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In Deep

In 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),…

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Ready for His Close-up

Ready 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,…

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The Summer House

The 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…

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Once and Future Ocean

Once 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…

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Arriving Yesterday

Arriving 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…

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Ironing Out the Details

Ironing 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…

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Taking the Plunge

Taking 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…

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Test Ride

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.…

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Surf’s Up

Surf'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…

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Cape-Able Partners

Cape-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…

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Arctic Springs Eternal

Arctic 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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Volunteer for Science

Volunteer for Science

High school student Alec Cobban works inside a sterile environment in WHOI scientist Virginia Edgcomb‘s lab, setting up a method to amplify and examine genes involved in nitrogen metabolism. This…

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Preparing for HADES

Preparing for HADES

In 2014 two expeditions organized by WHOI biologist Tim Shank‘s played a starring role in the HADES (Hadal Ecosystem Studies) project, a collaborative research program investigating the role that environmental factors…

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Highlighting WHOI

Highlighting WHOI

NSF Director France Córdova (second from left) and former Ocean Sciences Division Director Debbie Bronk (middle) visited WHOI in September of 2014. While here, they managed a rare photo op…

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Preserving History

Preserving History

Archivist Dave Sherman works in the WHOI Data Library, where a diverse collection of scientists’ personal papers, oral histories, visuals, publications, and other documents are housed. The archives—part of the…

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Long Row to Hoe

Long Row to Hoe

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield looked into clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large harbor in Barnstable,…

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Ocean Iron Links

Ocean Iron Links

Many areas of the ocean are nutrient-rich, but lack iron, which fuels the growth of phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms that form the base of the ocean food chain and play…

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The Hole Story

The Hole Story

WHOI senior research assistant Justin Ossolinski collects gear after helping core a Porites lobata coral colony off Danger Island in the Chagos Archipelago. The bright white coral skeleton visible in…

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Before and After

Before and After

In 1946, some 40 WHOI staff participated in work to study the effects of a nuclear blast and subsequent radiation on the ocean and marine life. From left, Arnold Clarke, Ruthann…

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Deep Discussions

Deep Discussions

Rigorous discussion and free exchange of ideas were hallmarks of Henry Stommel‘s intellectual style. Here, the renown physical oceanograher engages in one such discussion with George Veronis, of Yale University.…

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End of the Earth

End of the Earth

Ed “Catfish” Popowitz, bosun of R/V Atlantis stood on the bow of the ship as it sailed through the Straits of Magellan and passed the wreck of the Captain Leonidas. The Leonidas ran aground while…

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Remembering a Legend

Remembering a Legend

Bill Schevill, right, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics after World War II, but when Bill Watkins, left, joined him in Woods Hole in 1958, they began what former…

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Winter Break Teaching

Winter Break Teaching

This January, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Isabela Le Bras became a teacher at a residential course in Ensenada, Mexico, through the organization Clubes de Ciencia, which pairs young U.S. and…

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