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Hurricane History
Alexandra Labella, a guest student in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, collects a sample of sediments cored from a blue hole in Caicos Island. Blue holes are sinkholes that formed […]
Read MoreHappy Independence Day
R/V Neil Armstrong second mate Mike Singleton finishes hoisting the colors on the ship’s mast during a recent port call in New York City for Fleet Week 2017. In […]
Read MoreGirls Go for Engineering
Very few women go into engineering, but WHOI scientist and engineer Anna Michel wants to change that. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Michel created the Girls […]
Read MoreAn Island in the Lab
William von Arx was among dozens of WHOI scientists who studied the impacts of U.S. military nuclear weapons testing in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Two nulcear […]
Read MoreInnovation in a Blue Economy
How moored profilers work
Moored profilers travel up and down a mooring cable every five days, measuring seawater properties. (Animation by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
By Michael Carlowicz :: Originally published online October 31, […]
Read MorePopping Rocks
A sample of seafloor lava, magnified 100 times, shows tiny, silver-colored glass vesicles trapped within the rock. The vesicles contain gases from deep inside the Earth, where magma forms before […]
Read MoreYakking About Jetyaks
WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski (left) shows WHOI Trustees and Corporation members his Jetyak, an autonomous surface vehicle that he uses to explore and map coastal topography. Traykovski has […]
Read MoreAlert to Strandings
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Sam Walkes (center) helps engineer Alex Bocconcelli (right) prepare an underwater recording device for deployment in Wellfleet Harbor, as assistant harbormaster John Milliken […]
Read MoreWhere Has All the Radioactivity Gone?
WHOI geochemist Matt Charette (right) collects samples of groundwater from a well on Enewetak Atoll, a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean, along with WHOI researcher Paul Henderson (left) […]
Read MoreReservation Required?
Restoff Island in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, is a biodiversity hotspot that is home to hundreds of coral reef fish species. It is also one of eight sites sampled […]
Read MoreHands of a Master
Kent Sheasley, master of R/V Neil Armstrong maneuvered his ship to the dock in New York City to begin a port call during Fleet Week 2017. As an […]
Read MoreHonoring the Graduates
WHOI held a reception on June 7, 2017, to honor 34 MIT-WHOI Joint Program who received their degrees over the past year, with thirteen attending. Front (from left): Guy Evans (holding […]
Read MoreOne Ship, Two Awards
At WHOI’s annual Employee Appreciation Celebration, the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong received the Penzance Award for “sustained exceptional performance, for outstanding representation of the WHOI spirit, and […]
Read MoreMedicine from the Sea
These resin beads are part of a process that WHOI scientists have used to search for potential chemical compounds made by microbes in the ocean, which could help combat […]
Read MoreWatch Out
During a field trip to the Ocean Science Exhibit Center, a class from the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative watches video of a great white shark as seen from REMUS […]
Read MoreAll New, All Jason
Matthew Heintz gives WHOI Trustees and Corporation members a tour of Jason, the remotely operated deep-sea vehicle. Heintz, the program manager for the Jason operations group at WHOI, […]
Read MoreLand-Sea Connections
Guest investigator Kristina Brown, right, and research assistant Kate Morkeski troubleshoot a new dissolved inorganic carbon sensor in the lab of WHOI marine chemist Aleck Wang. In the Arctic, […]
Read MoreHeading Home at Dusk
WHOI’s coastal vessel R/V Tioga steams south through the Cape Cod Canal with Sagamore Bridge in the background, after a day working along the Massachusetts coast. Designed for […]
Read MoreWhat Would the Ocean Say?
If the ocean could talk, would you hear its call? On World Oceans Day 2017, WHOI joined world leaders and representatives from business, academia, and NGOs at the UN for […]
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Collaboration
Dave Ralston (right) and Porter Hoagland talk with WHOI Trustees about New York’s Hudson River. The expansion of the Panama Canal has led to the dredging of New York Harbor […]
Read MoreSettling Behavior
Marine reserves promote coral reef sustainability by preventing overfishing and increasing fish abundance and diversity. But to be effective, they need to be sized right, and in a way […]
Read MoreA Titanic Task
Monitoring the Tides
Crew on the R/V Connecticut load an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) for deployment in the Gulf of Maine to monitor for harmful algae, which can cause illnesses in […]
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