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A Four-Star Day

A Four-Star Day

In September, WHOI received a visit from the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral John Richardson, a four-star admiral who is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy. The…

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Leading Sentry to Water

Leading Sentry to Water

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry can carry advanced scientific equipment and work down to 6,000 meters deep in the ocean, but it still needs help getting in the water.…

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Loading the Deck

Loading the Deck

A large blue-and-yellow surface buoy is hoisted aboard R/V Neil Armstrong in preparation for a cruise to the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The buoy weighs approximately…

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Turtle’s Eye View

Turtle's Eye View

A leatherback turtle breaches the surface near the ferry lane between Martha’s Vineyard and Woods Hole, Mass. A ‘turtle-borne’ camera snapped this photo as part of the WHOI TurtleCam project.…

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Before the Flood

Before the Flood

WHOI climate science takes our researchers all over the globe. In Greenland, they are working to understand how the island’s two mile-thick ice sheet is disappearing. If it melts completely,…

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Fitted with Fins

Fitted with Fins

On the dock, WHOI engineers (from left) Mike McCarthy, Justin Fujii, and Molly Curran attach fins to the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry prior to ballasting and buoyancy tests in…

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Early Days

Early Days

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1958, watches as scientist Edmund Watson and others depart on a research…

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Serene Sunset

Serene Sunset

A summer sunset over the WHOI dock finds the research vessel Atlantis at home between voyages. In addition to space for WHOI’s ships, the dock and encompassing Iselin Marine Facility includes a…

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How Do Oysters Find a Home?

How Do Oysters Find a Home?

2016 Summer Student Fellow Erin Houlihan prepares to take a calibration image with a camera that is part of a system for tracking movement of oyster larvae. Houlihan is studying…

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What’s That Sound?

What's That Sound?

While a coral reef may appear quiet and serene, it’s actually a noisy place. Sounds from different sources—biological, physical, geological, and human—influence life on the reef in a variety of…

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Tour and Telepresence

Tour and Telepresence

After the August 2016 Ocean Worlds 2 Meeting, some of the attending space and ocean scientists stayed to tour parts of WHOI, hosted by senior scientist Chris German. In the…

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To Be An Oceanographer

To Be An Oceanographer

WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield (left) was among the first scientists to join WHOI in 1930. He wrote this about his first cruise aboard WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis: “There was a…

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Going Deep, Going Far

Going Deep, Going Far

In August, space and ocean scientists gathered in Woods Hole, Mass., for the second annual Ocean Worlds Meeting, organized by scientists and engineers around the U.S. including WHOI scientist Chris…

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Glacier Summer Camp

Glacier Summer Camp

Yellow tents at the edge of a glacier were home to WHOI researchers for seven weeks in 2008. The researchers collected samples from glaciers on the western edge of the…

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Bright Lights in the Blue

Bright Lights in the Blue

In brilliant color, a peacock grouper (Cephalopholus argus) swims among corals in the Farasan Banks in the Red Sea in 2009. WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold and international colleagues were there…

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Deep-water Deployment

Deep-water Deployment

WHOI engineers Jim Ryder (center) and Mark Anderson (right) assist the U.S. Antarctic Program’s Ross Hein (left) to deploy a scientific mooring at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Global Array…

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Alvin‘s Animals

Alvin's Animals

Scientists exploring the ocean depths in the WHOI-operated Alvin submersible have discovered hundreds of previously unknown species. They include the Eptatretus strickrotti hagfish, named for Bruce Strickrott, the Alvin pilot…

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Fouled But Flowing

Fouled But Flowing

Ian Hanley, first mate on WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga, oversees offloading a FlowCytobot, which uses a laser to count and identify tiny marine plants called phytoplankton. The instrument spent several months at the Martha’s…

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Bringing the Buoys Home

Bringing the Buoys Home

Third mate Amy Biddle (right) and bosun Peter Liarikos prepare to tie up to a surface mooring to ready it for ship recovery on the R/V Neil Armstrong. The mooring…

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Working Under Pressure

Working Under Pressure

WHOI senior engineering assistant Dan Kot refurbishes one of the glass pressure housings from an ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS). This type of seismograph is used to measure the movement of the…

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Alpine Field Trip

Alpine Field Trip

MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Min Xu (front) and Min Ding, trek in the Italian Alps on a study tour to examine a geologic formation called an ophiolite. This type of…

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Fine Fellows

Fine Fellows

The 2016 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows stop for a group photo during a tour of the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems building, which is home to offices, labs,…

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Girls Build a Robot that “GOES”

Girls Build a Robot that "GOES"

Sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, Mass., Mykyla Gallion, Alexia Morton, and Kyarra Lopes (left to right) test a remotely operated vehicle they built during a summer educational…

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