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Good 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…
Read MoreTrek to the Tower
The tower in the background stands a mile south of the island of Martha’s Vineyard, and it’s helping scientists track even the tiniest changes taking place in the North Atlantic.…
Read MoreExplaining Coral Bleaching
While conducting field work in Hawaii, WHOI scientists Colleen Hansel (center) and Amy Apprill (third from left) participated in a media event about coral bleaching hosted by the state’s Department…
Read MoreBucket Brigade
Ocean scientists have access to sophisticated instruments to study the ocean, but sometimes, nothing beats a bucket for collecting water samples. For a study on phytoplankton, MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate…
Read MoreA Yo-Yo of an Instrument
Brian Hogue (left) and Ben Pietro deploy a moored profiler from R/V Atlantis during a 2010 cruise led by WHOI physical oceanographer John Toole. The instruments travel up and down…
Read MoreBig Gulp
In 2013 New England Aquarium whale researcher and WHOI guest investigator Salvatore Cerchio and his colleagues discovered some of the world’s rarest whales living off Madagascar. Omura’s whales, recognized as…
Read MoreLife Deep Down Under
Fungal colonies grow on culture dishes inoculated with samples of sediments extracted from hundreds of feet beneath the seafloor. WHOI microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb explores what life forms may be living…
Read MoreSwift and Steady
Earlier this year, scientists and crewmembers aboard the R/V Tioga retrieved an underwater mooring from Nomans Land, a small island south of Martha’s Vineyard near the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory…
Read MoreCoral Alignment
WHOI biogeochemist Konrad Hughen aligns segments of coral skeleton cored with a special underwater drill from a boulder coral off an island in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean.…
Read MoreA SEA-worthy Reunion
Four WHOI employees who are alumni of the Sea Education Association’s SEA Semester, found themselves aboard the R/V New Horizon in 2012. From left, mooring technician Meghan Donohue, information systems…
Read MoreServing Up Synechococcus
Kristen Hunter-Cevera cultured different types of colorful phytoplankton called Synechococcus, found in seawater samples from WHOI’s Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO). Hunter-Cevera, who recently earned her Ph.D. in the MIT-WHOI…
Read MoreLearning by Jetyak
Students in a small motorboat (left) use a gas-powered kayak known as a Jetyak to measure dissolved methane and other water properties of the North River in Marshfield, Mass., this…
Read MoreSeeing Into the Arizona
WHOI Alvin pilot Mike Skowronski (left) took time off from his “day job” to pilot a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, as Evan…
Read MoreHigh-pressure Sip
The manipulator arm of the remotely operated vehicle Jason positions an Isobaric Gas-Tight sampler (IGT) to collect bacteria-rich fluids flowing from a hydrothermal vent site in the Pacific Ocean. IGT samplers,…
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