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World Oceans Day 2016

World 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, provides…

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Fair Winds

Fair 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, Knorr took…

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Scanning the Deep Earth

Scanning 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 whose…

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The Way It Was

The 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 and upgrade…

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From Corals to Climate Change

From 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 studies climate change by looking at…

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Pioneer Observers

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 Coastal…

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Repair Job

Repair 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., to the…

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1000 Degrees!

1000 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 the…

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Laser Testing

Laser 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 laser light—was…

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Successful Search

Successful 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 R/V Atlantis following…

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Eyes Above

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 around the…

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Algae, Aerosols, and Climate

Algae, 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 study Earth’s largest concentration…

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High and Dried

High 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 in…

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What’s There?

What'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 Mike…

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Ten Years Later

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…

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Core Strength

Core 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 (far left)…

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Small Bloom Expected

Small 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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Vectoring in on Currents

Vectoring in on Currents

Jerry Dean (foreground) and colleague carry a Vector Averaging Current Meter that had just been recovered from the Sargasso Sea, where it was attached to a mooring line as part…

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Woods Hole, 1948

Woods Hole, 1948

The village of Woods Hole, one of eight villages in the Town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, is shown here circa 1948. Trains, visible at bottom of the image, where the Steamship Authority…

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Color and Splash

Color and Splash

Children match colors on a chart to the color of water containing a dye to indicating the pH, or acid/alkaline levels, of the water to learn about the widespread problem…

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A NUI World

A NUI World

A team on board R/V Neil Armstrong recovered the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) during a recent cruise to test the ship’s science capabilities. During the cruise, NUI operated…

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Alvin Ashore

Alvin Ashore

A large crane off-loads the submersible Alvin from research vessel Atlantis, as WHOI Dockmaster Doug Handy holds a line and Atlantis bosun Pat Hennessy descends the gangway. Alvin weighs about…

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Interdisciplinary Impact

Interdisciplinary Impact

Kelsey Gosselin, a research assistant in the lab of WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak, saws into a core collected from the Kennebec River watershed in Maine. Spivak is working with biologist…

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Field of Stars

Field of Stars

Scientists exploring off the south coast of Fernandina Island in the Gálapagos archipelago recently saw and imaged this field of sea stars at about 280 meters (919 feet) deep. WHOI…

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