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Tracking Fukushima Radioactivity

January 7, 2018

In the weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, WHOI geochemist Ken Buesseler organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes […]

88 Years Young

January 6, 2018

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded on this date in 1930, following the recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. The chairman of the committee, […]

Digging for Radioactivity

January 5, 2018

Former WHOI post-doctoral scientist Virginie Sanial sampled groundwater beneath beaches in Japan to look for radioactive cesium-137 from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant accident. To her surprise, she and […]

Bleached Coral

January 4, 2018

A coral at Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea shows the effects of “bleaching.” The phenomenon occurs when ocean temperatures rise and the colorful symbiotic algae hosted in coral […]

Long Haul

January 3, 2018

Crabs and shrimp investigate a cast-steel anchor for a mooring resting 125 meters below the surface at the Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory off the Massachusetts coast operated by […]

Snap Chatter

January 2, 2018

Snapping shrimp usually look something like tiny lobsters, with one front claw much larger than the other. They use their supersized appendage to make a characteristic snapping sound, which […]

Worth the Wade

January 1, 2018

Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma collects shellfish samples in Cape Cod’s Barnstable Harbor as part of a study to determine how much nitrogen they incorporate into their […]

Pioneer Turnaround

Twice each year, scientists, engineers, and technicians make three short (7-10 day) trips on the research vessel Neil Armstrong to service and replace moorings that make up the Ocean Observatories […]

Harvesting Fuels from the Sea

December 31, 2017

WHOI biologist Scott Lindell (left) stands within two large yellow trusses—key infrastructure for a commercial-scale seaweed farm in Nantucket Sound—with colleagues Cliff Goudey, Dom Manganelli, and Zack Moscicki from C.A. […]

Chile Waters

December 30, 2017

It takes a village of scientists, engineers, and ship’s crew to conduct a research expedition like this off the coast of Chile in February 2017. The expedition’s chief scientist, Read More

Clues to Past Climates

December 29, 2017

Scientists long use tubes to core sediments from the seafloor—like this one pulled from Indonesia’s Makassar Strait. The sediments contain chemical and other clues that provide a historical snapshot of […]

Glider Entry

December 28, 2017

A Spray glider enters the water off the coast of Miami in September 2017, days before the arrival of Hurricane Irma. The glider flew back and forth across the current […]

Setting Out

December 27, 2017

A view from the bow deck of the 60-foot coastal research vessel Tioga. Traveling at speeds of up to 20 knots, Tioga is a speedy, sturdy workhorse for marine research […]

Fire on the Water

December 26, 2017

Natural gas piped up from a severed wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is flared off by a ship during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Responders had to […]

Heavy Lifting

December 25, 2017

WHOI’s Mooring Operations and Engineering Group leader, John Kemp (second from right), and Senior Engineering Assistant Jim Ryder (left, red hardhat) recover a reel stand from off the starboard […]

Merry Christmas 2017

December 24, 2017

Christmas tree worms, named for their resemblance to decorated holiday trees, are tiny, segmented worms that grow slowly and live up to four decades in a single location once they […]

Testing the Waters

December 23, 2017

Elisabeth Boles (left), an undergraduate at MIT, and Kama Thieler, Undergraduate Programs Coordinator at WHOI, measure nitrate levels in a seawater sample. The hands-on lesson was part of an Elements of Modern […]

Summer Sentinel

December 22, 2017

MIT undergraduate student Zach Duguid spent the summer of 2017 working in a lab run by WHOI scientist Rich Camilli. As a Summer Student Fellow, Duguid focused on […]

Glacial Torrent

December 21, 2017

In 2012, 98 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet‘s surface area melted for several days, sending torrents of meltwater down glaciers near the coast. Rising meltwaters and icebergs also […]

Getting to the Core

December 20, 2017

Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay (left) and Katelyn Rainville, two students in the Semester at WHOI (SAW) program, learn about using a gravity corer, a basic piece of oceanographic equipment used to sample sediment layers at […]

A Mooring Under Ice

December 19, 2017

Changes in the fresh water flowing from the Arctic region, through Hudson Strait, and into the North Atlantic can affect ocean circulation and climate. Fresh water (blue) is less dense […]

Yellowstone Hot Spot

Millions of visitors to Yellowstone National Park marvel at its colorful pools, bubbling springs, and steaming geysers and fumaroles. What they may not appreciate is that these features are just […]

Aquaculture Master Class

December 18, 2017

WHOI biologist Scott Lindell (far right) and research assistant David Bailey (center) traveled to Morocco recently, where they worked with members of the National Agency for the Development […]