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The Power of Waves
Graduate student Anna Wargula (above, at a 2014 open house) will speak on “The Power of Waves at Martha’s Vineyard” in the summer talk series, “Science Made Public,” July 19…
Read MoreAll Aboard for Summer
Visitors to Woods Hole last month had a rare opportunity to tour the Ocean Class research vessel R/V Neil Armstrong before the ship set sail for its first long cruise into the…
Read MoreDaily Discussions
WHOI scientists in the lab of the R/V Neil Armstrong confer about the data collected in the previous 12-hour watch and plan for the next day. Because Armstrong is a…
Read MoreScientists On Ice
A glaciologist, a physical oceanographer, and a geophysical fluid dynamicist walk onto a glacier….! WHOI scientists Sarah Das, Fiamma Straneo, and Claudia Cenedese all study ways the ice and ocean…
Read MoreBallasting for Buoyancy
WHOI engineer Jared Schwartz “ballasts” an underwater glider to prepare it for a mission in the ocean about 100 miles off the southern coast of New England. Ballasting involves measuring…
Read MoreSummer Studies
Each summer, undergraduates from around the world come to WHOI to learn about ocean science. The summer fellowship, which started in 1959, gives visiting students the opportunity to get hands-on…
Read MoreNo Stone Unturned
Inside the Control Room
Korey Verhein, a pilot of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason, controls the vehicle from a control room filled with screens that display data transmitted from the underwater vehicle, including…
Read MoreWhere Glaciers Meet the Sea
By Jack Cook, Tim Silva :: Originally published online June 1, 2010
Read MoreOne Beach, Two Continents
WHOI offers students a unique Geodynamics Program that fosters interdisciplinary research among faculty, Joint Program students and postdoctoral fellows. Each year a different theme is the focus of a seminar…
Read MoreTurtleCam 2016: A Turtle’s-eye-view
Highlights from recent TurtleCam missions include video of a leatherback turtle being tagged, views of tagged turtles from the REMUS TurtleCam vehicle, and a turtle’s-eye view of their favorite food…
Read MoreDouble Sampling
On a June 2016 cruise aboard R/V Neil Armstrong, biologist Phil Alatalo tightens a bolt securing a safety harness for the Digital Autonomous Video Plankton Recorder (DAVPR), which is bolted…
Read MoreOpen for Exploration
In June, the new research vessel Neil Armstrong opened to the public for guided tours as part of a day of activities to welcome the ship to its home port in Woods…
Read MoreScience on a New Ship
Crew members and technicians on WHOI’s new ship R/V Neil Armstrong deploy a deepwater mooring off Cape Hatteras—the first mooring deployment from the Armstrong. Bosun Peter Liarikos uses hand signals…
Read MoreTower of Data
WHOI research associate Alexi Shalapyonok checks a Flow CytoBot (FCB) on the air-sea interaction tower of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory while the coastal research vessel Tioga stands by. The…
Read MoreWrestling with RATS
On a coral reef off Palau, MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Tom DeCarlo (left) and WHOI geologist Pat Lohmann position a device called “RATS” (Robotic Analyzer for Total CO2 system in…
Read MoreSharkCam Lost and Found
At the end of their December 2015 expedition to the shark-filled waters off Guadalupe Island, the SharkCam team lost contact with their newest vehicle in nearly 600 feet of water.…
Read MoreMission: Underwater
Two Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) vehicles were stowed on R/V Neil Armstrong before the ship departed on the final leg of a three-leg expedition to service parts of the National…
Read MoreIndependence Day 2016
Independence of thought, of action, and of research; a belief in the freedom to take initiative; and an irrepressible desire to explore the unknown and to make new discoveries at…
Read MorePartners at Sea
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and U.S. Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mathias Winter stand next to a mooring anchor frame in the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors…
Read MoreA Matter of Degrees
Two celebrated research institutions joined forces in 1967 to launch the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Last month, the program awarded its one-thousandth graduate degree. Jim Yoder, vice president for academic…
Read MoreAt the Helm
Captain Derek Bergeron looks out a starboard window from the bridge of the R/V Neil Armstrong at the start of a recent cruise from Woods Hole to the continental shelf…
Read MoreTool of the Trade
Instruments like this, known as a CTD rosette, are a mainstay of oceanographic research. CTD stands for conductivity (which provides a measure of salinity), temperature, and depth. In this case,…
Read MoreReturn of SharkCam: Into the Dark
SharkCam returned to Guadalupe Island, Mexico, to follow great white sharks deeper and into the night to give researchers never-before-seen views of the ocean’s top predator in the wild.
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