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Friend and Foe
Superoxide, a natural toxin produced by all oxygen-breathing organisms, has long been vilified when it comes to coral health. When stressed corals produce too much of this toxin in their…
Read MorePathway to Resilience
Why are some species of fish able to adapt to pollution levels that are lethal to others? To answer that question, WHOI biologists Mark Hahn and Sibel Karchner are studying…
Read MoreUncovering Undersea Marvels
A green turtle makes its way through the diverse reef community on a seamount in the Galápagos archipelago. In 2015, an expedition led by WHOI geologist Adam Soule conducted acoustic…
Read MoreParsing Microbial Proteins
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito inspects a new mass spectrometer in his lab. He’ll use the instrument for his research in proteomics, a branch of biochemistry involving the large-scale study of…
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Eavesdropping on Whales
Retrieving a mooring off Nomans Land, an island near Martha’s Vineyard, are (from left) WHOI engineering assistants Steve Murphy and Jeff Pietro, and Tioga crew member Ian Hanley. The mooring was equipped…
Read MoreDay 1 for A2
The research vessel Atlantis II slid off the ways in Baltimore, Maryland, after being christened by WHOI biologist Mary Sears in 1962. The “A2,” as it became known, was named…
Read MoreLooking Under the Stern
Even a ship as new as R/V Neil Armstrong has to undergo periodic inspection to make sure all is well. During an ongoing period in a shipyard in Charleston, S.C., that includes…
Read MoreStatus Updates from Sharks
Camrin Braun, a student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, tracks the behavior of blue and mako sharks, apex predators that maintain oceanic diversity. First, he attaches satellite tags to sharks…
Read MoreClose but Quiet
A remotely controlled hexacopter hovers above a North Atlantic right whale in Cape Cod Bay. Researchers at WHOI and NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center are collaborating to collect samples of whale…
Read MoreTo Pito Deep
The research vessel Atlantis is currently in Easter Island, as it was in this photo in 1998, and is preparing to begin an expedition to Pito Deep with the remotely…
Read MoreTailing 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
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