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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…
Read MoreCoral 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…
Read MoreWindow 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…
Read MoreShip’s Shape
In December 2013, workers at the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Wash., joined two sections of hull to begin shaping WHOI’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong. Over the following…
Read MoreNorthward, Ho
WHOI research engineer Casey Machado from the Deep Submergence Laboratory gently lowered what was then the group’s newest vehicle, Nereid Under Ice (NUI), into a test pool in 2015. The hybrid…
Read MoreA Well-traveled Hat
The ocean gained a powerful voice recently when Peter Thomson was appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to be the first special envoy for the oceans. In his previous position…
Read MoreHeave-ho
Crew members aboard WHOI’s original research vessel Atlantis, which supported oceanographic research from 1931 to 1964, work together to hoist the ship’s anchor. In those days, the task was time…
Read MoreEyes On High
Bosun Patrick Hennessy watched a dock crew unmoor R/V Atlantis as the ship prepared to leave Woods Hole recently. As bosun, Hennessy is responsible for deck and over-the-side operations on…
Read MoreAdvanced Technology, Advanced Research
WHOI Associate Scientist Elizabeth Kujawinski (right) and research specialist Melissa Kido Soule acquaint themselves with a new mass spectrometer in Kujawinski’s lab. The two have used similar technology in the…
Read MoreTesting Transmissions
This summer, WHOI robotics and acoustics researcher Erin Fischell (right) used autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) called Bluefin SandSharks to record sounds in Ashumet Pond, Falmouth. Before deploying the lightweight, bright…
Read MoreChemistry at Sea
WHOI research associate Leah Houghton works in the main science lab of the research vessel Neil Armstrong on a cruise off the southern tip of Greenland this summer. Houghton was…
Read MoreTracking a Swimming Squid
WHOI guest investigator Francesco Caruso, biologist Aran Mooney, and research specialist Alex Bocconcelli (left to right) work with a longfin squid in a tank at WHOI’s Environmental Systems Laboratory. Not…
Read MoreOcean Observations
Research vessel Neil Armstrong bosun Pete Liarikos keeps a watchful eye on small boat operations during recovery of a surface buoy at the Global Irminger Sea Array of the Ocean…
Read MoreAquaculture on Cape Cod
Woods Hole Sea Grant director and WHOI marine chemist Matt Charette pulls a CTD onto the fantail of research vessel Tioga during a summer field trip for members of the…
Read MoreGone But Not Forgotten
WHOI biologist Lauren Mullineaux presented the first Diane Poehls Adams Early Career award to Camila Negrão Signori at the 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems, recognizing Signori’s research in microbiology…
Read MoreA Slice of Science
The 2017 WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellows listen as physical oceanographer Magdalena Andres describes one of the many scientific instruments she uses in her research: a pressure sensor equipped inverted…
Read MoreTrapping Carbon
WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (foreground left) observes as research associate Steve Pike (center left) and a crewmember of the U.K. research vessel RSS Discovery prepare to deploy a sediment trap into…
Read MoreReady, Set, Record
WHOI robotics and acoustics researcher Erin Fischell (right) prepares to launch an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in Ashumet Pond, Falmouth, while MIT-WHOI Joint Program student EeShan Bhatt (center) and WHOI…
Read MoreLine Out
WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group member Meghan Donohue keeps an eye on the mooring line as she leads recovery of a Global Surface Mooring during a recent R/V Neil…
Read MoreThings Got Better
In 1930, the newly established Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution accepted a $175,000 bid by Burmeister & Wain Ltd., of Copenhagen to build the steel-hulled ketch Atlantis. In July 1931, Atlantis…
Read MoreAnchors Aweigh
It’s a tradition to have a band on the WHOI dock whenever a ship leaves for, or returns from, a notable voyage. In the past, a brass band has helped…
Read MoreNeil Armstrong in New York
R/V Neil Armstrong made a rare appearance in New York City this spring as part of Fleet Week 2017. The ship paraded up the Hudson River and docked for two…
Read MoreAt the Cutting Edge
Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito (right) cuts the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony of WHOI’s DunkWorks facility earlier this summer. Helping her was Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) Deputy Director…
Read MoreHome Port
It’s not a common occurence for all three of WHOI’s research vessels to be docked at the WHOI pier. But on this day, R/V Neil Armstrong (background), R/V Atlantis (foreground right) and the smaller…
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