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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…
Read MorePlaying Tag with Sharks
Whale sharks and other large fish such as rays, tuna, and swordfish roam our oceans, but we know remarkably little about them. That impedes our ability to understand their roles…
Read MoreProbing the Seafloor with Sound
To probe the seafloor, scientists send sound waves down through the ocean and seafloor and record reflected echoes with ocean bottom seismographs and hydrophones trailing behind a ship. The time…
Read MoreHelping Hand
The new Northeast Shelf Long-term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) site south of Cape Cod connects two other existing study sites: the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory and the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)…
Read MorePollution Fighters?
Researchers from WHOI Sea Grant and the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension analyzed wild and farmed oysters and quahogs to see how much nitrogen the shellfish can store in their shells…
Read MoreLittle Gems
WHOI biologist Scott Lindell examines a container of gametophytes, germinal kelp plants, being prepared for use in a combined aquaculture experiment he is conducting. In six months, the millimeter-long young…
Read MorePreparing for Recovery
Raymond Graham (right, in lifeboat) gets into position to join Ben Pietro (far right) on the surface buoy of a scientific mooring to prepare it for recovery after its 14-month…
Read MoreChanging Landscape
Tuktoyaktuk means “Land of the Caribou” in the Inuvialuit language, which explains the sculpture in the foreground, but the landscape of the Northwest Territories, Canada, is also of interest for…
Read MoreGetting in Line
WHOI engineer Christopher Griner (facing camera) and Chris Mannka, a crewmember of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, wound more than 12 kilometers (over 7 miles) of high-strength synthetic rope prior…
Read MoreEight Arms, No Ears
It’s a bird, it’s a plane … no, it’s a cirrate octopus that was spotted swimming past the viewport of the human-occupied deep-sea submersible Alvin in 1976. Cirrate octopuses have…
Read MoreHot Spots on the River
WHOI scientists used a drone equipped with a thermal imaging sensor to create this image (inset) of a section of the Coonamessett River watershed in Falmouth, Mass. The thermal image…
Read MoreFloe Jumping
John Kemp, operations leader of the WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group, leaps over melt pond in the Arctic carrying equipment to drill a hole into an ice floe to…
Read MoreSecuring the Tower
Raymond Graham and Ben Pietro of WHOI’s Upper Ocean Processes Group work to secure instruments atop a mooring buoy in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. The mooring is one of…
Read MoreA Fresh Perspective
WHOI researcher Sebastien Bigorre talks with WHOI physical oceanographer Amala Mahadevan about measurements from an underway-CTD, an instrument that measures conductivity (salinity), temperature, and depth while a ship is in…
Read MoreCoral Bleaching
This coral’s stark white color indicates that it is stressed. Corals host symbiotic algae that produce food for corals and also give corals their vibrant color. When ocean waters warm,…
Read MorePEACH-y Project
Gabriel Matthias (left) from the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and WHOI senior engineering assistant Brian Hogue guide part of a mooring into the water from the research vessel Neil Armstrong…
Read MoreInto the Cold
WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart is currently leading an international team on board the NATO research vessel Alliance to get a close-up look at a poorly understood, but critical, part…
Read MoreRest Before Work
The moon rises over calm seas the night before the deployment of the sixteenth Stratus surface mooring in May of 2017. The mooring has been maintained since 2000 by WHOI’s Upper…
Read MoreWomen of the Deep
In 1971, marine biologist Ruth Turner became the first woman to dive in WHOI’s human-occupied submersible Alvin. Turner, pictured here with Alvin Chief Pilot Ralph Hollis aboard the research vessel…
Read MoreTakes a Lickin’
This vehicle’s unassuming appearance belies the fact that it was instrumental is some of the most important undersea discoveries: finding hydrothermal vents and chemosynthetic deep-sea life in 1977 and the…
Read MoreConserving our Coasts
WHOI marine chemist Amanda Spivak studies salt marshes such as this one near Waquoit Bay in Mashpee, Mass. She is starting a project to understand how New England’s nearly century-old…
Read MoreLimited Visibility
The North Atlantic can be an inhospitable place, especially in late winter, but that is exactly when WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart needs to be there. Pickart and his international…
Read MoreHunkering Down
An Adelie penguin hunches down over its nest as icy winds whip across Cape Royds on Ross Island during a 2007 Polar Discovery expedition. Adelie penguins are sentinel species of…
Read MorePart of the Whole
WHOI engineer Korey Verhein works on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Medea prior to departure on the research vessel Atlantis recently. Medea is part of the ROV Jason system and…
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