths to find evidence of past storms in local ponds […]
Read MoreCurious Creatures
This strange-looking creature is a siphonophore. Some are only about the size of a nickel, but others can stretch as much as 130 feet, making them among the longest animals […]
Read MoreWhat’s in a Name?
Lasting Legacy
Few research vessels have traveled as far or worked as long as Atlantis II, shown here undergoing remodeling in Boston to accommodate the launch and recovery of the deep-sea submersible […]
Read MoreRing Around the Sub
Nearly 2,000 people visited the WHOI pier August 13 for the third Woods Hole Science Stroll. A big attraction was a tour of the WHOI-operated research vessel Atlantis […]
Read MoreTension at Work
Parking lots at WHOI are sometimes used for anything but cars. Engineers Andy Bowen (left) and Don Peters cordoned one off recently so they could test a newly patented tether—part […]
Read MoreCharting a Course
Scientists aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong study a map of coastal New England to plan a multichannel seismic survey of the continental shelf and slope. The survey provides […]
Read MorePush Comes to Shove
WHOI guest student Jessie Pearl (left) and Northeastern co-op student Bethany Bowen worked a Russian peat borer into the mud Quamquissett Marsh in Woods Hole this summer. They were collecting peat […]
Read MoreOceanographic Trailblazers
Meeting JetYak
Science on the Pier
Senior engineering assistant Diana Wickman (right) talks with visitors to the WHOI pier at the recent Woods Hole Science Stroll. On the table in front of her is a […]
Read MoreMeasuring Mediterranean Currents
Researchers launch a buoy equipped with an acoustic Doppler current profiler from a research catamaran in the Mediterranean Sea. The buoy was designed by WHOI’s Upper Ocean Processes […]
Read MoreReady, Set, Sample
An Eye on Ice
This eerie twilight photo of the research vessel Neil Armstrong was taken earlier this month in waters off of Greenland by a new camera system called IceCam. It consists […]
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