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Midnight Sunset
WHOI Summer Student Fellow Astrid Pacini captured a serene midnight sunset on a research cruise off Iceland in August. Pacini went as an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) watch-stander with…
Read MoreLending a Hand
Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI physical oceanographer and director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute, holds a tag line during test deployment of an expendable spar buoy (X-Spar). Clayson and senior…
Read MoreIce Watch
An art installation in Paris at the COP 21 climate conference presents a reminder of the importance of the ocean in Earth’s climate. “Ice Watch,” created by the Icelandic artist…
Read MoreReady to Fly
Chilly conditions in Woods Hole in early 2015 provided ideal conditions for engineer Ken Decoteau to do engineering runs of a Slocum glider in advance of its deployment in the…
Read MoreSteady Hands
WHOI engineers Mike Jakuba (left) and Molly Curran steady the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle as it is loaded onto R/V Tioga in September for trials off…
Read MoreJaguar on the Seamount
On a recent trip Panama’s Coiba National Park led by WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda, AUV specialist Jeff Anderson and WHOI postdoctoral scholar Yogi Girdhar (left to right) deployed the SeaBED-class vehicle Jaguar…
Read MoreBriefing in Tokyo
In Tokyo, Japan this October, WHOI scientist Ken Buesseler and Japanese colleagues briefed US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy about radioactivity levels and sources in the ocean near the Fukushima…
Read MoreClimate, the Next Generation
The Graduate Climate Conference (GCC) is an annual gathering of graduate students who study climate and climate change. The meetings typically alternate between MIT and the University of Washington and provide…
Read MoreOld As Ice
This image of a blue iceberg, calved off a glacier, was captured on a recent research trip to waters off Greenland. Its striking color indicates that the ice in it…
Read MoreFrom Mud to Molecules
Originally published online January 1, 2010
Read MoreTracking an Advance
King crabs may be an important economic marine resource in many regions, but they are also a high-level predator that, in the wrong place, can have devastating impacts on the…
Read MoreNUI manipulator integration
Bioacoustic Pioneers
In 1949, WHOI biologist William Schevill, right, and his wife Barbara Lawrence used a crude hydrophone and a dictating machine to record beluga whales from a small boat in the…
Read MoreNosing Onto the Shelf
Gliders released off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters exchange in the economically important waters…
Read MoreFukushima’s Impact on the Ocean
By Daniel Cojanu, Ken Kostel, Matt Barton :: Originally published online January 1, 2014
Read MoreTricking Tricho
New research by scientists at WHOI and the University of California, has demonstrated that Trichodesmium (shown here), a key organism in the ocean’s food web, will start reproducing at high speed…
Read MoreRare Sight
McKay’s Bunting is a special sight. Named in honor of American naturalist Charles McKay , these birds summer and breed on a few remote islands in the Bering Sea, and…
Read MoreTesting the Ice
An ice axe is an indispensable tool for navigating on ice. Scientists often use them to probe the snow ahead to see how deep it is, to stop themselves when sliding down…
Read MoreFairy Falls
WHOI students and scientists paused for a group photo before Fairy Falls during a field trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The trip culminated the 2015 Geodynamics Program, a…
Read MoreGiving Thanks
At sea, traditions that speak of home and loved ones take on greater meaning. In 1952, Capt. John Pike carved a Thanksgiving turkey in the wardroom aboard R/V Atlantis during a cruise from…
Read MoreDo More on DoMORE
Jian Zhao from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) takes water samples from a CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) rosette on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer during a 2015 expedition off…
Read MoreLake Home
Peru’s Lake Titicaca has been home to ancient civilizations for mellennia, including the Incan Empire and, most recently, the Uros, who live on a network of manmade, floating islands and…
Read MoreWelcoming Armstrong
It isn’t often that WHOI or any other research institution welcomes a new research vessel to the fleet. On October 31, R/V Neil Armstrong set out from Anacortes, Wash., where it…
Read MoreBlazing Sunsets
Sunsets come earlier with every passing day this time of year, but the trade-off is that they are often quite beautiful. A recent, blazing sunset framed WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis…
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