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Taking the Helm

Taking 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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Ready, Set, Research!

Ready, Set, Research!

Partnership Education Program (PEP) student Kayla Jones (left) and guest student Hadley Clark geared up in the summer of 2017 to collect startlet sea anemones in Great Sippewissett Marsh, a…

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Food for Giants

Food for Giants

Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, often reaching 70 to 90 feet—the length of two school buses. But when it comes to food, these giant marine mammals rely…

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Ahoy, Alvin!

Ahoy, Alvin!

WHOI able-bodied seaman Raul Martinez and SSSG technician Allison Heater prepare the human-occupied vehicle Alvin for a dive in March 2014. They communicate with the sub’s pilot through a sound-powered…

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Fierce-Looking Fish

Fierce-Looking Fish

The ocean’s twilight zone teems with life. This little-known part of the ocean—200 to 1,000 meters (660 to 3,300 feet) below the surface—may have more fish biomass than in the…

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Tsunami Warning System

Tsunami Warning System

Research engineer Lee Freitag and colleagues in the WHOI Acoustic Communications Group are developing a longe-range underwater sound-singalling system to warn of possible tsunamis. When a pressure sensor detects a…

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Home Together

Home Together

WHOI’s research vessels Neil Armstrong (right) and Atlantis spend most of the year at sea and are rarely in their homeport of Woods Hole, Mass., at the same time. April…

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A Top 10 Worm

A Top 10 Worm

The remarkable squidworm was discovered by WHOI scientist Larry Madin and colleagues during a 2007 expedition to explore the deep waters of the Celebes Sea in the Philippines. The squidworm was…

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Lingering Radioactivity

Lingering Radioactivity

A research team led by WHOI scientists collects samples of groundwater from a well on Enewetak Atoll, one of the tiny Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean (from left, WHOI…

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Seafloor Experiment

Seafloor Experiment

This experiment on the seafloor examined whether pumping carbon dioxide to the bottom of the ocean might affect organisms living there. That is one proposed strategy to combat the buildup…

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A-coring We Will Go

A-coring We Will Go

Long metal tubes protrude from the bow and stern of a research boat headed toward a blue hole off Long Island in the Bahamas. Scientists lower the tubes to the…

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Perils of Polar Research

Perils of Polar Research

Field safety personnel keep a careful eye on potentially dangerous macrofauna (also known as penguins) while WHOI biologist Sam Laney (far right) collects plankton samples at the edge of sea…

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Eroding Away

Eroding Away

Scientists have long known that mountain ranges can draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere: As rocks are exposed to the air by erosion, minerals chemically react with carbon dioxide…

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At the Rainbow’s End

At the Rainbow’s End

No pot of gold, but a large colony of king penguins can be found at the end of this rainbow. Breeding pairs and individuals form very large and dense colonies…

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Illuminating Research

Illuminating Research

A research team works by headlamps to extract sediments from tubes used to core the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. WHOI scientist Rob Sohn, who has explored hydrothermal vents on the…

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Remote Exploration

Remote Exploration

WHOI senior engineer Matt Heintz speaks with WHOI Trustees and Corporation members about major upgrades to the remotely operated deep-sea vehicle Jason. The $2.4 million upgrades were funded by the National…

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Slow and Steady

Slow and Steady

Pete Liarikos, bosun on the research vessel Neil Armstrong, signals to another crew member operating the ship’s crane to raise the crane’s load. Slowly. On the line are a pair…

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What are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

A curious Adélie penguin checks out a modified commercial quadcopter drone that researchers used along with estimations from ground counts to complete the first census of the species in the…

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Science in Rough Seas

Science in Rough Seas

Conditions can get a little rough off the coast of North Carolina in January, but that didn’t stop WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz and his team. Using an instrument called a…

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Taking the Stage

Taking the Stage

Biologist Heidi Sosik briefed WHOI volunteers last spring on the new NSF-funded Long-term Ecological Research site that she helped establish off the Northeast U.S. coast. Tonight, Sosik will present at…

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Bad to the Bone

Bad to the Bone

Look closely at this rib from a sperm whale found dead on a Nantucket Beach in 2002, and you can see a lesion—pits on the joint surface and a large…

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Tagging Ocean Giants

Tagging Ocean Giants

WHOI researcher and engineer Alex Bocconcelli searched for endangered blue whales in southern Chile’s Corcovado Bay this past winter. To track whales’ diving behavior, his team attached temporary suction-cup tags equipped…

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Fast “Flyer”

Fast “Flyer”

The NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array includes two types of observing systems: fixed moorings and mobile vehicles, such as this REMUS 600. With its powerful built-in propulsion system, a…

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A Mythic Ocean Instrument

A Mythic Ocean Instrument

WHOI scientist Benjamin Van Mooy (right) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jamie Collins flank the proof-of-concept version of an instrument called PHORCYS. Van Mooy co-developed the device to make…

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