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Launch and Recovery of AUV Sentry
Beach Troop
Jeffrey Brodeur, the Communications and Outreach Specialist at Woods Hole Sea Grant (WHSG), leads a beach cleanup activity with girls in a Falmouth, Mass., Brownie troop and the troop assistant,…
Read MorePreparing for Deployment
WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn (right) and Raytheon engineer Edward Colgan prepare pH sensors on a surface mooring for deployment from the R/V Neil Armstrong at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Pioneer…
Read MoreGetting their Feet Wet (and Hands Dirty)
Biologist Phil Alatalo (middle) assists Summer Student Fellow Chloe Wang (left) of Haverford College as she opens up the base of a gravity core during the annual summer cruise for…
Read MoreSummer of Science
University of Miami student Julia Paine prepares sediment samples from Canada’s Fraser River for analysis in WHOI’s Plasma Mass Spectrometry Facility. By measuring concentrations of strontium isotopes—radioactive chemical forms of the element—in the…
Read MoreIn Search of Popping Rocks
WHOI scientists Adam Soule and Mark Kurz prepare to climb into the submersible Alvin for a dive to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge seafloor during the 2016 Popping Rocks expedition aboard the…
Read MoreAustral Summer
WHOI biogeochemist Mak Saito took this striking image while aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in the southern (austral) summer of 2005-06. The international research team investigated the ecological struggle…
Read MoreEndless Summer
On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…
Read MoreNo Place to Turn
The Johanna Kristina, a ferry and cargo ship that services villages in southeastern Greenland, struggled through an unusually heavy concentration of sea ice in the Sermilik Fjord in 2015. The…
Read MoreAt Home in the Ocean
It would be difficult to mistake Woods Hole, Mass., for any other seaside town in New England. Instead of t-shirt shops and ice cream stores (though those exist here), buildings…
Read MoreEAGER at Work
Stanford microbiologist Anne Dekas works from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island to lead a team of scientists participating in the first leg of an Alvin training cruise…
Read MoreA Coral in Hand
WHOI Biologist Tim Shank holds a deep-sea coral specimen collected from an unnamed canyon south of Martha’s Vineyard in May 2016. Deep-sea corals have evolved to survive without the support of…
Read MoreObserving the Oceans
Speaking for the Ocean
High school students Gillian Asuncion (center) and Emma Bartram, from Burbank, California, tour the personnel sphere in the deep-sea submersible Alvin with Gillian’s brother, Jeremy. Asuncion and Bartram were the grand-prize…
Read MoreRiver of Ice
This is Kviárjökull, a glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland. Frequent volcanic eruptions in Iceland sprinkle a lot of black debris on glaciers’ white surfaces. Sometimes the glaciers’…
Read MoreHands on Deck
The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science, attend lectures by Woods Hole scientists, and…
Read MoreDown to the Sea in Ships (and Satellites and Robots…)
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott takes you inside Ocean Science 3.0 and the future of ocean exploration. Presentation given on July 29, 2016 at the Marine Biological Laboratory as…
Read MoreLying Down on the Job
Sometimes lying down on the job is a good thing. One of the features of the new research vessel Neil Armstrong is the fact that its A-frame, the large gray hoist…
Read MoreGlobal River Samples
Summer Student Fellow Julia Paine of the University of Miami (middle) and guest student Soumita Boral from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (left) analyze water samples from the Ganges,…
Read MoreFiltering Out Pollution
Excess nitrogen in coastal waters can cause rapid growth of algae—microscopic marine plants that can turn waters murky and, in some cases, toxic. Oysters can help remedy the situation. They…
Read MoreBig Data
How do you approach the subject of your research if it is the largest animal in the ocean (and on the planet)? Very carefully—and from the air as well as…
Read MoreLaser Focus
Engineers Jason Kapit and Anna Michel test a laser spectrometer designed to detect changing levels of methane in the atmosphere. The system shoots a laser beam between two points in…
Read MoreA Geophysical Gathering
It wouldn’t be summer in Woods Hole without this annual ritual photo on the front porch of the humble Walsh Cottage on the WHOI campus, documenting this year’s Geophysical Fluid…
Read MoreView Into the Galley
Harry Burnett, steward on R/V Neil Armstrong, answered questions from a group of people touring the ship during WHOI’s recent “Welcome Home Armstrong” public event. Burnett is in charge of ‘hospitality’…
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