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Tailing a Fast Squid
This sleek squid sports a futuristic tail ornament. WHOI biologist Aran Mooney and collaborators at Stanford University and the University of Michigan developed a way to attach data-logging tags to…
Read MoreSolving a Methane Mystery
An enduring ocean mystery may finally be solved. For decades, scientists have known that the ocean’s surface waters are full of methane gas. But they didn’t know where it came…
Read MoreDigging into Past Climate
WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly extracts a tube of sediment from a Cape Cod marsh as participants in the Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship look on. Sediment in a marsh builds…
Read MoreEngineering a Deep-sea Search
After WHOI assisted the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the U.S. Coast Guard in locating the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the sunken cargo ship El Faro, NTSB Chairman…
Read MoreReaching New Heights
Mooring technician Meghan Donohue says that when she chose a job that few women do, she knew there would be challenges. But she wanted a career working with scientists at…
Read MoreSomething Old, Something new
WHOI’s newest research vessel and first building serve as a fitting image on this 87th anniversary of the Instituion’s founding. R/V Neil Armstrong arrived in Woods Hole in the spring of 2016…
Read MoreSwimming Upstream
Researchers often look to the natural world for solutions to engineering challenges and other complex human problems, a technique known as biomimetics. WHOI guest investigator and 2005 MIT-WHOI Joint Program…
Read MoreMummified Microbes
Scientists have found evidence that microbes thrive deep below the seafloor. They are sustained by chemicals that are produced when seawater percolates down and reacts with rocks found in Earth’s…
Read MoreSafety in Space and Sea
When NASA’s Aviation Safety Officers and engineers set out to re-evaluate the agency’s vehicles and systems, they chose the WHOI Alvin operations group as a benchmark—the first non-aviation program selected…
Read MoreCreature from the Canyon
Photographed in a drop of water, this shrimp-like crustacean is tiny—about the size of a fingernail. It comes from Barrow Canyon, a seafloor feature in the Arctic Ocean that’s particularly…
Read MoreRunning into 2017
If you think it’s difficult to hold to your resolution to get more exercise in the New Year, imagine what it’s like to do so in Antarctica. MIT-WHOI Joint Program…
Read MoreThe New Year’s Swing
This image of researchers swinging over newly formed pancake ice in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, is one of 12 beautiful photographs featured in the WHOI 2017 wall calendar. The images, taken…
Read MoreTOTEM Project
By Lonny Lippsett :: Originally published online October 18, 2013
Read MoreGood Morning, Jason!
Underwater vehicle pilot Akel Kevis-Stirling and WHOI engineering assistants Chris Judge and Ben Tradd, also a pilot (left to right), pause for a pre-dawn photo with the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason. The…
Read MoreIce Capade
WHOI researchers Kris Newhall (left) and Rick Krishfield (right), and Brian Mackenzie, crew member of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent, set up an ice-tethered profiler to collect…
Read MoreWelcome to Atlantis Bank
Atlantis Bank formed on the seafloor as the Southwest Indian mid-ocean ridge spread apart along a tectonic fault (top). The lower-crust gabbro rock that formed Atlantis Bank was slowly pushed…
Read MoreWhale Songs in Motion
Humpback whales are legendary for their long, haunting songs, which can travel thousands of miles through the ocean. Songs and other sounds contain pressure waves that push and pull on…
Read MoreDecked Out in Yellow
R/V Neil Armstrong‘s deck was awash in yellow on a recent cruise to the tempestuous Irminger Sea off Greenland. Bosun Kyle Covert (top left), WHOI Research Specialist Dan Torres (top…
Read MoreMerry Christmas Tree Worm
Christmas tree worms, named for their resemblance to decorated holiday trees, are tiny, segmented worms that grow slowly and live up to four decades in a single location once they…
Read MoreSanta at Sea
During a pair of linked research cruises on R/V Atlantis that spanned Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year, the crew and science team left a traditional enticement of cookies and milk…
Read MoreScience by Drone
WHOI biologist Michael Moore is leading a collaborative project to study the health of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales using drones. SR3 researcher Holly Fearnbach (left) and NOAA researcher…
Read MoreIn the Middle of It All
The expansive poster hall is a staple of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held annually in December. The meeting, which draws approximately 25,000 attendees each year, is the…
Read MoreImaging a Hidden World
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis spearheaded the development of this instrument, called a Video Plankton Recorder, to capture images of the ocean’s multitudes of tiny, unseen life forms: plankton. From the…
Read MoreDeep-sea Snapshot
This may look like a bucket of beach sand, but it’s actually a pristine sample of the ocean floor from 1,300 feet below the surface. During a 2003 expedition to…
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