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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…
Read MoreNervous Parent
It was just 6 degrees in Woods Hole when WHOI scientist Carol Anne Clayson watched the test deployment of a new instrument she helped design. The Expendable Spar (X-spar) Buoy…
Read MoreJourney to a Ph.D.
Eleanor Bors opted to skip her commencement exercises at Oberlin in 2009 to get an early start in WHOI’s annual Summer Student Fellowship program and join an expedition on the…
Read MoreWaste Not
The bacterium, Crocosphaera watsonii (pictured), is one of the few marine microbes that can convert nitrogen gas into organic nitrogen, which acts as fertilizer to stimulate plant growth in the…
Read MoreFuture Ocean Vision
A group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., visited the Ocean Science Exhibit Center recently on what has become a regular event sponsored by…
Read MoreOld School
Former WHOI oceanographer Joe Chase deploys a string of Nansen bottles from the Institution’s first research vessel, R/V Atlantis. The sampling device was developed in 1910 by the explorer and oceanographer…
Read MoreEarth Day, Every Day
A school of humpback snapper glows in the sunlight of South Brother Island of the Chagos Archipelago during a recent expedition to survey and sample the remote coral reefs for…
Read MoreCoral Collectors
WHOI scientists Amy Apprill (left) and Matthew Neave collect tissue samples from corals off Woleai Atoll of the Federated States of Micronesia. Members of Apprill’s lab are looking at reefs around…
Read MoreHidden Currents in the Gulf of Mexico
By Lonny Lippsett, Tim Silva :: Originally published online April 20, 2015
Read MoreDeepwater Horizon
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and released about 75,000 gallons of oil per hour into the Gulf of Mexico for 87…
Read MoreFeeding the Ocean
Krill are very small crustaceans living in oceans around the world that eat even smaller organisms called phytoplankton. Krill play a major role in the food chain because they provide food for…
Read MoreGuess Who Came to Dinner
During a 1961 R/V Chain cruise, the ship made a port call in Monaco. While there, Captain Emerson Hiller invited the royal family to Thanksgiving dinner on board. From left:…
Read MoreIn Deep
Researchers prepare to bury seismic sensors in the snow at Antarctica‘s Ross Ice Shelf. Led by Peter Bromirski (Univ. California, San Diego), Ralph Stephen (WHOI), Doug Wiens (WUSL), Rick Aster (CSU),…
Read MoreReady for His Close-up
Richard “Dick” Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the Korean War,…
Read MoreThe Summer House
You know it’s spring when migrating osprey return to Cape Cod from Central and South America. Ospreys are large, black-and-white birds of prey that, unlike other raptors, feed almost entirely…
Read MoreOnce and Future Ocean
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Laura Stevens marks the location of a buried geophone in Botswana along the East African Rift, where two pieces of Earth’s crust are separating, forming…
Read MoreArriving Yesterday
Sun halos and a rare lower-tangential arc (bright area above the wing) surround a Twin Otter aircraft carrying equipment and personnel to Antarctica’s “Yesterday Camp”—so-named because it sits just east…
Read MoreIroning Out the Details
Scientists have long thought the majority of the ocean’s iron—a key biological nutrient—comes from atmospheric dust, with smaller inputs from terrestrial sediment and hydrothermal vent fluids. Although iron is soluble in…
Read MoreTaking the Plunge
The science crew aboard US Coast Guard cutter Healy prepare a CTD sampler for deployment during the 2014 Arctic Spring expedition to the Chukchi Sea. In search of under-ice phytoplankton blooms, scientists…
Read MoreCarbon Around the World
Test Ride
R/V Neil Armstrong took a step closer to delivery recently when it began builder’s trials in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. The ship, shown here off Anacortes, Wash., with Mt.…
Read MoreSurf’s Up
The storm surge from the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, which made landfall as a category 3 storm on Long Island battered the shore of Woods Hole, Mass. In addition…
Read MoreCape-Able Partners
A new grant from The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation will help WHOI fund a three-year collaboration with Cape Abilities—a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding good jobs for disabled…
Read MoreArctic Springs Eternal
Researchers got a breathtaking view from the bow of icebreaker Healy during the 2014 Arctic Spring expedition to the Chuchki Sea. Though the sun never fully set during the expedition, twilight…
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