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Bouquet of Tubeworms
Fish swim amid this vibrant community of tubeworms around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near the East Pacific Rise. The fish are zoarcids—predators that eat tubeworms, crabs, and other animals […]
Read MoreClean Your Room
Benjamin Birner, a 2013 WHOI Summer Student Fellow prepares sediment samples in the NIRVANA clean room at WHOI. Birner measured the sediments radiogenic isotopic composition in hopes of identifying […]
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Building a Legacy
Long-time WHOI Board chairman Noel McLean spoke during the 1980 Associates Dinner dedication of the laboratory building named after him that was built to house geoscience laboratories along with a […]
Read MoreNorth with the Spring
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy is the nation’s newest and most advanced polar icebreaker. It is also designed to conduct a variety of scientific activities in difficult conditions. […]
Read MoreStairway to the Deep
A special, thick-walled tank permits guest investigator Sheng-Qi Zhou from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, China, to observe mixing processes under the pressures experienced deep in the […]
Read MoreTeach a Man to Fish
In the 1950s, WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder chartered the Captain Bill II so he could collect and study fish off the Northeast Coast. Here, Schroeder displays a deep-sea fish called chimaera. […]
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Climate Time Machine
Jimmy Bramante, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, collected a core sample from an Atlantic white cedar tree in Cape Cod National Seashore recently. Tree growth is […]
Read MoreA Stormy Past
Early Life
These rocky formations, called stromatolites, are made by photosynthetic cyanobacteria and other microorganisms. The microbes secrete compounds that bind sediment grains, creating a fine-layered mineral “microfabric.” Stromatolites were […]
Read MoreAfter Work
There are few observations of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Southern Hemisphere outside the tropics, yet the Southern Ocean plays a critical role in Earth’s climate and the stability of the […]
Read MoreIce Cold
The temperature was -39°F when WHOI engineers John Kemp and Kris Newhall (pictured) and colleagues set up camp on a Beaufort Sea ice floe in March 2014. They were there […]
Read MoreAlvin Rising
On October 16, 1968, at the beginning of Dive 308, two steel cables supporting Alvin‘s lowering cage parted. The sub plunged about 15 feet (4.5 meters), then bobbed to the […]
Read MoreFour Years On
In March 2011 one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded shook Japan, creating a tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and resulted in the largest unintentional Read More
Night Watcher
In 2006 MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Kelly Rakow Sutherland, who studied zooplankton at the Liquid Jungle Lab in Panama, photographed this box jellyfish while on a night […]
Read MoreTight Squeeze
In August 2014, R/V Knorr transited through Prince Christian Sound, a 60-mile (100-kilometer) strait in southern Greenland that narrows in places to only 1,500 feet (500 meters). The sound connects the […]
Read MoreUndersea Telescope
This stealthy-looking vehicle is a VPR, or Video Plankton Recorder, which images plankton and particles as it is towed through the water while software on the ship automatically identifies the […]
Read MoreRevealed Warmth
At an open house that she hosted in the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) Laboratory, scientist Claudia Cenedese invited visitors to have their portrait taken with a thermal-imaging camera, […]
Read MoreNature in Miniature
The Mesocosm Lab at WHOI is a unique facility that gives scientists the ability to set up realistic natural environments, but on a smaller scale. An underground system draws […]
Read MoreFrom the Archives
Research vessels Bear and Atlantis docked at the WHOI pier in 1955. Built during WWII as a troop carrier in the South Pacific, Bear was chartered by the Institution in […]
Read MoreTip of the Profiler
Below this buoy drifting atop an ice floe hangs the rest of an instrument called an Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP). The instrument, developed at WHOI, has a motorized device that […]
Read MoreVisit a Vent
Exhibit preparator Sean Murtha installs a new exhibit at the Ocean Science Exhibit Center entitled The Deep Sea. The exhibit was orginally displayed at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, […]
Read MoreEverything Must Go
Chen Cai, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis organizes one of the 16 seismic stations that a team led partly by WHOI geophysicist Ralph Stephen set up […]
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