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A Portal to Hurricanes—Past and Future
This is a bird’s-eye view of a blue hole in the Bahamas. In the middle of it, WHOI researchers in a pontoon boat prepare to extract cores of sediments that…
Read MoreThe Outlook for Microplastics
Ecotoxicologist Marte Haave of Uni Research in Bergen, Norway, shows a vial of stormwater with paint fragments and other plastic particles to WHOI guest student Max Beaurepaire (front) and Rune Øyerhamn,…
Read MoreBeach Bacteria
Megan May, graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, collects specimens off rocks at a beach on Cape Cod, Mass. May has been researching bacteria in the coastal ocean and…
Read MoreTaking a Spin at Science
Henry Stommel (left) and Louis Howard were MIT professors who had ties to WHOI throughout much of their careers. Stommel is considered one of the most original and influential physical…
Read MoreMaybe Not What You Think
The Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis) is infamous for its painful stinging tentacles that can extend up to 10 meters (33 feet) long down from the surface. They are used to…
Read MoreEndangered Species Day
Today is Endangered Species Day, and among the most endangered animals are North Atlantic right whales. Fewer than 450 remain. Above, WHOI biologist Michael Moore (red jacket) and David Taylor,…
Read MoreA Surprising Turn
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tend to a surface buoy on the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. It was the latest expedition of…
Read MoreTaking the Leap
As steward of the research vessel Atlantis, Carl Wood is in charge of provisioning the ship, cooking meals, and overseeing the ship’s living spaces. He’s also a qualified Alvin swimmer,…
Read MoreA New View
This image is of a photogrammetric model of the Rouse Simmons, a schooner that sank on Lake Michigan in 1912 during a violent storm as it was carrying a cargo…
Read MoreOil and Sunlight Don’t Mix
An airplane sprays chemical dispersants on an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Two new studies by WHOI researchers found that sunlight…
Read MoreA Dunk on the Dock
WHOI Senior Engineer Matt Heintz steadies the remotely operated deep-sea vehicle Jason as it undergoes testing off the WHOI dock in 2016, after a $2.4 million upgrade funded by the National Science…
Read MoreWhat’s New Penguin?
Penguins have been in the news a lot this spring. In March, WHOI seabird ecologist Stephanie Jenouvrier was part of a team of scientists and engineers who discovered of a “supercolony”…
Read MoreGetting a Feel for Ocean Science
This spring, WHOI geobiologist Joan Bernhard (left) and geologist Véronique Le Roux (right) introduced students at the Perkins School for the Blind to foraminifera, or forams: small, single-celled organisms that…
Read MoreSampling Coral Health
WHOI scientist Amy Apprill collects a small sample of an elkhorn coral in November 2017 during an unprecedented joint expedition with Cuban and American scientists to study the Gardens of the Queens in Cuba, one of…
Read MorePulling Out All the Stops
Preparing the human-occupied submersible Alvin for launch follows a carefully scripted, multi-page checklist that requires careful attention to detail in order to ensure the safety of everyone inside the sub…
Read MoreMeasuring Wave Energy
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate students Lizzie Wallace (left) and Rose Palermo prepare to deploy tiltmeters to measure the current produced by waves in Whale Bay, Bermuda, as part of a…
Read MoreTwo Ships
Members of the WHOI community lined the dock on a rainy, cold morning recently to watch as the institution’s two large research vessels, Neil Armstrong (left) and Atlantis (top) returned…
Read MoreAt Home in the Tentacles
A pink anemonefish peers out from the tentacles of a big anemone in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, where WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold was part of an international team that…
Read MoreSmorgasbord from the Seafloor
Scientists collected these organisms from the bottom of the Bering Sea on a 2009 expedition. These polychaete worms and one mollusk (the light pink loop in the center) provide food…
Read MoreCalm After the Storm
This kayak is souped up for science. Dubbed the JetYak, it’s motorized and remotely controlled, and it maneuvers easily in shallow water. WHOI scientist and engineer Peter Traykovski used it…
Read MoreA Curious Octopus
A curious octopus (Grimpoteuthis) peers into the viewport of the human-occupied deep-submergence vehicle Alvin, while the observers inside are undoubtedly peering out to look at it. Cirrate octopuses like this…
Read MoreIceberg Alley
A large iceberg breaks away from the Helheim Glacier and floats among slabs of pack ice in Sermilik Fjord along the southeastern coast of Greenland. The glacier, about 3 miles…
Read MoreWhere Hurricanes Are Born
Most Atlantic hurricanes begin to form over Africa, where hot, dry desert air meets cool, wet air over jungle regions farther south. In the seam between these high- and low-pressure…
Read MoreTaking the Helm
Friday the 13th may be unlucky for some, but it was all smooth sailing for captain Derek Bergeron as he brought the research vessel Atlantis back to homeport in Woods…
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