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Line ’em Up
WHOI engineering assistant Ben Tradd and senior engineer and Jason program manager Matt Heintz align the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason over its coupled payload basket during dock tests after […]
Read MoreOpen for Science
Some young visitors to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center learned about oil spills and some of the clean-up techniques during Splash Lab last summer. At the Exhibit Center, visitors […]
Read MoreFlying High
The research vessel Crawford is shown with the wing of a P5 Marlin (P5M) seaplane strapped to its side in 1960. WHOI scientists made the modification in an attempt to improve the […]
Read MoreNational Citizen Science Day
Derya Akkaynak, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, was with a group of divers watching two dozen manta rays off Kona, Hawaii, when she had an epiphany: all around her, […]
Read MoreHannibal Bank Seamount Expedition
In April 2015, a research team studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount off the coast of Panama captured something unexpected—unique video of thousands of red crabs swarming in low-oxygen […]
Read MoreBiogeochemical Pioneer
Sampling the Past
These miniscule sediment samples were collected by Kristen Esser, a guest student from Northeastern University interning in the Coastal Systems Group Lab. Lab members have gathered cores from […]
Read MoreHeat Wave
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Hanny Rivera removes a tissue sample from a bleached coral on Jarvis Island in the equatorial Pacific. Anne Cohen’s lab received […]
Read MoreMooring the World
WHOI senior scientist Bob Weller and Ruth Curry, a senior research specialist, recover an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) mooring in the Irminger Sea. WHOI has partnered with the […]
Read MoreStrapped In
WHOI senior mechanic Doug Handy checks the straps on the newly upgraded remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason prior to moving the vehicle to the Iselin Marine Facility […]
Read MoreSampling Black Smokers
WHOI researchers inside the human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin use the submersible’s robotic manipulator arms to collect samples of the hot, acidic, metal-rich fluids discharging from a hydrothermal […]
Read MoreAbundant Tiny Hosts
Under a microscope, a copepod looks fearsome, but at only one-sixteenth of an inch, it won’t bother you on a swim. People seldom see these tiny marine crustaceans, but they […]
Read MoreBack to School
A large school of bigeye trevally swam past a submarine carrying WHOI scientists descending in Cabu Pulmo National Park, home of the oldest of only three coral reefs on the […]
Read MoreWelcome Wagons
WHOI’s coastal research vessel R/V Tioga (left) and a U.S. Coast Guard vessel were among the flotilla that also included three fireboats from neighboring towns escorting R/V Neil Armstrong as it […]
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong First Arrival into Woods Hole
April 6, 2016
Read MoreSteady As She Goes
Able-bodied seaman Scott Loweth steered WHOI’s new research vessel R/V Neil Armstrong through the approach to San Francisco Harbor in November 2015 to complete the first leg of the ship’s inaugural voyage. WHOI […]
Read MorePresenting: Neil Armstrong
Carol Armstrong, wife of Naval aviator and the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, christened the research vessel bearing her husband’s name in 2014. R/V Neil […]
Read MoreR/V Neil Armstrong Virtual Tour
R/V Neil Armstrong Meet the Ship
Topping it All Off
In February, R/V Neil Armstrong spent some time in a shipyard in Charleston, S.C., to have its scientific equipment installed, including a satellite antenna, shown here. Most of its sensors […]
Read MoreEarly to Rise
A team aboard R/V Thomas Thompson made an early-morning, fog-shrouded recovery of an MC-800 multicorer off the coast of San Diego this February on a cruise to give early career […]
Read MoreHidden Battles
These images, which are CT scans similar to those taken at hospitals of the human body, provide a detailed look inside coral skeletons. The holes were made by bioeroders, […]
Read MoreTwo Ships
After R/V Knorr (now Rio Tecolutla) departed Woods Hole for the last time earlier in March, the ship headed south to its new home in Mexico. Along the way, off the coast […]
Read MoreLife Lessons
Hydrothermal vents, fissures where minerals dissolved in hot seawater pour out of the seafloor, were discovered in 1977 aboard the submersible Alvin. The amazing variety of organisms […]
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