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Seismic 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Read MoreA Parade of Ships
A U.S. Navy Yard Patrol (YP) boat passes the Navy-owned, WHOI-operated R/V Neil Armstrong as it prepares to dock during the Fleet Week Parade of Ships in […]
Read MoreA-Frame Job
Breaking the Surface
A humpback whale surfaces in the icy water off Antarctica, near the U.S. icebreaker Lawrence M. Gould (left). Tyler Rohr, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in […]
Read MoreThe Cable Guy
The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason has had a storied career: it has located hydrothermal vent fields, captured footage of the deepest explosive erupting volcano, and rescued seismic […]
Read MoreI See a Purple Sea Cucumber
A purple elasipodida holothurian crawls on the seafloor more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface at the base of a seamount off the Galápagos Islands. In August 2015, an […]
Read MoreControl Group
A Full Deck
The research vessel Neil Armstrong heads to the Ocean Observatories Initiative Coastal Pioneer Array about 90 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard. Every six months, WHOI engineers, scientists, and crew […]
Read MoreChemical Evidence
WHOI research assistant Paul Henderson watches over a water sampling station in the Northwest Territories, Canada. MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Lauren Kipp led the 2016 expedition to study processes […]
Read MoreA Break in the Action
Bosun Pete Liarikos raises a fist to stop the action during the deployment of a multifunction node (MFN) from the deck of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The gray metal […]
Read MoreTracking Toxic Invaders
Clinging jellyfish such as this from the coastal ocean near Vladivostok, Russia, are known for toxic stings that cause a wide range of symptoms—severe pain, difficulty breathing, and even hallucinations. […]
Read MoreHoming in on Reef Homes
Justin Suca holds a translucent young mantis shrimp off the Caribbean island of St. John where he does field work. Suca, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program […]
Read MoreCall of the Wild
An Atlantic white-sided dolphin jumps alongside the research vessel Neil Armstrong off the Massachusetts coast. These animals spend most of their lives in deep waters but are known to strand […]
Read More24/7 Science at Sea
This buoy is part of a Coastal Surface Mooring, one of the ten scientific moorings in the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Wind turbines and […]
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