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The 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Read MoreEyes on the Deep
During the austral summer of 2016, WHOI scientists Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald joined the crew of the research vessel R/V Roger Revelle and traveled north from Antarctica to […]
Read MoreWomen of the Ocean
WHOI post-doctoral investigator Kara Dodge (left) and engineer Amy Kukulya made a series of trips this fall to track and film sea turtles using technology based on the Read More
Heavy Water
During the austral summer of 2016, WHOI scientists Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald traveled to Antarctica to study a physical ocean process known as Antarctic Bottom Water […]
Read MoreTo Boldly Go
The hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereid Under Ice (HROV NUI) returns from a dive to the deck of the icebreaker Polarstern in October of last year. WHOI senior scientist […]
Read MoreNet Work
WHOI Summer Student Fellow, Sara Hamilton, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ellie Bors, and WHOI lab assistant Julie Pringle (left to right) collect river herring specimens in a local […]
Read MoreWhere Currents Collide
In 1973, a string of mooring floats goes over the fantail of the WHOI research vessel Chain during the Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE). Conceived by renowned physical oceanographer […]
Read MoreNereid Under Ice video montage
Alvin’s Legacy Runs Deep
On June 5, 1964, the Human Occupied Vehicle Alvin was commissioned at the WHOI dock, in a ceremony attended by hundreds eagerly anticipating what the submersible would accomplish over […]
Read MoreDance Against Guff
This year, as in years past, members of the WHOI staff joined with Falmouth High School students and local videographer Brian Switzer to speak out against bullying in the annual […]
Read MoreArctic Sound Duct
WHOI engineers led by Lee Freitag have developed and tested a long-distance communications system that would transmit and receive signals under Arctic Ocean sea ice. They exploited a […]
Read MoreDeep Science
WHOI geologist Adam Soule looks out of the pilot’s porthole on the human-occupied submersible Alvin during a dive near the mid-Atlantic Ridge in 2016. Soule, who is also the chief […]
Read MoreBoundary Conditions
At the ocean surface, heat and energy is exchanged between the air above and the water below. Every day, the sun rises and warms a thin layer of surface water. […]
Read MoreBranching Out
In two months, young kelp less than 1 millimeter long (left) will grow nearly one foot (right) and, in six months, will be over six feet and ready for harvest. […]
Read MoreCorals Reveal Past Climate
WHOI paleoclimatologist Konrad Hughen studies the history of Earth’s changing climate—using corals. The tiny living coral animals, known as polyps, lay down a new layer of calcium carbonate […]
Read MoreBreaking the Ice
When the WHOI-operated research vessel R/V Atlantis (right) docked in Manzanillo, Mexico, at the end of December, to prepare for its current cruise to explore the Pito Deep, it […]
Read MoreVince’s Cross
George Vince’s cross is a popular destination for visitors to McMurdo Station, the U.S. research base in Antarctica, and New Zealand’s Scott Base. MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student […]
Read MoreTower of Power
Undersea Acoustics
The marks on this figure are acoustic traces, the visual representations of underwater sounds recorded at sea sometime around 1960. Sounds such as these interfered with the U.S. Navy’s ability […]
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