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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…
Read MoreCelebrating New Life
On Earth Day 2015, members of the Woods Hole and WHOI communities gathered to celebrate the life of one of the much-loved copper beech trees that stood for 150 years…
Read MoreClam Hunting
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Megan May searches a rock jetty near Old Silver Beach on Buzzards Bay for clams. May is studying natural antibiotic resistance in the coastal environment…
Read MoreSwimming for Science
WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler (left) and technician Jessica Drysdale give long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte instructions in how to test seawater for radioactive isotopes of cesium released from the Fukushima Dai-ichi…
Read MoreOcean Gems
In 2008, WHOI summer student Lauren Watka held up a dish of jewel-like fish eggs. The little saltmarsh fishes called mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) tolerate varying salinity and pollutant levels, so…
Read MoreScience in Our Backyard
WHOI Associate David Babin and WHOI friend Judy Stetson learn about a project that engages citizen scientists in Buzzards Bay at the annual Associates Afternoon of Science in July. Babin…
Read MoreFuture Engineers
Students from Blackstone Valley Vocational Technical School in Upton, Massachusetts, take time out for a group photo during their visit the WHOI Ocean Sceince Exhibit Center. The students were exploring…
Read MoreBlackboard Ocean
Be it ever so humble, Walsh Cottage at WHOI is considered by many to be a sacred place. Since 1959, many great scientific minds have gathered each summer in a…
Read MoreDay Trip
What looks like a well-stocked boat trip is actually a local scientific expedition, as University of California Santa Cruz chemist Carl Lamborg, WHOI post-doctoral scholar Julia Diaz, and WHOI biogeochemist…
Read MoreCores for Climate Change
Summer Student Fellow Yuxin Zhou, working with WHOI geologist Delia Oppo and physical oceanographer Jake Gebbie, cuts off sections of a multi-core taken from the research vessel Endeavor in spring of 2014…
Read MoreBatteries Included
WHOI engineers Rick Sisson, John Lund, and Brian Kelly (left to right) inspect the wiring and leak detector at the bottom of a battery pack that will be inserted in…
Read MoreGuess Your Age?
Brett Longworth, research associate in the Geology & Geophysics department, loads a wheel of samples into the ion source of the National Ocean Sciences Accelator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. The…
Read MoreReady to Ride
A green heron watched while perched on the R/V Knorr’s dockline in July as WHOI Summer Student Fellows boarded the coastal research vessel R/V Tioga for a day trip in Buzzards Bay.…
Read MoreSubs Away!
WHOI voluteers show a group of visitors how to pilot a remote-controlled submarine outside the Ocean Science Exhibit Center recently. The popular activity with be part of the Woods Hole…
Read MoreOn Display
HOV Alvin project manager Susan Humphris spoke to members of WHOI’s Board of Trustees in 2014 in front of the newly refurbished submersible on board R/V Atlantis. On August 9,…
Read MoreTesting, Testing
Victoria McGruer, a Northeastern University student working in the lab of WHOI biologist Don Anderson, preps and tests ESPs (Environmental Sample Processors) in the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems…
Read MoreFamily Portrait
The National Deep Submergence Facility is a National Science Foundation-funded center operated by WHOI for the benefit of the entire US oceanographic community. It includes three deep-diving assets: the human-occupied submersible…
Read MoreAlvin Aloft
A team carefully unloaded the submersible Alvin from its support ship R/V Atlantis last week, as Atlantis prepares for a series of trips to recover and deploy instruments associated with the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories…
Read MoreMytilus Fine Day
A double rainbow arches over WHOI Associate Scientist Dave Ralston as he ties up the Mytilus, one of several vessels in WHOI’s small boat fleet. Ralston used the Mytilus to deploy…
Read MoreTele-commuting
WHOI engineers Peter Brickley (foreground) and Diana Wickman monitored glider deployments occurring from R/V Knorr while sitting in the comfort of the Coleman and Susan Burke Operations Room at WHOI. The…
Read MorePlaying a Part
Stephen Drew, WHOI Food Services Planner and cook serves up fresh, hot pizza daily at WHOI’s caffeteria, the Buttery. Drew and the other staff do more than just feed hungry scientists and…
Read MoreCoral Thermometers
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Whitney Bernstein and her advisor, Konrad Hughen of the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department, sort and measure cores taken from massive Porites corals in November 2008. After splitting the cores, they…
Read MoreRadiation Detectives
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Erin Black (right) and guest student Ben Duncan sliced open a marine sediment core taken in January 2015 from the Marshall Islands, site of U.S. nuclear…
Read MoreFeeding Frenzy
WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore, along with John Durban of NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center and colleagues, ventured out into Stellwagen Bank…
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