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A Royal Visit

A Royal Visit

WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder (middle) presented a rare deep-sea fish—called chimaera—to Japan’s Crown Prince Akihito during a visit to WHOI back in 1953 as WHOI Director Admiral Smith (left) looked…

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A Minke Breakthrough

A Minke Breakthrough

During a 2012 expedition to make detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as SeaBED, researchers on board the Australian icebreaker RSV Aurora…

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A Shared Understanding

A Shared Understanding

Representatives from WHOI and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) met recently in Woods Hole to renew a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions in support of the MBLWHOI Library.…

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Tag On

Tag On

WHOI biologist Kara Dodge prepares to attach a suction cup-mounted acoustic tag to a leatherback turtle recently. The tag allows a specially outfitted REMUS 100 TurtleCam autonomous underwater vehicle to…

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Sink or Swim

Sink or Swim

Sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, Mass., test a remotely operated vehicle they built in a test tank in WHOI’s Smith Laboratory. It was part of a summer…

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Octopus Antics

Octopus Antics

This photo of a Dumbo octopus, more than a mile down on the seafloor, graces the month of March in the 2018 WHOI Wall Calendar, now available for purchase at…

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On the Lookout

On the Lookout

WHOI researcher and engineer Alex Bocconcelli searched for endangered blue whales off southern Chile earlier this year. Bocconcelli led a team that used temporary suction-cup tags equipped with sensors to track whales’ diving…

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Resting Spot

Resting Spot

WHOI’s two campuses are a blend of new, sophisticated science laboratories and quaint, old houses and estates that still retain signs of their previous owners. Outside the Carriage House, which…

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Getting Their Feet Wet

Getting Their Feet Wet

New graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program boarded the research vessel Neil Armstrong for a 30-hour cruise to get their feet wet in their oceanographic careers. They were introduced…

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All Hands on Deck

All Hands on Deck

The hands of Raytheon engineer Brad Guerrero and WHOI engineers Jennifer Batryn and James Kuo (left to right) prepare a motorized profiler for deployment on the Global Irminger Sea Array in the Atlantic…

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DISCO Diver

DISCO Diver

WHOI chemist Colleen Hansel swims over a reef off the southern coast of Cuba with DISCO (diver-operated underwater analyzer of superoxide), a new sensor she developed with chemist Scott Wankel,…

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Taking the Long View

Taking the Long View

A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Martha’s…

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Researchers’ Spat

Researchers’ Spat

Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agents Joshua Reitsma and Abigail Archer help distribute bags of shell that contain oyster seed (spat) to towns for municipal shellfish propagation programs. The Woods…

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Prepare for Turbulence

Prepare for Turbulence

A radar view from the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force “Hurricane Hunter” (small white airplane icon) shows the eye of Hurricane Irma as the plane flies into the storm…

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Seafloor Surprises

Seafloor Surprises

Before the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 by scientists aboard the Alvin submersible, the deep sea was thought to be devoid of life because of the lack of sunlight.…

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An Oceanographic Pioneer

An Oceanographic Pioneer

Elizabeth (“Betty”) Bunce waits for a sediment core to come up from the seafloor aboard the research vessel Chain circa 1958. Bunce (1915-2003) was a pioneering woman oceanographer. A geophysicist interested…

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Travel Mug of Microbes

Travel Mug of Microbes

MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Weber uses a Niskin water sampling bottle to collect seawater samples from the Jardines de la Reina (Gardens of the Queen) coral reef in Cuba. The samples will help scientists…

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Thanksgiving Away from Home

Thanksgiving Away from Home

At sea, traditions that speak of home and loved ones take on greater meaning. In 1952, Capt. John Pike carved a Thanksgiving turkey in the wardroom aboard the research vessel…

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Group Effort

Group Effort

Members of the Coastal Systems Group led by Jeff Donnelly (far right) took to the high seas of Salt Pond in Falmouth, Mass., this summer to collect sediment cores from…

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Oceanography, Up Close

Oceanography, Up Close

WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (center), MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Stephan Gallagher (right), and MIT undergraduate Elisabeth Boles examine a sample of seawater full of tiny plants and animals known as…

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Sensor Check

Sensor Check

WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn prepares instruments during a recent cruise to the Irminger Sea south of Greenland. The instruments have sensors to take a wide range of measurements in the…

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Speaking From Experience

Speaking From Experience

WHOI senior scientist Amala Mahadevan delivers the keynote address at the 4th annual Society of Women in Marine Science symposium earlier this month. The theme of this year’s SWMS event…

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Team Players

Team Players

WHOI faculty and students pose for a photo during an “Elements of Modern Oceanography” class field trip on the coastal research vessel Tioga. The course, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Anthony…

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