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Listening for Whales

Listening for Whales

WHOI Biologist Mark Baumgartner recovers a robotic glider after it helped find several endangered North Atlantic right whales. The glider was equipped with a digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument developed at…

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Talking Science, At Sea

Talking Science, At Sea

WHOI scientists Scott Wankel and Adam Soule (on screen, right to left) recently participated in a public event at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York—from a ship in…

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Ready and Waiting

Ready and Waiting

A group of profiler mooring buoys stands ready for loading onto the research vessel Neil Armstrong in advance of a cruise to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array. Once…

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Classes on Deck

Classes on Deck

Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay, a student in the Semester at WHOI (SAW) program, learns to deploy and recover a CTD, a basic oceanographic instrument used to take water samples and collect data from the…

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The Future of Squid

The Future of Squid

Casey Zakroff, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, adjusts plastic cups containing squid eggs in seawater with various pH levels. Working with his Ph.D. advisor, Aran Mooney, Zakroff is…

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Dispersants in Deepwater Horizon

Dispersants in Deepwater Horizon

During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon crisis, officials made the unprecedented and controversial decision to inject more than 700,000 gallons of chemical dispersant over 67 days immediately above the severed wellhead at…

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An Engine Room Tour

An Engine Room Tour

Kent Sheasley (right), captain of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, gives a tour of the ship’s engine room to visiting journalists in the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. The…

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Declining Sea Ice

Declining Sea Ice

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy steams through “pancake” sea ice in the Arctic Ocean in October 2013. WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart led the cruise to complete a ten-year…

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Deep-Sea Camera

Deep-Sea Camera

The WHOI TowCam is a deep-sea camera system that is towed by a cable from a ship so that it flies near the seafloor and can obtain digital images, as…

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Hop Scotch on Ice

Hop Scotch on Ice

In 1978, a team of Russian scientists including WHOI senior scientist Andrey Proshutinksy (third from the right) took to the sky in a single-engine Antonov-2 biplane to observe sea ice…

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Hands-on Science

Hands-on Science

WHOI assistant scientist Erin Fischell showed visiting member of a U.S. Army youth leadership group some of the autonomous underwater vehicles she uses in her research. Fischell, who graduated from…

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Diving for Data

Diving for Data

Bosun Pete Liarikos (left) and UNOLS technician Drew Cole recover an ocean glider from the water onto research vessel Neil Armstrong on a recent trip to the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s…

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One Last Look

One Last Look

An ice-tethered profiler (ITP) takes one last look at the sky before passing through four meters of ice in the Beaufort Sea to begin a study of ocean physics, biology,…

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Another Day, Another Departure

Another Day, Another Departure

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, R/V Neil Armstrong departed Woods Hole on the first of three trips to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array 100 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.…

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Women Take the Helm

Women Take the Helm

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya spoke about her work with autonomous underwater REMUS vehicles at the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) Symposium at WHOI last fall. This year’s SWMS…

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Field Gear

Field Gear

What do you do when you have to do fieldwork on Halloween? You put your costume on early. Members of WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group did just that yesterday during a…

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Happy Hallow-Marine

Happy Hallow-Marine

A pair of anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) take shelter in a pumpkin-shaped sea anemone on a coral reef in the Red Sea. Despite their seemingly frightful home, anemonefish are immune to…

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Who’s On First?

Who's On First?

This summer, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer hung plastic panels off the WHOI pier and a dock at Eel Pond in Woods Hole, to learn what organisms would settle on…

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Hats Off

Hats Off

These air-filled glass spheres encased in a protective polyethylene “hard hat,” are used to keep mooring lines upright, taut, and off the seafloor. This string of floats, was deployed recently…

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The Way Things Were

The Way Things Were

WHOI’s Bigelow Lab on Water St. in Woods Hole, Mass., was WHOI’s first building and is named for the Institution’s first director, Henry Bryant Bigelow. The original plans called for…

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Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

Members of the lab run by WHOI chemist Matt Charette installed equipment near the city of Sendai during a trip to Northeast Japan to collect groundwater samples. Charette and WHOI colleague Ken Buesseler recently…

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Coral Investigators

Coral Investigators

Researchers Paul Henderson (left) and Luis Vasquez-Bedoya collect coral samples from a large reef in the waters off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Corals build their skeletons over time from calcium carbonate…

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Window into the Depths

Window into the Depths

Jefferson Grau inspected a viewport prior to installation on the human-occupied submersilble Alvin during a major upgrade completed in 2014. He was looking for bubbles or inclusions such as bits…

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