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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),…
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…
Read MoreVolunteer 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…
Read MorePreparing 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…
Read MoreHighlighting 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…
Read MorePreserving 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…
Read MoreLong 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,…
Read MoreOcean 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreBefore 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…
Read MoreDeep 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.…
Read MoreEnd 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…
Read MoreRemembering 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…
Read MoreWinter 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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