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Carried by the River

Carried by the River

The world’s river systems sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide by transporting decaying organic material from land to the ocean. Although river transport of carbon to the ocean is not large enough to…

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Mysterious Microbes

Mysterious Microbes

WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill, shown here giving a presentation in 2013, studies the relationships between microorganisms and marine animals. Like humans, marine animals have bacteria living on their skin. While…

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Revisiting History

Revisiting History

In 2002 WHOI scientists re-visited the seafloor near the Galápagos Islands, where in 1977 hydrothermal vents were found to support thriving communities of diverse organisms that survive on a foundation of chemosynthesis. Diving…

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Breaking Ground

Breaking Ground

The Institution’s fourth director, Paul Fye (left) presided over a period of major change during his tenure in office from 1958 to 1977. It was a time of national interest…

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Doors Closing

Doors Closing

Gates in the Miraflores Lock of the Panama Canal close behind R/V Neil Armstrong as the ship passed from the Pacific to the Atlantic recently on its inaugural voyage. In one…

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Class In Session

Class In Session

WHOI engineer Marshall Swartz (right) instructs Louis Clement, a post-doctoral scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on the technical intricacies of a CTD rosette equipped with a lowered acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). The two were…

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Sampler for Shallow Seas

Sampler for Shallow Seas

WHOI engineer Kaitlyn Tradd works on a new sampling system called SUPR-REMUS. The device consists of a multi-sampling Suspended Particulate Rosette sampler (SUPR) mounted on a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle. A…

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Serene Squid

Serene Squid

Squid such as this Dortyteuthis pealeii are common prey for many fish, whales, and even humans. WHOI researchers have studied how whales use sonar to find squid, how humans might…

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Ocean Robots: Mapping Salinity

The saltiness of the ocean varies across large and small scales in ways that are sometimes linked to changing global water cycle. Mapping salinity requires robots like gliders to make…

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Ocean Robots: Sea Ice

The ice-covered ocean is a notoriously difficult environment to study. Autonomous SeaBED vehicles took to the challenge, mapping the underside of floating sea ice and giving scientists a look at…

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Ocean Robots: Underwater Volcano

In 2009, oceanographers using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason recorded the first video and still images of a deep-sea volcano actively erupting molten lava on the seafloor.

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Ocean Robots: Arctic Ocean

Scientists are using robotic platforms like the Ice-Tethered Profiler to give them a look beneath ice-covered waters in order to understand conditions in the fragile and fast-changing Arctic Ocean.

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Ocean Robots: Open Ocean

The open ocean is vast and deep—something only an army of robotic Argo floats could begin to map in ways that help scientists understand processes that play out far from…

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Ocean Robots: Air France Flight 447

Questions surrounding the disappearance of Air France flight 447 could only be answered by finding the wreckage of the airplane on the rugged seafloor of the mid-ocean ridge—a job designed…

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Ocean Robots: Continental Shelfbreak

The edge of the North American continental shelf is a dynamic place where conditions create a vibrant and productive marine ecosystem. REMUS 100 is helping reveal just how special the…

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Ocean Robots: Hydrocarbon Seeps

Places where hydrocarbons naturally seep from the seafloor provide a way to study how oil spills in the ocean change over time. But scientists need vehicles like Sentry, Jason, or…

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Ocean Robots: Challenger Deep

Exploring Challenger Deep requires a special tool—one like Nereus designed specifically to reach the ocean’s greatest depths and take scientists places they’ve never been before. 

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Ocean Robots: RMS Titanic

After RMS Titanic was discovered in 1985, scientists returned several times to photograph and map the fabled wreck, shedding light on how it sank, and how wrecks around the world…

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Ocean Robots: Hydrothermal Vents

Since they were discovered in the East Pacific in 1977, hydrothermal vents have captivated scientists and the public alike. New search methods using underwater robots are helping discover vent sites…

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Gliders Explained

Gliders Explained

The “Ocean Institutes Science Fair” at the fall 2015 Board and Corporation meeting at WHOI featured displays describing research supported by the four WHOI Ocean Institutes. Here, scientist Robert Todd…

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