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Predicting Precipitation
Physical oceanographers Laifang Li, Ray Schmitt, and Caroline Ummenhofer (left to right) look over an illustration depicting a recently discovered link between sea-surface salinity and rainfall in the Sahel, an […]
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Briefing the Press
Andy Bowen, a WHOI principal engineer and director of the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF), provided details to the media on how WHOI-operated vehicles were used to help the […]
Read MoreStrong Arm Tactics
Bringing a 274-foot research vessel to rest is not for the faint-of-back. Pete Liarikos, bosun on R/V Neil Armstrong, lent a hand recently in helping secure R/V Atlantis to the […]
Read MoreDoing the Honors
Dean and Vice President for Academic Programs Jim Yoder does the honors in dedicating a new dormitory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. The dorm contains 35 beds spread among 18 […]
Read MoreKeep Away
What looks like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway is actually something to strike fear in the heart of any fish swimming nearby. These are the […]
Read MoreVisit Neil Armstrong
On June 25, the public is invited to see the nation’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, at the WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility in Woods Hole. Visitors will have an […]
Read MoreExperiments at Sea
Scientists sailing on R/V Atlantis as part of the NASA-NAAMES expedition will use these large plastic containers to incubate microscopic marine plants and the tiny animals that eat […]
Read MoreWorld Oceans Day 2016
Today is World Oceans Day. The global ocean is one of the keys to life on Earth. It helps regulate our climate and our water supply, supplies oxygen to the atmosphere, […]
Read MoreFair Winds
Rear Admiral Chris Sadler (left) and Viceadmirante Francisco Perez Rico complete the transfer of R/V Knorr (now the Rio Tecolutla) to the Mexican Navy. In its more than four decades at WHOI, […]
Read MoreScanning the Deep Earth
WHOI scientist Veronique LeRoux places a sample of porous lava into a Skyscan 1272 CT, an imaging system that creates three-dimensional views of physical samples that it scanns. LeRoux is a geologist […]
Read MoreThe Way It Was
Circa 1966, two swimmers flank the pilot guiding the original DSV Alvin into its docking space in Lulu, the sub’s first tender ship. After its recent extensive overhaul […]
Read MoreFrom Corals to Climate Change
WHOI paleoclimatologist Konrad Hughen snapped this photo of a hermit crab during a 2015 expedition to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Hughen Read More
Pioneer Observers
Surface buoys stand outside the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems at WHOI, where they undergo testing before deployment at sea. These five Coastal Profiler Moorings and one […]
Read MoreRepair Job
Assistant engineers Jean Lavache and Wayne Sylvia and oiler Roger Fong (left to right) overhaul a pump on R/V Neil Armstrong during its inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Wash., […]
Read More1000 Degrees!
The first four graduate students to receive degrees from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program at the first commencement ceremonies in 1970 sit in the front row on either side of […]
Read MoreLaser Testing
In a collaborative project with researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SI0), a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with imaging LiDAR—a remote sensing technology that uses […]
Read MoreSuccessful Search
Television reporters interview Carl Kaiser, program manager for the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry at the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF), in early May on the deck of Read More
Eyes Above
Galapagos swallow-tailed gulls soar above R/V Atlantis during a 2010 expedition near the Galapagos Islands. The unusual birds, the only fully nocturnal gulls and seabirds in the world, flocked […]
Read MoreAlgae, Aerosols, and Climate
Researchers from the University of Rhode Island prepare the main lab of R/V Atlantis for a cruise to the North Atlantic, where a multi-institutional team will […]
Read MoreHigh and Dried
Christine Chen examines stony deposits called tufas on an ancient lakeshore in the central Andes Mountains, northern Chile. Chen, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, visited there […]
Read MoreWhat’s There?
For decades, one of the driving forces behind much of WHOI’s success in exploring the ocean has been the close association between its scientists and engineers. Here, research engineer Read More
Ten Years Later
In 2006, WHOI launched Image of the Day. Since then, nearly 4,000 images have graced the home page highlighting WHOI researchers, expeditions, and discoveries. This is the very first image […]
Read MoreCore Strength
Participants in the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 360 proudly display the longest continuous piece of rock core ever recovered from the seafloor. WHOI geologist Henry Dick […]
Read MoreSmall Bloom Expected
Alexandrium fundyense is the algae notorious for producing a toxin that accumulates in shellfish and can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning in humans. This organism swims in the water and divides […]
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