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A Warming Arctic
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis photographed this Arctic denizen when he served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015. Led by Michael Aw of…
Read MoreArbor Day Oceanography
Keelan Murphy (left), a student at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and Mary Lardie, a technician in the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility at WHOI, extracted samples from…
Read MoreTo the Seafloor and Back
WHOI geochemist Mark Kurz couldn’t be happier, even after being doused in ice-cold seawater. Though Kurz has worked at WHOI since 1983, this spring he experienced his first Alvin dive…
Read MoreHoley Corals
This coral may look like it was blasted by a shotgun, but these holes are occupied by tiny molluscs that bore into coral skeletons to escape predators. This process, called…
Read MoreCollecting Trip
WHOI biologist Ann Tarrant collects animals from a Woods Hole, Mass., salt marsh to culture and study in the lab. Tarrant investigates the genes invertebrate animals use to respond to…
Read MoreSoul of the Machine
Like cars, even high-tech underwater robots like the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry need periodic maintenance and upgrades. Before Sentry took part in a recent cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to…
Read MoreBear Necessities
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis photographed this Arctic denizen when he served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015. Led by Michael Aw of…
Read MoreClose Call
On September 14, 1944, with a category 4 hurricane working its way up the Eastern seaboard, WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis was secured to the National Marine Fisheries Service dock in…
Read MoreHappy Earth-Ocean Day
Many processes that marine scientists study also have connections to dry land. Last year, students and faculty explored the rocks surrounding the Snake River Plain Yellowstone Hotspot, which lies underneath…
Read MoreNeel Aluru
Good-bye and Good Luck
A pilot boat pulls away from R/V Atlantis as it departed Charleston, S.C., recently on a mission to the site of the sunken cargo ship El Faro. The WHOI team on…
Read MoreRemains of the Day
Six years after the blow-out of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy (right), is still finding oil from the accident along…
Read MoreLine ’em Up
WHOI engineering assistant Ben Tradd and senior engineer and Jason program manager Matt Heintz align the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason over its coupled payload basket during dock tests after the…
Read MoreOpen for Science
Some young visitors to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center learned about oil spills and some of the clean-up techniques during Splash Lab last summer. At the Exhibit Center, visitors can…
Read MoreFlying High
The research vessel Crawford is shown with the wing of a P5 Marlin (P5M) seaplane strapped to its side in 1960. WHOI scientists made the modification in an attempt to improve the measurement of…
Read MoreNational Citizen Science Day
Derya Akkaynak, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, was with a group of divers watching two dozen manta rays off Kona, Hawaii, when she had an epiphany: all around her, on…
Read MoreHannibal Bank Seamount Expedition
In April 2015, a research team studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount off the coast of Panama captured something unexpected—unique video of thousands of red crabs swarming in low-oxygen…
Read MoreBiogeochemical Pioneer
Geoff Eglinton (1927-2016) influenced and inspired generations of marine chemists for more than 25 years as a WHOI adjunct scientist. In 2015, he penned an article for Oceanus magazine, commenting on…
Read MoreSampling the Past
These miniscule sediment samples were collected by Kristen Esser, a guest student from Northeastern University interning in the Coastal Systems Group Lab. Lab members have gathered cores from around the…
Read MoreHeat Wave
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Hanny Rivera removes a tissue sample from a bleached coral on Jarvis Island in the equatorial Pacific. Anne Cohen’s lab received an NSF RAPID response…
Read MoreMooring the World
WHOI senior scientist Bob Weller and Ruth Curry, a senior research specialist, recover an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) mooring in the Irminger Sea. WHOI has partnered with the National Science…
Read MoreStrapped In
WHOI senior mechanic Doug Handy checks the straps on the newly upgraded remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason prior to moving the vehicle to the Iselin Marine Facility for dock trials.…
Read MoreSampling Black Smokers
WHOI researchers inside the human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin use the submersible’s robotic manipulator arms to collect samples of the hot, acidic, metal-rich fluids discharging from a hydrothermal vent more than…
Read MoreAbundant Tiny Hosts
Under a microscope, a copepod looks fearsome, but at only one-sixteenth of an inch, it won’t bother you on a swim. People seldom see these tiny marine crustaceans, but they…
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