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Anchors 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 […]
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 […]
Read MoreAt the Cutting Edge
Home 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 […]
Read MoreScience Made Public: Fukushima Radiation
Originally published online August 21, 2012
Read MoreScience in Two Languages
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mara Freilich demonstrates how salinity affects ocean stratification and mixing at a recent symposium at WHOI. The event, “OCEANOS: WHOI en Español e Português,” […]
Read MoreAtlantis Legacy
Captain Rodolfo Jose Cattaneo of the Argentine research vessel Dr. Bernardo Houssay holds a photo of another captain who preceded him on the same ship, Arthur Dickinson Colburn, Jr. The […]
Read MoreWhat They Did This Summer
The annual poster sessons by WHOI Summer Student Fellows are just one sign that summer is over. Each August, undergraduates in the SSF program produce a poster explaining […]
Read MoreScience on Display
Ocean World View
WHOI geochemist Chris German joined a panel recently with (left to right) Robert Ballard from the University of Rhode Island, Mary Voytek from NASA, Frieder Klein from WHOI, and […]
Read MoreMulticore Mission
Deck crew and scientists deploy a multicore from the stern of the research vessel Neil Armstrong recently. The multicore is designed to collect up to eight core samples of the seafloor, […]
Read MoreHoming in on Home
Justin Suca dives to the seafloor to install an audio recorder off the coast of the island of St. John in the Caribbean Sea. Suca, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI […]
Read MoreThe Sea Around Them
A life-size bronze statue of author, researcher, and environmental advocate Rachel Carson seems to be watching as the research vessel Altantis returned to Woods Hole recently. Carson worked for […]
Read MoreArctic, Top to Bottom
This oceanographic tool— a Van Veen grab sampler—collects seafloor sediments. It’s probably not the first thing you might expect to find on a research cruise led by a physical […]
Read MoreVent Convention
About 160 scientists and researchers from around the world participated in the 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems (CBE6) at WHOI recently. The event marked the 40th anniversary of […]
Read MoreA History of Breaking New Ground
Bostwick H. “Buck” Ketchum (left) poses on a bulldozer in 1962 at the groundbreaking for WHOI’s Laboratory for Marine Sciences, later named for Alfred Redfield. At the time, Read More
Lab Work
Members of this year’s class of Ocean Science Journalism Fellows spent some time on a beach near WHOI collecting samples to look at the microbiome of the coastal ocean. The […]
Read MoreCoral Chemistry
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Chawalit “Net” Charoenpong teaches WHOI Summer Student Fellow Brooke Rasina to measure the amount of nitrogen in coral skeleton samples using a laboratory instrument […]
Read MoreTaking Attendance
Scientific studies often start with the basics—in this case, taking stock of what’s out there in the environment. This spring and summer, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer and guest […]
Read MoreDrawing Science From the Sea
Pioneering marine biologist Henry Bryant Bigelow served as the founding director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1939. Almost three decades earlier, when Bigelow was an undergraduate […]
Read MoreScience in Their Sights
The Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science (GOES) Institute brings a group of girls to WHOI during the summer before they begin sixth grade, as well as a teacher […]
Read MoreWith a Few Grains of Salt
Geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, stands on the deck of WHOI’s first research vessel, Atlantis, holding a mechanism to time the release of seismic equipment from the seafloor so that it […]
Read MoreFoundational Strengths
In 1956 Columbus Iselin (right) signed on for a second tour of duty as WHOI’s director, succeeding Edward Smith (left). Iselin came to WHOI to captain the Institution’s […]
Read MoreMany Languages, One Ocean
Corals, coral health, and the threats facing reefs worldwide will be just a few of the items on the agenda at a new conference tomorrow at WHOI. “Oceanos: WHOI en […]
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