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Glider Away!
WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn assists with the launch of an ocean glider at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Coastal Pioneer Array, about 90 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. The autonomous underwater…
Read MoreFrom Whales to Microbes
WHOI scientist Amy Apprill studies a wide range of marine life—from microorganisms to whales. In recent years, she has studied bacteria living on the skin of humpback whales to gauge…
Read MoreUnexpected and Unexploded
Munitions dropped decades ago on once desolate coasts often show up today in areas that have become more developed and inhabited. WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski is investigating where unexploded ordnances…
Read MoreThe Future Face of Science and Engineering
February 11 is the United Nation’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science. For the past two years, WHOI scientist Anna Michel has brought sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle…
Read MoreAll Ahead
A.D. Colburn looks out from the bridge of the research vessel Atlantis as it left Woods Hole in October on his final trip as captain of the Global Class research vessel.…
Read MoreAn Ear in the Ocean
WHOI research engineer Rod Catanach wires a sound recorder on a coral reef off St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Justin Suca used the instrument…
Read MoreSteady As It Goes
Jim Ryder of the WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group (left) steadies the line of a wire-following profiler, part of a Global Array mooring aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B.…
Read MoreReef Research
Kan-Min of the Dongsha Atoll Research Station steers a research vessel over Dongsha’s coral reef in the South China Sea, where former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Tom DeCarlo conducted fieldwork.…
Read MoreClose Encounter
The research vessel Neil Armstrong makes a close approach to assess a surface mooring deployed in the Irminger Sea southeast of Greenland as a part of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative…
Read MoreNereid Under Ice
WHOI engineer Casey Machado created this image of Nereid Under Ice (NUI), a hybrid remotely operated vehicle designed and built by researchers in WHOI’s Deep Submergence Laboratory. NUI operates in…
Read MoreTechnology at Sea
After arriving at WHOI in 1940, the research vessel Anton Dohrn made at least 40 cruises from Maine to New Jersey, testing bathythermographs, underwater cameras, and other newly-designed instruments. Scientists…
Read MoreCorals Under Threat
A large school of bigeye trevally swim past a submarine carrying WHOI scientists descending in Cabu Pulmo National Park, home of the oldest of only three coral reefs on the…
Read MoreSearch for a Missing Sub
Argentine naval personnel saluted from the dock as the R/V Atlantis departed Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina in December 2017. Atlantis spent six weeks searching for the ARA San Juan, an Argentinian…
Read MoreFeeling the Heat
Rising water temperatures on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean will drive American lobsters farther north and away from shore, according to new study led by WHOI researcher Jennie Rheuban.…
Read MoreSeismic Activity in Yellowstone
Paris Smalls (right), a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, steadies an ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS), while WHOI engineer Tim Kane sets the anchor before it is deployed into Yellowstone…
Read MoreAn Underwater Eruption
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason lands on the seafloor to retrieve a heat flow monitor during a 2015 expedition to explore an eruption at the Havre volcano off the…
Read MoreFair or Foul
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer points out some brownish bryozoans and orange tunicates on panels she recovered from Woods Hole’s Eel Pond. Along with barnacles, sponges, and other invertebrates, these…
Read MoreThe Workhorse of the Deep
Over its 53-year history, the deep submersible Alvin has had some subtle and not-so-subtle changes made to its appearance. The original sub, shown in the late 1960s with support vessel…
Read MoreOut to Sea
A mammoth surface buoy rests on the fantail of the research vessel Neil Armstrong en route to the Irminger Sea off Greenland, where it will remain in the ocean for many months. The buoy…
Read MoreCoral Skeleton Crystals
Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Tom DeCarlo holds a vial containing aragonite, a crystal form of calcium carbonate, the mineral that reef-building corals use to build their skeletons. By manipulating…
Read MoreAn Unexpected Intrusion
In 2014, satellite imagery revealed an elongated body of warm Gulf Stream water pushing onto the edge of New England’s continental shelf toward the southwest. Scientists have seen similiar phenomena…
Read MoreA Nuclear Model
WHOI scientist Allyn Vine created this model of the Bikini Islands in the Pacific Ocean in 1946 to explore how radioactivity from an underwater explosion from a U.S. nuclear weapons…
Read MoreReady for a Big Splash
John Kemp, head of the WHOI Mooring Operations & Engineering Group, directs the deployment of a surface mooring from the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Common moorings, which use anchors and…
Read MoreSaluting the Captain
ROV Jason team members Tito Collasius (in shorts), Scott McCue (right) and Chris Judge (left) fire three shots from a cannon to honor retiring Captain A.D. Colburn’s last departure from…
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