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In the Path of Piteraqs
The residents of Tasiilaq, the most populous community on Greenland’s eastern coast, are often exposed to the hazards of strong winds known as piteraqs. These torrents of cold air suddenly sweep…
Read MoreGetting Ripped
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Melissa Moulton and colleagues in the PV Lab at WHOI undertook an study recently to investigate where and how rip currents form on beaches. They used…
Read MoreWhat Goes Down
A scientific instrument called a CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) is pulled up to the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer from deep in the Atlantic Ocean. The 2015 expedition led by…
Read MoreTurtle Sighting
Hanny Rivera, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, took this photo of a sea turtle on the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. Many sea turtle species are endangered,…
Read MoreGolden Feather
This image of a golden feather star (unstalked crinoid) was taken with an underwater camera system known as Seasled. The Seasled was developed by WHOI scientist Dr. Hanu Singh’s lab…
Read MoreClosing the Loop
The world ocean circulates like a conveyor belt, with cold, salty, dense water in the North Atlantic sinking beneath the surface. But one question remains a mystery: How do these…
Read MoreIn Search of Geysers
WHOI students and scientists investigate Spray Geyser during a field trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The trip culminated the 2015 Geodynamics Program, a semester-long series of seminars by…
Read MoreLights, Cameras
Alvin is currently in Woods Hole undergoing maintenance work and so the Deep Submergence Science Committee (DESSC), which acts as an advisory group to the National Deep Submergence Facility operated…
Read MoreLava, Lava Everywhere
WHOI students and scientists ascend the Inferno Cinder Cone during a field trip to a lava field in Craters of the Moon National Monument in central Idaho. The trip culminated…
Read MoreLong-distance Traveller
After a two-and-a-half month journey from Miami, a Spray glider is recovered on the continental shelf southeast of Woods Hole in June 2015. By changing its buoyancy, the glider flies…
Read MoreRobot Reiki
WHOI research specialist Heather Furey and technician Roald van der Heide from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research prepare a Slocum glider for deployment in the summer of 2015. As part…
Read MoreSub Out of Water
DSV Alvin floats through air instead of water, as it is off-loaded from R/V Atlantis. The country’s deepest-diving human occupied submersible returned to the WHOI dock in July 2015 and…
Read MoreMeasure Twice
Alvin Group leader Bruce Strickrott (left) and WHOI engineer Rod Catanach prepare to offload the human-occupied submersible Alvin from its support ship Atlantis earlier in the year. The trip from ship’s deck…
Read MoreJournalists Dockside
Each September WHOI hosts a group science journalists from around the world in the Ocean Science Journalism (OSJ) Fellowship Program for a week of experience and information about the breadth…
Read MorePreparing to Dive
Engineering assistant Molly Curran prepares attaches a thruster of the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle before dock tests at WHOI and a dive off the coast of…
Read MoreHigh Honor
WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott presented the 2015 Bostwick H. Ketchum Award to Candace Oviatt, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, during a lecture and…
Read MoreOn the Dotted Line
A representative of the Office of Naval Research formally transferred operation of the newly built research vessel Neil Armstrong to WHOI at a signing ceremony in the offices of Dakota Creek…
Read MoreA Tale of Feathers
Biologist Sibel Karchner studies animals’ sensitivities to persistent, human-produced environmental contaminants such as dioxins and related compounds. Karchner and colleagues found that bird species show a wide variation in sensitivity,…
Read MoreLeading the Way
On October 8, WHOI elected a new slate of officers to its Board of Trustees and Corporation. The newly elected officers “have great passion for the ocean and have shown…
Read MoreBoo!
A pair of Red Sea anemonefish (Amphiprion bicinctus) take shelter in a pumpkin-colored sea anemone. The image was taken by Simon Thorrold, a biologist and the director of the Ocean Life…
Read MoreAncient Surprise
While conducting a study on hydrogen generation in mantle rocks, WHOI associate scientist, Frieder Klein and his colleagues discovered the remains of fossilized microorganisms mummified in hydrothermal deposits. The microbes…
Read MoreX-change at sea
WHOI researchers and engineers deployed an X-Spar (expendable spar) buoy for sea trials in June 2015. Made of low-cost components like commercial plastic tubing and modified, commonplace sensors, X-Spar buoys…
Read MoreRain, Rain
WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz finds little shelter in the middle of a lake during a recent field trip to Maine. Llopiz and chemist Amanda Spivak have been studying five lakes that have had…
Read MoreTreading Water
The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry awaits recovery during the MESH (Mapping, Exploration, Sampling at Havre) research cruise in the spring of 2015. Capable of diving and surveying the seafloor at depths…
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