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Emperors in Danger
Since the 1950s, scientists have known that emperor penguins may be threatened by retreating sea ice posed by warming temperatures and other climatic changes. WHOI biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier led a team […]
Read MoreCore’s-Eye View
Yellowstone National Park attracts millions of tourists each year, drawn in part by the park’s iconic geysers, hot springs, and fumaroles. But fewer know about the hotbed of […]
Read MoreWalking on Water
WHOI research assistant Kate Morkeski and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mallory Ringham navigate a temporary causeway in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve during an exceptionally high “king tide.” […]
Read MoreSoaring and Declining Albatrosses
Yellow Nose in Yellowstone
WHOI scientists brought in underwater instruments normally used to explore the deep ocean to hunt for geothermal activity at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park. WHOI engineer […]
Read MoreStepping Up for WHOI
Members of the WHOI Board of Trustees and WHOI Senior Administration paused for a photo opportunity at the May 2017 Trustees meeting at Woods Hole Golf Club. Founded in 1930, WHOI is […]
Read MoreFish EarRings
Under a microscope, the otolith, or ear stone, of a larval fish—a river herring—shows concentric rings. Every day the fish adds a layer of calcium carbonate to their otoliths, tiny […]
Read MoreOver the Side
A team on R/V Atlantis that included WHOI scientist Jeff McGuire recently deployed one of nine bottom moorings as part of a seafloor monitoring system off of Iquique, Chile. […]
Read MoreHurricane History
Alexandra Labella, a guest student in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, collects a sample of sediments cored from a blue hole in Caicos Island. Blue holes are sinkholes that formed […]
Read MoreHappy Independence Day
R/V Neil Armstrong second mate Mike Singleton finishes hoisting the colors on the ship’s mast during a recent port call in New York City for Fleet Week 2017. In […]
Read MoreGirls Go for Engineering
Very few women go into engineering, but WHOI scientist and engineer Anna Michel wants to change that. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Michel created the Girls […]
Read MoreAn Island in the Lab
William von Arx was among dozens of WHOI scientists who studied the impacts of U.S. military nuclear weapons testing in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Two nulcear […]
Read MoreInnovation in a Blue Economy
How moored profilers work
Moored profilers travel up and down a mooring cable every five days, measuring seawater properties. (Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
By Michael Carlowicz :: Originally published online October 31, […]
Read MorePopping Rocks
A sample of seafloor lava, magnified 100 times, shows tiny, silver-colored glass vesicles trapped within the rock. The vesicles contain gases from deep inside the Earth, where magma forms before […]
Read MoreYakking About Jetyaks
WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski (left) shows WHOI Trustees and Corporation members his Jetyak, an autonomous surface vehicle that he uses to explore and map coastal topography. Traykovski has […]
Read MoreAlert to Strandings
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Sam Walkes (center) helps engineer Alex Bocconcelli (right) prepare an underwater recording device for deployment in Wellfleet Harbor, as assistant harbormaster John Milliken […]
Read MoreWhere Has All the Radioactivity Gone?
WHOI geochemist Matt Charette (right) collects samples of groundwater from a well on Enewetak Atoll, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, along with WHOI researcher Paul Henderson (left) […]
Read MoreReservation Required?
Restoff Island in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, is a biodiversity hotspot that is home to hundreds of coral reef fish species. It is also one of eight sites sampled […]
Read MoreHands of a Master
Kent Sheasley, master of R/V Neil Armstrong maneuvered his ship to the dock in New York City to begin a port call during Fleet Week 2017. As an […]
Read MoreHonoring the Graduates
WHOI held a reception on June 7, 2017, to honor 34 MIT-WHOI Joint Program who received their degrees over the past year, with thirteen attending. Front (from left): Guy Evans (holding […]
Read MoreOne Ship, Two Awards
At WHOI’s annual Employee Appreciation Celebration, the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong received the Penzance Award for “sustained exceptional performance, for outstanding representation of the WHOI spirit, and […]
Read MoreMedicine from the Sea
These resin beads are part of a process that WHOI scientists have used to search for potential chemical compounds made by microbes in the ocean, which could help combat […]
Read MoreWatch Out
During a field trip to the Ocean Science Exhibit Center, a class from the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative watches video of a great white shark as seen from REMUS […]
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