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Organelle Snatchers
WHOI postdoctoral fellow Holly Moeller investigated a curious single-celled marine organism with a remarkable ability to behave both like an animal and a plant. The organism, called Mesodinium […]
Read MoreScientist Don Anderson Honored
WHOI Senior Scientist Don Anderson (center) recently received one of WHOI’s highest honors, the Bostwick H. Ketchum Award, in recognition of his dedicated and pioneering research on Read More
Cone of Sound
WHOI’s newest research vessel Neil Armstrong is among the first ships in the U.S. research fleet outfitted with a EK80 sonar system. Like a fish-finder, it emits sound […]
Read MoreWHOI and World War II
Al Woodcock (left) and an unidentified colleague test a device used to study the effectiveness of smoke screens to protect troops during beach landings in World War II. Woodcock […]
Read MoreDivers in the Midst
In February 2017, WHOI’s Dive Operations Manager Edward O’Brien (right) and visiting diver Giorgio Caramanna work in murky 39-degree water south of Martha’s Vineyard to deploy an instrument for […]
Read MoreBrave New World
The bow of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy plows a path through sea ice in the Beaufort Sea. Evidence of Earth’s changing climate is especially visible in the […]
Read MoreNew Beginnings
On June 7th, WHOI Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jim Yoder will preside over the 2017 graduate reception for the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Ocean Science […]
Read MoreDeep-Sea Circulation
WHOI engineer Brian Hogue assembles a new aluminum frame around a Nobska MAVS-4 acoustic current meter. The frame helps to minimize turbulence around the current meter once it is […]
Read MoreUniting for the Ocean
The president of the United Nations General Assembly, the Honorable Peter Thomson, recently toured WHOI and met with WHOI officials to discuss the UN Ocean Conference on June 5-9. WHOI […]
Read MoreWhere Plastic Went
Surface currents flow clockwise in the North Atlantic Ocean, forming the circular pattern called the North Atlantic subtropical gyre (black contour line). In 2010, scientist Kara Lavender Law of the […]
Read MoreA Buried Past
Packing for Sea
WHOI engineering assistant Cody Meissner packed synthetic line in the WHOI Rigging Shop recently for a deployment, scheduled for autumn 2017, of an Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Array Read More
Eye on the Storm
Hurricane season in the North Atlantic begins on June 1, which means scientists are once again preparing for any opportunity to study large storms. One of the key […]
Read MoreHolding It Together
WHOI engineering assistant Chris Basque splices wires from an electromechanical (EM) chain—the large black rubber tube—to a black-and-blue coiled “pigtail” cable. This EM chain is part of a surface mooring […]
Read MoreHappy as a Clam
Few things make a deep-sea biologist like Tim Shank happier than obtaining samples of organisms from a hydrothermal vent site on the seafloor. These giant clams were retrieved […]
Read MoreSeafloor Warp and Woof
An autonomous underwater vehicle called ABE—for Autonomous Benthic Explorer—systematically “flew” over the seafloor on the volcanic Mid-Atlantic Ridge, midway between Africa and South America, photographing the ocean bottom. […]
Read MoreShrimp and Mussel Stew
Shrimp swarms and abundant mussels populate the Logatchev hydrothermal vent field about 3,000 meters (more than 9,800 feet) deep on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, about halfway between the Caribbean Sea […]
Read MoreWhales Are Where?
WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner and acoustic analyst Julianne Gurnee of the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center review data received from a whale monitoring buoy outside New York Harbor. […]
Read MoreBad Sign on a Good Beach
WHOI, Hollywood, and the Boston Pops
Longtime WHOI employee Dick Edwards, a Navy-trained explosives expert, wires dynamite into the mouth of the mechanical shark used in “Jaws,” the 1975 classic movie about a terrifying Read More
A Cold Winter Dive
On a midwinter dive, visiting diver Giorgio Caramanna had to wear gloves to re-install an instrument called the Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) at WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal […]
Read MoreA Slice of the Ocean
During a visit to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, two future ocean scientists watch a demonstration of how salinity affects the density of water. Higher salinity makes water denser. […]
Read MoreNeil Armstrong Takes New York
The research vessel Neil Armstrong, shown here working off the North Carolina coast on the Processes driving Exchange at Cape Hatteras (PEACH) project, will participate in Fleet Week in New York City […]
Read MoreLife Below the Waterline
WHOI biologists Peter Wiebe (standing), Joel Llopiz (left) and Chrissy Hernandez, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, watch as data from sensors on the hull of R/V Neil Armstrong scroll […]
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