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Women on the Sea
WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue (left) gets ready to guide an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) into the water off the deck of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. Donohue led…
Read MoreRock Grab
A pilot inside the submersible Alvin uses one of the vehicle’s manipulator arms to pick up some unusual geological samples: popping rocks. WHOI scientists collected them in 2016, on this…
Read MoreIn-the-Field Experience
Ithaca College senior Cynthia Becker (left) helps WHOI microbial ecologist Amy Apprill collect a water sample off the southern coast of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Apprill uses…
Read MoreTracking Salt Marsh Carbon
WHOI scientists are studying this Waquoit Bay salt marsh to better understand the role wetlands play in storing carbon and exporting it to the coastal ocean. Here, research assistant Kate Morkeski (right)…
Read MoreFinding Life in Whale Breath
The 96-well micro-titre plate is a standard piece of laboratory equipment used to hold small amounts of liquid samples for testing. This particular plate was put to a decidedly non-standard…
Read MoreMeasuring Salty Seas
WHOI senior engineering assistant Ben Pietro oversees a deployment of yellow “hardhats” on the R/V Revelle during a 2016 expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, where some of the highest rainfall rates…
Read MoreCommunicating Under Ice
A lone buoy sits atop Arctic sea ice in the Canadian Basin—a yellow dot in a vast field of white. Suspended in the water below the buoy, a beacon sends…
Read MoreJar of Jelly
A small jellyfish sits in a beaker in the icebreaker Polarstern‘s shipboard lab. On an expedition in October 2016 to the Arctic Ocean, scientists and engineers from WHOI’s Deep Subergence…
Read MoreBlue Holes and Hurricanes
The dark blue patch in the bottom right of this aerial shot of Discovery Bay, Jamaica, is a “blue hole.” These large sinkholes formed as caves on land during the…
Read MoreFollow the Turtles
Kara Dodge, a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI, tags a leatherback turtle during a 2016 expedition in Vineyard Sound. Dodge and WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya are the brains and muscle behind TurtleCam, an initiative they…
Read MoreIsland in the Stream
Jarvis Island is a tiny dot in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean right on the equator. This uninhabited 1¾-square-mile island rises barely 20 feet out of the ocean.…
Read MoreAward-Winning Scientists
WHOI emeritus scientists Jack Whitehead (left) and Stan Hart conduct a geophysical fluid dynamics lab experiment in 1991. They inject a flow of light syrup (dyed blue) into a tank…
Read MorePacked for the Ice Pack
Twin Otter planes are packed full of buoys, cables, and other equipment for flights from Banks Island north of Canada onto the Arctic Ocean ice pack. The planes carry 2,000…
Read MoreOil Collectors
WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy and colleagues have been collecting samples of oil washed up on beaches during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ever since the spill began, and archiving…
Read MoreGreeting New Arrivals
WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer checks for new growth on monitoring plates she has hung off a dock in Eel Pond. She’s looking for barnacles, hydroids, and other small but…
Read MoreStarry Seafloor
Starfish and shrimp graze on a microbial mat on a decaying giant sponge near the summit of Karasik Seamount beneath the Arctic Ocean. The scene was filmed during an expedition in…
Read MoreRainfall Prediction
New research on the global water cycle by WHOI scientists Laifang Li, Ray Schmitt, and Caroline Ummenhofer have found links between saltier regions in the Atlantic Ocean in the spring…
Read MoreFrom Easter Island to Pito Deep
The research vessel Atlantis stops at Easter Island on its way to Pito Deep, a massive undersea canyon that extends more than four miles below the ocean surface. An international…
Read MoreThe Next Mining Frontier?
Hydrothermal vents deep on the seafloor spew chemical-rich fluids that sustain lush communities of deep-sea life. They also form rich deposits of valuable minerals, including metals and rare-earth elements used…
Read MoreWhale of a Web
Tomorrow is World Whale Day. WHOI post-doctoral researcher Randelle Bundy took this photo of an orca during a cruise off the coast of Antarctica to look at something on the…
Read MoreFilter Feeders
Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma samples oysters at a farm site in Pleasant Bay in Orleans, Mass. Towns on Cape Cod are looking increasingly to shellfish for…
Read MoreInside A New Communications System
WHOI research engineer Lee Freitag, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, displays the electronics that is part of a long-range sound-based communication and navigation system that he and a team of…
Read MoreFine Fellow
Former WHOI Summer Student Fellow and current MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Benjamin Urann (left) and his mentor, WHOI geologist Henry Dick, examine slabs cut from rocks collected during a…
Read MoreDigging Up the Past
Divers excavate artifacts during ongoing excavations of a ship that sank around 65 B.C. off the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea. In August 2016, archaeologists and technical…
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