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Eye in the Skies
A modified quadcopter drone gave WHOI researchers and colleagues a bird’s-eye view and computer-automated counts of a new “supercolony” of more than 1.5 million Adelie penguins in the Danger Islands—a…
Read MoreHumpback Health
The microbes on a whale’s skin could provide clues to its health. In a recent study, WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill collected skin samples from humpback whales in the North Atlantic,…
Read MoreToo Heavy? Use A Sled.
WHOI engineers Rick Krishfield (right) and Kris Newhall take part of an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) for a sled ride in Resolute Bay, Canada, before deploying it on an Arctic Ocean…
Read MoreEyes on Geobiology
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julia Middleton took this photo of her sister during a trip to the Grand Canyon, but her eyes were on the canyon walls. Formations like…
Read MoreBreaking Down Bulkheads
The history of women at sea on WHOI ships began quietly on April 8, 1952, when the husband-and-wife team of Harvard biologists Barbara Lawrence and William Schevill, who was a…
Read MoreBombs Beneath the Waves
Divers from VRHabilis recover an unexploded munition off South Beach on Martha’s Vineyard in 2009. In the 1940s and 1950s, the U.S. Navy and Air Force conducted military exercises in…
Read MoreNextGEN Innovation
WHOI machinist and resident facilitator D.C. Collasius (left) and Judson Poole, an engineer assistant, at work in the Dunkworks Lab—a state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping center that opened its doors last summer. The Center…
Read MoreStudents at Sea
Graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program went on the first orientation cruise aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong in September 2017, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz. For…
Read MoreBay Watch
WHOI researcher Jennie Rheuban led a study showing that warmer water temperatures are fueling an increase in algae growth in Buzzards Bay, Mass. The study used data compiled over twenty…
Read MoreLeading the Way
The Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) at WHOI was recently chosen by the Massachusetts TechHUB Caucus to receive a NextGEN award, which recognizes tech firms and organizations that are leading…
Read MoreHook, Line, and Mooring
Crew members aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer recover a subsurface flotation sphere of a Global Array mooring off the coast of Argentina. The subsurface moorings have sensors that…
Read MoreSeafloor Jigsaw Puzzle
In 1974, Project FAMOUS (French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study) would take humans to explore the seafloor for the first time, using the human-occupied submersible Alvin. To reconnoiter the target area on a mid-ocean…
Read MoreOil Spill Forensics
When an oil spill occurs, WHOI marine geochemist Chris Reddy often flies to the spill site to collect oil samples. In this case, Reddy only had to walk down the street from…
Read MoreDigging Into the Ocean’s Past
Last September, WHOI paleoceanographer Lloyd Keigwin led an expedition to the Azores in the North Atlantic to study the geologic history of ocean currents. To do that, the scientists and…
Read MoreThe Jetyak
Here’s a new addition to the fleet of oceanographic vehicles: the Jetyak. It was developed by WHOI scientists Peter Traykovski and Hanu Singh, who adapted a commercially available gas-powered kayak.…
Read MoreThrough the Looking Glass
WHOI biologist Nancy Copley (right) offers hands-on instruction on oceanographic sampling methods to undergraduates Craig Dawes from the New York City College of Technology and Jeanette Gray from Unity College.…
Read MoreStressed to a Fault
The island of Haiti is cut by the Enriquillo fault, the border between two of Earth’s tectonic plates—the Caribbean Plate, moving generally eastward, and the Gonave Microplate, moving westward. In…
Read MoreA QuadPod
WHOI engineer Kevin Manganini heads toward Martha’s Vineyard aboard the research vessel Discovery to deploy this undersea instrument, called a QuadPod. WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski is leading research to investigate…
Read MoreOver the Bounding Main
In blustery weather, technicians and scientists aboard the research vessel Endeavor recover an instrument called a CTD from waters south of Cape Cod in February 2018. The cruise was part…
Read MoreUndersea Volcano
This high-resolution map shows the seafloor topography of the caldera of the Havre volcano on the seafloor off the coast of New Zealand, which erupted in 2012. It was the…
Read MoreThe Splice Is Right
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue splices a line on the research vessel Neil Armstrong during a voyage from Woods Hole to a Global Array site in the Irminger Sea. The…
Read MoreSunrise Scientific Cruise
The sun rises off the bow off the research vessel Neil Armstrong during an expedition in the North Atlantic in September 2017 led by WHOI paleoceanographer Lloyd Keigwin. Scientists and…
Read MoreScientist in Training
The Semester at WHOI program gives juniors and seniors interested in science, math, and engineering the opportunity to come to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to do their own ocean-related research project.…
Read MoreWell-traveled Name
A work crew fits a boom to the new mizzen mast of the research vessel Atlantis in this undated WHOI Archives photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis…
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