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WHOI Goes to Washington

WHOI Goes to Washington

David Gallo, Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, addressed members of the U.S. House of Representatives at a reception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HOV…

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Spring Catch

Spring Catch

Under the microscope are two female copepods of different species, caught on a spring 2014 cruise in the Chukchi Sea. The cruise, aboard the USCG icebreaker Healy, aimed to study…

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How the Clam Garden Grows

How the Clam Garden Grows

In October 2013, Woods Hole Sea Grant–Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma (left) and a shellfish grower examined the growth of “blood arks” (Anadara ovalis), on Cape Cod, Mass.…

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Squid Nursery

Squid Nursery

The ocean is absorbing rising levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and becoming more acidic. How will that affect squid, a key animal in the marine food web? WHOI…

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Newsworthy Research

Newsworthy Research

WHOI research associate Crystal Breier (second from left) showed a group of 2014 Ocean Science Journalism fellows the gamma well detector used to process samples of seawater for signs of…

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Smooth Sailing

Smooth Sailing

Sunny skies and calm seas eased R/V Knorr’s transit through the 60-mile-long Prince Christian Sound during a cruise to sample currents off the coast of Greenland this summer. The sound is…

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Rainbow in the Morning, Gives Fair Warning

Rainbow in the Morning, Gives Fair Warning

A morning rainbow appeared behind the research vessel Knorr’s stack during a 2013 expedition known as the DeepDOM cruise. An interdisciplinary team of scientists onboard studied the composition of dissolved organic…

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Navigating a Sea of Sound

Navigating a Sea of Sound

The ocean is an increasingly noisy place. Sounds from shipping, oil and gas exploration, and other human activities are making it more difficult for marine mammals to hear. “Hearing is…

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Golden Opportunity

Golden Opportunity

Onlookers on shore and at sea enjoyed a clear view of the Golden Gate Bridge during a recent R/V Atlantis transit. WHOI ships often make port calls in major cities,…

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Breaking Ice for Answers

Breaking Ice for Answers

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy pushes through sea ice in the Chukchi Sea during the Arctic Spring Cruise in May of 2014. Polar icebreakers are an important component to…

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Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Twilight's Last Gleaming

A researcher takes a break to take in the sunset between CTD casts aboard the R/V Knorr this summer. Such casts, together with mooring deployments and RAFOS float launches, were a…

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An Outpouring of Support

An Outpouring of Support

Members of the O-SNAP research cruise take the “ice bucket challenge” to raise money for ALS research aboard the R/V Knorr in late August. Unlike the thousands of celebrities and…

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Picking up the Slack

Picking up the Slack

University of Washington undergraduate student Robert Joseph Daniels helps secure a just-recovered CTD rosette aboard R/V Knorr at sunset off the coast of Greenland this summer. Daniels was a part…

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Student Life

Student Life

Tailgating on the beach? Surfers awaiting the perfect wave? It was a little bit of both for students taking a Field Methods and Coastal Oceanography course, offered through WHOI’s Academic…

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One of a Kind

One of a Kind

The country’s newest ice-capable research ship, R/V Sikuliaq, was a popular attraction during a month-long port stop in Woods Hole this summer. Visitors included U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and…

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Drill Here

Drill Here

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Hannah Barkley (right) points WHOI diver Pat Lohmann to a Porites coral for coring. The core, a biopsy of the coral’s skeleton, contains valuable information…

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Squid Under Stress?

Squid Under Stress?

Squid are at the heart of the ocean food web. Many other animals depend on squid for sustenance, including fish, whales, walruses, seabirds, and people. The squid fishery in California…

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A Brilliant Run

A Brilliant Run

Scientists and crew gather on the bridge of the R/V Knorr as the ship passes through Prince Christian Sound, a channel through southern Greenland that connects the Labrador Sea with…

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Shirts off for Science

Shirts off for Science

On a hot day in late August, WHOI scientist Peter Traykovski and engineer Kevin Manganini prepare the autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) JetYak for a survey off the coast of Martha’s…

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House Call

House Call

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Bennett Spencer Lambert helps install a FlowCytobot at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory as a school of fish passes by. The instrument uses a laser to…

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Future Ocean Explorers

Future Ocean Explorers

WHOI’s 2014 Summer Student Fellows prepare to head out on the R/V Tioga for some hands-on oceanography in Buzzards Bay this summer. Now in its 55th year, this 10-to-12-week undergraduate…

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The Science of Poetry

The Science of Poetry

MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Sarah Rosengard and Casey Zakroff made three visits to the classroom of Ms. Cathy Riebesehl’s 4th grade class at Mullen Hall Elementary School in Falmouth, presenting…

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Where Air and Sea Meet

Where Air and Sea Meet

A diver works under the Air-Sea Interaction Tower, part of the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory, while R/V Tioga waits a short distance away. Installed three kilometers offshore, the tower stands in…

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Human Help

Human Help

Engineer Kevin Manganini escorts an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) JetYak through the waters off Chappaquidick, which became its own island in 2007 after a storm created an inlet that separated…

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