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Coral Clouds

Coral Clouds

WHOI senior scientist Konrad Hughen swims through dense clouds of bluestreak fusiliers in the Chagos Marine Reserve, the world’s largest no-take marine reserve. The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation’s…

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Showing WHOI Are

Showing WHOI Are

A group of faculty and students on a trip to a lava field in Idaho’s Craters of the Moon National Monument created a human “WHOI” choreographed by former postdoctoral investigator…

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Early to Rise

Early to Rise

A team that included Mike Dodge, WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya, and NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center biologist Kara Dodge (left to right) headed out of Woods Hole at sunrise recently…

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Life in Seafloor Mud

Life in Seafloor Mud

A petri dish holds seafloor sediment from Buzzards Bay, Mass. Each year WHOI Summer Student Fellows spend a day aboard R/V Tioga learning about oceanographic instruments and sampling. This year’s…

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Back to School

Back to School

WHOI’s 2015 class of Summer Student Fellows may be gone (back to school), but they are certainly not forgotten. This year’s group of 32 undergraduates included seven international students from India,…

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Hitting a High Note

Hitting a High Note

Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart watches as his wife, Emiley Z. Lockhart, climbs into HOV Alvin during a tour last month. The couple visited WHOI with their friend, NASA astronaut Sunita…

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Southern Snow Blowers

Southern Snow Blowers

In Antarctica, fierce winds blow plumes of snow out to sea, obscuring most of the 400 mile-long Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica’s largest ice shelf. As the global climate warms, polar…

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Distant Rumblings

Distant Rumblings

Recent seismic activity along the Cascadia Subduction Zone has renewed attention on the hazard it poses to residents from Vancouver to Portland. The Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool which includes researchers from…

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Proud Lineage

Proud Lineage

Since its beginning, WHOI has maintained a vessel used by researchers to study the coastal ocean or to test equipment in local waters. Today, that job is held by R/V Tioga…

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Too Much of a Good Thing

Too Much of a Good Thing

Summer Student Fellow Claudia Mazur, of Mount Holyoke College (foreground), together with WHOI guest student Alec Cobban sampled sediments under oyster aquaculture sites in West Falmouth Harbor this summer. Both were working in WHOI…

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Argo and Titanic

Argo and Titanic

Thirty years ago today, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians aboard the research vessel Knorr discovered the final resting place of RMS Titanic. The team found the wreck with…

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Pumice Puzzle

Pumice Puzzle

On July 31, 2012, a passenger on a commercial airliner spotted what appeared to a large raft of pumice in the Pacific Ocean. Satellite imagery revealed the likely source—the Havre…

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Precision Work

Precision Work

In this 1946 photograph, five men work in the WHOI machine shop that was then located on the ground floor of the Bigelow Laboratory. Ralph Bodman is behind the machine…

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Traditional Relationships

Traditional Relationships

A group from WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group, including Katie Castagno (grey shirt) and Michelle O’Donnell (far right), led a field lesson this summer for Mashpee Wampanoag students as part of…

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Eavesdropping on the Reefs

Eavesdropping on the Reefs

In two recent studies, WHOI scientists demonstrated an new way to assess the health of coral reefs and to monitor threats on remote atolls: They used low-cost underwater recorders designed…

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Mobilized Mercury

Mobilized Mercury

WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar Priya Ganguli worked with Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) student Kelly Luis this summer to test groundwater from nearby Mosquito Creek for methylmercury. Septic systems in…

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Watchful Eye

Watchful Eye

Instructor Bruce Tripp (left) watched WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jerry Fontus (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julia Lanoue (Brown University) as they deployed a CTD water sampling rosette off the…

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Written in Mud

Written in Mud

Seafloor sediments often contain valuable clues to the nature of Earth’s climate in the distant past. Scientists collect long cores of sediment, sometimes from great depth, and then split them…

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Lighting the Way

Lighting the Way

Woods Hole PEP (Partnership Education Program) student Ellin Rittler from the University of San Francisco worked with WHOI biologist Scott Gallager this summer to examine the use of Raman spectroscopy…

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Local Science, Global Impacts

Local Science, Global Impacts

WHOI Geology and Geophysics Chair Dan McCorkle spoke to a group of more than 100 WHOI Associates at the annual Afternoon of Science in July. McCorkle described a project funded…

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Krill Close-up

Krill Close-up

In 2009, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Andrew McDonnell captured this image of an Antarctic krill off the West Antarctic Peninsula. McDonnell was on a cruise with WHOI chemist Ken…

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Summer of Science

Summer of Science

WHOI retiree Hovey Clifford shows Summer Student Fellows Julia Lanoue (Brown University), Ben Beaumont (North Carolina State University), and Ann Dunham (Dartmouth College), left to right, how to sieve sediment samples…

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