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One Extreme to Another

One Extreme to Another

A team on R/V Mytilus keeps a watch on an expendable spar (X-spar) buoy during testing in an unseasonable February cold snap. WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute director Carol Anne Clayson…

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The Right Tool

The Right Tool

The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason works on the seafloor near the Havre underwater volcano northeast of New Zealand earlier this year. The volcano erupted in 2012 with a force that…

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98 in the Shade

98 in the Shade

Arborists measure the girth of a massive copper beech tree on Challenger Drive on the WHOI village campus that has provided the Woods Hole community with shade and inspiration for…

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Deep-sea Takeout

Deep-sea Takeout

Tevnia jerichonana tubeworms sprout from a “sandwich”—an artificial colonization surface made of non-toxic plastic. This sandwich was recovered from the seafloor after spending 11 months in a hydrothermal vent habitat along…

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Catch

Catch

When a ship arrives in port, the first line over the side is usually a thin heaving line with a balled “monkey fist” knot on the end that acts as…

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Endangered Species Day 2015

Endangered Species Day 2015

May 15 is Endangered Species Day. In 2010, a team that included experts from WHOI placed non-invasive DTAGs on one of the largest endangered species, and one that frequents the…

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Prepare to Dive

Prepare to Dive

Alvin, the nation’s only deep-sea research submersible, underwent an extensive upgrade between 2011 and 2014. In March 2014, scientists and engineers tested the new sub in a series of dives under…

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Bit O’ Coral

Bit O' Coral

They look like pancakes, but they are actually bits of living coral called “nubbins” with a green band of algae growing inside their skeleton. Coral animals form their hard skeleton…

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Earning his Stripes

Earning his Stripes

WHOI biologist and environmental scientist Neel Aluru recently received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). NIEHS created the award to encourage the…

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Penguins on (Shrinking) Ice

Penguins on (Shrinking) Ice

Four penguins march over a massive cornice on their way to a secluded part of the Cape Crozier colony, on the rim of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. The birds,…

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Remembering Nereus

Remembering Nereus

“Nereus was an amazing, groundbreaking robot and the only currently active vehicle in the world that could reach the extreme depths of the ocean trenches,” wrote explorer and filmmaker James…

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Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

A WHOI team led by research assistant Richard Sullivan and including guest student Charlotte Wiman (left) and research assistant Mollie McDowell prepares to survey waters off the island of Ebadon in…

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Circle of Life

Circle of Life

On Earth Day 2015, members of the Woods Hole and WHOI communities gathered to celebrate the life of a European beech tree that has stood on campus for the last…

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Many Hats

Many Hats

Ocean scientists often need to be more than “just” an expert in his or her field of study. While loading the research vessel Cabo de Hornos in Valparaiso, Chile, recently, a…

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Embryonic AUV

Embryonic AUV

Every oceanographic vehicle is brought from concept to reality by a team of engineers. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry was conceived by Barrie Walden, Al Bradley, and Dana Yoerger…

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Safe Haven

Safe Haven

Clouds of buestreak fusiliers swarm over giant “plates” of tabletop coral (Acropora spp.) on the reefs at South Brother Island in the Chagos Archipelago. During a recent coral coring expedition with…

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Fat Chance

A fatty compound responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic may hold unexpected promise in cancer research. Originally published online July 1, 2010

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Atlantis, Fore and Aft

Atlantis, Fore and Aft

Ships mean a lot to Dick Pittenger. He retired after 32 years in the Navy as an admiral and led WHOI’s Marine Operations Division from 1990 to 2004. During that…

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Burning Fat

Burning Fat

A common algae commercially grown to make fish food holds promise as a source for both biodiesel and jet fuel. Researchers Greg O’Neil of Western Washington University and Chris Reddy,…

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Tune In

Tune In

Ocean science and exploration is increasingly reliant on live video streaming from research vessels at sea to incorporate larger, more interdisciplinary teams of scientists and to make more research opportunities…

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Just Like Home

Just Like Home

The unusually cold winter allowed WHOI engineers to do something they normally can’t do: test equipment in polar conditions. Here, an autonomous Slocum glider operated by the Mixing Measurement and…

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Race Home

Race Home

Like salmon, river herring are anadromous—they spend most of their life at sea and make annual spawning migrations up rivers to release their eggs. Although the size of these spring migrations…

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Home Port

Home Port

The research vessel Atlantis spends most of its time  transporting the submersible Alvin from dive site to dive site. It recently returned to Woods Hole, however, to act in its other role…

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Drill Here

Drill Here

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy waits while Arctic Spring team members Ken Golden (left) and Chris Polashenski (right) take an ice core from the Chuchki Sea. After collecting samples, scientists brought…

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