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The test being used to diagnose the novel #Coronavirus other pandemics like AIDS and SARS—was developed with the help of an enzyme isolated from a microbe found in marine #hydrothermalvents as well as freshwater hot springs. #scienceresponds
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Scientists track hungry blue sharks as they ride swirling currents down to the #OceanTwilightZone—a layer of the ocean containing the largest fish biomass on Earth. With @UWOcean whoi.edu/news-insights/
It's #WorldOctopusDay and we're honoring the #DumboOctopus! 🐙
The #Grimpoteuthis or 'Dumbo Octopus, so-called for the delicate 'wing-like' fins just above the eyes are arguably one of the most endearing creatures of the deep.
Do you agree?
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Surely, one couldn’t be an oceanographer without going to sea? But that wasn’t the case for women in the 1950s. Meet Roberta Eike, the WHOI stowaway who made waves for future women scientists.
#WHOI #WHOIarchives #WomensHistoryMonth #1950s
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Sorry, no. But we *are* going to use Ingenuity’s terrain relative navigation system in our new autonomous underwater vehicle capable of reaching 11km depth. So there’s that.
How often do you get to watch a baby squid learn to control its skin color? Probably not very often.
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Check out this larval #squid under a microscope. Just starting to develop its coloration—and ability to change it (not sped up!) @USLTER @WHOI @NSF #NESLTER #NSFfunded @NES_LTER
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#HOVAlvin visited Octopus Garden while filming for #BluePlanetLive last week and watched this baby octopus take her first swim. #NSFfunded @NSF_GEO
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Come to the shark side... 🦈
That time when ROV Jason captured a shark swimming around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Lost City vent area in 2018.
Courtesy of Susan Lang, University of South Carolina
#NSFFunded #ROVJason
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If you were thinking, "Gee, I wish there was video of that elf making the #HOVAlvin recovery," well, we got you covered. All business no matter what the getup. #NSFfunded
The comb jelly, a kind of ctenophore (pronounced teen-o-fore, meaning to bear combs) swims by fluttering tiny rows of paddling combs. When sunlight strikes the paddles, it creates flickering rainbows along the creature’s body.
The hammerhead sharks, like this scalloped hammerhead, are some of the most critically endangered sharks in the world according to the . Like most #apexpredators, they are a key player in maintaining balance in many marine ecosystem food chains
(📸: Gerald Schömbs)
When a glass squid senses danger, it hides in plain sight by stuffing itself inside its mantle cavity and squirting black ink into the clear ball, an ingenious way to camouflage in the darkness of the #oceantwilightzone. #WeirdWednesday
Read more:
twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-ot
This #deep-sea crustacean boasts two sets of #compoundeyes (2x that of bees). Other #hyperiid #amphipods boast 360º vision & mirrors that amplify dim light–helpful for navigating the dim #OceanTwilightZone! #WeirdWednesday go.whoi.edu/otz-creature-f
#BreakingNews: During recent #HOVAlvin dives, an international team of scientists aboard #RVAtlantis found previously unknown deep-water coral reefs in waters near the Galápagos Islands. #NSFfunded Read more:
whoi.edu/press-room/new
Beautiful, ugly, or just plain peculiar according to individual reactions, this pink see-through fantasia is a swimming sea cucumber seen about 2,500 meters deep in the Celebes Sea. #WeirdWednesday
📷: Laurence Madin | © WHOI
🎵Hold me closer, tiny dancer 💃
Three views of one animal look like a magical dancing sprite in the night sea. Learn more about siphonophores like this one! twilightzone.whoi.edu/explore-the-ot
🧵 #HumansofWHOI - Jaida Elcock
I’m a -WHOI joint program student, working towards my PhD in Biological Oceanography. My thesis focuses on basking sharks that migrate through Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
The deep blue color of this iceberg suggests it is very old. When ice is newly frozen, air bubbles to scatter light. As it is compacted, the bubbles disappear. Without their scattering effect, the ice traps light at the red end of the spectrum and reflects a deep blue.
Feeling the feels from the re-release?
We are too! Keep that “I’m flying” feeling alive at our YouTube premiere, featuring 80 minutes of rare #RMSTitanic shipwreck survey footage like this.
The show kicks off TONIGHT at 7:30 ET! Sign up at go.whoi.edu/titanic-social
#FromTheField: "We caught a very charismatic Atlantic Longarm Octopus, which we named Boo. He was in very good condition, & stayed in our aquarium for 36 hours until we released him... He was very photogenic."#OceanTwilightZone #NSFfunded #RVBigelow
Happy Valentine's Day! We hope all of our thalassophiles feel love as deep as the ocean!
#WHOI #Love #WeDiveDeeper #Ocean #OceanLove #SeaOfLove
It’s a sign of spring–and hope. On Monday, #WHOI, , & researchers filmed Spindle, a 41 year-old #NorthAtlanticRightWhale nursing her calf in Cape Cod Bay. Watch more: go.whoi.edu/spindle-calf
Video by & Carolyn Miller NMFS permit 21371
These soon to be 6th graders built, tested and piloted their very own ROVs in #WHOI’s flume facility as part of the #NSFfunded Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science Program. For these innovative young minds, it looks like this is just the beginning. #EngineeringTheFuture
#WHOI, you don't look a day over 90! 🎉🎊
Today marks the 90th #anniversary of the institution's founding. From the #RVAtlantis to #RVNeilArmstrong, studying the #Titanic and the #OceanTwlightZone, it's been a wild ride so far.
#HappyBirthdayWHOI #WHOI90th #staytuned
#RVPolarstern is now farther from civilization than the . While it only takes astronauts hours to get back to Earth, it will take WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian weeks to get to the ship when she leaves this month for her 2-month stay on Leg3 of the #MOSAiCexpedition
The helmet jellyfish is one of countless #OceanTwilightZone creatures that takes part in the largest migration on earth. Each night animals rise to the surface waters to feed. At dawn they dive down to the relative safety of darker waters. By Paul Caiger twilightzone.whoi.edu
These may look like a curtain of #MardiGras beads hung in a doorway, but fish should choose another door! These Man-o'-War tentacles hang beneath its ship-shaped surface float. And those "beads" are batteries of stinging cells. #yikes #FatTuesday
A relative of the #PortugueseManOWar, the #siphonophore Rhizophysa measures four inches high, but its stinging tentacles stretch to a couple of feet while hunting. Believe it or not, these #bioluminescent animals are actually colonies! #WeirdWednesday go.whoi.edu/siphonophore
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...Alvin! The human-occupied submersible was hoisted into the air this week to be placed carefully back home on R/V Atlantis. After 18 months of upgrades, Alvin will soon be put to the test at sea, giving its first try at diving 6500 meters.
🚨 Calling all scientists! 🚨 We are hiring to grow our scientific, tenure-track staff with up to 10 new hires! Seeking candidates at all ranks in any of our 6 academic depts. App review begins Jan 18. #facultyjob #stem #hiring #oceanscience #engineering go.whoi.edu/tenure-track-s
A paper predicting the imminent collapse of a critical system of ocean currents– published last week by scientists in – has prompted intense discussion in scientific circles. #WHOI's Nick Foukal weighs in via : go.whoi.edu/wired-amoc
That feeling when you set sail with a science team that is 70% women! 💪⚓️
#thisiswhatascientistlookslike #womeninSTEM #expeditionvibes #womeninmaritime #scienceatsea #3ShipsOneOTZ #OceanTwlightZone #TFW
“With so much that is still unknown, I think there is almost an unlimited opportunity for new discovery.” – Dr. Heidi Sosik WHOI Senior scientist on exploring the #OceanTwilightZone.
#MIT_WHOI Joint Program student and ensign Lucas Herron flying with the deployed an airborn expendable bathythermograph in #HurricaneIda to help refine forecasts as the storm crosses the Gulf. Photo by #WHOI’s Steve Jayne
Stinging jellyfish are spreading globally. Transportation and warmer ocean temperatures could play a role.
whoi.edu/news-insights/
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Did you know the #fangtooth boasts the greatest teeth-to-body-size ratio of any fish in the ocean? Its #ultrablack skin can absorb 99.5% of light: the perfect #camouflage for a small fish in the #OceanTwilightZone. Learn more! go.whoi.edu/fangtooth
Rounding out #WorldOctopusDay is the Grimpoteuthis or 'Dumbo Octopus, so called for the delicate 'wing-like' fins just above the eyes. 🐙💙
It’s pitch black in the deep ocean, which makes every bit of light that #HOVAlvin can take down critically important to achieving its mission of advancing research and discovery. #Alvin6500 #NSFfunded
ndsf.whoi.edu/pushing-back-t
Bernie stopped by #WHOI this morning for a quick tour. He certainly made the rounds from diving to the deepest depths of the ocean, shark tagging, and hanging out at our Visitor's Center.
#BerniesMittens
#HOVAlvin completed its inclining test last night. On to harbor dives today in #Bermuda, then the open ocean awaits! #NSFfunded #Alvin6500
Did you know that 90% of the #volcanic activity on Earth happens in the #ocean? Thanks to #ROVJason, we get to see it in action at West Mata #Volcano! At 4,000 ft below the surface, this was the deepest-ever recorded #eruption in 2009. #NSFfunded go.whoi.edu/volcanoes
Diversity matters from the sea to the laboratories studying them, says Jaida Elcock (). See how her organization, Minorities in Shark Science () fosters mentorship opportunities in marine science for women of color. #Oceanus whoi.edu/oceanus/featur
#Whales seem to be thriving in #NYC Harbor! Thanks to a partnership with #WHOI, folks at 's Ocean Giants Program have been able to study them using more closely using a mic'd up buoy called Melville. 🗽🐋
#EarthStrong #somegoodnews
Read on: go.whoi.edu/NYCwhales
#WHOI researchers & colleagues in #Antarctica are studying #emperor #penguin chicks and colonies, helping to establish #protections for the iconic #seabird, now listed as #threatened under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Video courtesy
#HOVAlvin has visited the #EastPacificRise at 9°50'N many times over the years, but recently scientists discovered that some #hydrothermalvent chimneys had grown 20 feet+ in the past year! #NSFfunded #Alvin6500
Just offshore of NYC, #whale songs mix w/ the rumbling of ship traffic, often with deadly consequences. But there's hope. Thanks to acoustic buoys, #WHOI scientists can alert ships to nearby whales. Learn more about this #OceanImpossible technology: go.whoi.edu/anearforwhales
🎵Rockin' around the Christmas tree worm 🎵
Named for their resemblance to decorated holiday trees, Christmas tree worms are tiny, segmented worms that grow slowly & live up to four decades in a single location. Happy holidays from WHOI!
📷: Kristen Whalen | © WHOI
As a host committee member, #WHOI president is onsite at where the excitement is building for the awards ceremony this evening.
New year, new hope-- Researchers at have spotted the first North Atlantic #RightWhale calf in 2 years. Read more:
Looking for the gift no one has? How about an organic fiber optic lamp from the #OceanTwilightZone? When this Halicreas jelly was discovered in 1886, the scientists were hoping to shed "some light on the bathymetrical distribution of life.” #12DaysofTwilightZone 📸Larry Madin
It's not just pretty: the #StrawberrySquid’s bioluminescent skin helps it communicate in the #OceanTwilightZone. Its asymmetrical eyes also come in handy when hunting for dinner in the dark.
Celebrate #WeirdWednesday in the deep sea! go.whoi.edu/otz-strawberry
. is a group started by four Black female shark researchers in 2020. One of the co-founders, , is a PhD student in the #MIT_WHOI Joint Program. The organization seeks to promote diversity and inclusion in shark research. capenews.net/falmouth/news/
"Amazing--over 570m below the ocean's surface, it was pitch black below but I could still look up and see twilight filtering down from the mid-day sun far above us. By 650m down, it was pitch black in every direction!" --Heidi Sosik on entering the #OceanTwilightZone with
Did you hear about the #NorthAtlanticRightWhales in Cape Cod Bay? #WHOI researchers & Carolyn Miller captured this rare footage of a calf nursing its mother, Spindle. Watch more from the comfort of your phone:
go.whoi.edu/spindle-calf
Amazing 3-D rainbow print of the East Pacific Rise.
With data collected from #ROVJason, Justin Fujii engineer and #AUVSentry face artist had this fab slab printed. Just a few days ago researchers on the expedition were diving this very ridge! #SciArt #EngineeringArt
WHOI engineer and group member Loral O’Hara chosen as one of s #NewAstronauts. We are so proud. bit.ly/2r2KBVU
Sunday was an historic day for #HOVAlvin who completed #dive5000! Today we'll be learning a little more about the HOV that's brought us face to face with so many dazzling discoveries. #NSFfunded @NSF_GEO
No, Santa hasn’t lost his hat. This helmet jelly looks gaudy, but its red coloring is actually anything but. Red is almost invisible in the #OceanTwilightZone, which allows it to come and go almost unseen. Just like Santa. 📸 Larry Madin #12DaysofTwilightZone
You voted! And here she is, #AUVSentry celebrated her 500th dive and Halloween, adventuring in style as the #WonderWoman
@NSF_GEO #NSFfunded
See the #ocean from the back of a leatherback #seaturtle with #TurtleCam. bit.ly/2gdhtUS
#SharkCam #endangeredspecies
Scientists aboard the #RVHenryBBigelow pulled up this female #anglerfish, one of the biggest they’d ever seen. Dive deeper into the #OceanTwilightZone follow the expedition blog to learn more! Photo: With #KeepItWeird
twilightzone.whoi.edu/logbook/
#HappyBirthday to us! WHOI is 87 years young today. Way more #ocean science and exploration to come. bit.ly/2i0DBTs
It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy…Let’s go exploring!
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Thanks to our multi-talented engineers, the latest @calvinandhobbes adventure is a trip to the bottom of the Pacific ocean (and back!) on board #AUVSentry. #NSFfunded #RR2102
And we're off! #RVNeilArmstrong left home port this morning loaded with fresh moorings and profiling gliders for 's Pioneer Array.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary, we’ve got another #Titanic treat for you: previously-unreleased footage from the #RMSTitanic shipwreck, filmed by #HOVAlvin and #ROVJasonJr. Sign up for the YouTube premiere this Weds 2/15 at 7:30pm ET: go.whoi.edu/titanic-social
Happy #WorldReefDay! Today we'll be sharing some of our favorite coral facts and latest coral research! #OceanScience #CoralReefs
5,050 dives, 2,500 scientists, 43 pilots in our sub. #HOVAlvin is a hallmark for deep-sea exploration. Proposed and engineered by Allyn Vine, the namesake vehicle put #WHOI on the map helping Robert Ballard observe the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.
#WHOI90th #HappyBirthdayWHOI
🚨Calling all scientists! 🚨We are hiring to grow our scientific, tenure-track staff w/up to 10 new hires! Seeking candidates at all ranks in any of our 6 academic depts. App review begins Jan 18. #facultyjob #stem #hiring #oceanscience #engineering go.whoi.edu/tenure-track-s
#Throwback to 1990, when #deepsea #biologist became the first (and only) woman certified to pilot #HOVAlvin.
This #OceanPioneer now leads the Marine Lab & still dives in Alvin, albeit as a passenger. go.whoi.edu/CindyVanDover
#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth
Enjoy this view of a very shiny #RVAtlantis during a brief stop in San Francisco last month—and stay tuned for its return to #WoodsHole this week. #CantWait #ONR75
Not everyone in the #OceanTwilightZone is fierce-looking—this juvenile glass squid (Liocranchia) looks almost clownlike. With a transparent bell, long eye stalks, and two long wriggling tentacles this youngster can remain hidden while also sensing nearby treats. 📸Paul Caiger
In the beginning there was the mark 5, the iconic, Jules Vernian looking apparatus that divers would don to make rudimentary observations in the ocean. 90 years after its inception, WHOI's sending humans to 1,000 feet in the #exosuit
#WeDiveDeeper #HappyBirthdayWHOI #whoi90th
A #WHOI co-led study finds that marine predators, such as tunas, billfishes and sharks, utilize #ocean #eddies to find food hot spots in open ocean “deserts”. Learn more in
go.whoi.edu/popsci-ocean-p
WHOI biologist Heidi Sosik and postdoc researcher Paul Caiger begin their descent into the #OceanTwilightZone from #Alucia. With
#ItNeverGetsOld #NotesFromTheField #WeDiveDeeper
Happy #NationalTwilightZoneDay! There's no better time to celebrate fish in the deep #ocean. According to WHOI fish ecologist , their behavior affects the health of our entire planet. Learn more. #OceanTwilightZone #WeirdWednesday #photomontage
twilightzone.whoi.edu/spotlight-joel
"With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. Most of the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by the sea." - Sylvia Earle
#WomensHistoryMonth #oceans #oceanscience #WHOI #WomenOfTheDeep
This lesson in social distancing brought to you by sharks...
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This is Doug.
Doug practices social distancing.
Be like Doug.
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Happy Thanksgiving from WHOI!
#ThrowbackThursday: During a 2016 expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis, WHOI engineer Justin Fujii festooned the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry with colored electrical tape to resemble a turkey. #tbt
📷: Dan Fornari | © WHOI
1/4 What happens when ocean scientists from #WHOI decide to swim from #WoodsHole to #MarthasVineyard?
Poinsettias of the sea! These brisingid #seastars were found nearly 700 meters deep (~2,300 feet) while WHOI's Tim Shank joined others on 's #RVFalkor to study the #seamounts in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area 📸:#ROVSuBasitian
Learn more: go.whoi.edu/Brisingids
There is no #NobelPrize in ocean science, but Klaus Hasselmann, one of this years winners of the physics prize, spent time at WHOI early in his career as Doherty Professor in Physical Oceanography and to take part in the summer Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program (front right).
Strawberry squid forever.... 🎶
As sampling continues aboard the ship, #HenryBBigelow, researchers found this little wizard fellow jetting around the #OceanTwilightZone. Photo by #PaulCaiger
Happy #WorldOceansDay! Submarine volcanoes continuously shape and reshape our ocean floor. In the 1970s scientists discovered creatures that eat materials emitted during volcanic eruptions!What else might we find as we continue to explore our ocean world? gift.whoi.edu/page/11322/don
Getting ready to roll #HOVAlvin out tomorrow and lift it onto #RVAtlantis after both have gone through some big upgrades. You’ll be able to watch live on Facebook tomorrow morning, but one thing you might not see during the hoist is this nod to our past.
Well, it’s official. Atlantis and Alvin sail tomorrow for the next phase of the sub’s sea trials and the next step on the road to 6500 meters. Follow along at ndsf.whoi.edu. #NSFfunded #Alvin6500
It isn’t often that upper #ocean productivity makes the news, but there you have it. via and go.whoi.edu/V1tkTw
The original Atlantis sailed 35 years for science and traveled 700,000 miles. Atlantis gave its name to another famous ship, as well--the space shuttle Atlantis. Celebrating #Apollo50th #MoonLanding, celebrating exploration.
"40 years ago, a group of climate scientists sat down at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts for the first meeting of the Ad Hoc Group on Carbon Dioxide and Climate". #CharneyReport #ClimateChange
Before she changed the world with #SilentSpring, Rachel Carson was a woman in love with the tide pools of Woods Hole. Her astute observations not only amaze, they give us a glimpse at the earliest effects of #climatechange in our ocean.
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Today, the listed #EmperorPenguins as #threatened under the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Learn how they came to that #science-based conclusion and what it means. go.whoi.edu/emperor-pengui
A deep-sea elevator carrying samples from hydrothermal vents returns to the surface where #RVAtlantis sits waiting. The elevator served as seafloor shuttle loaded down with samples collected by #ROVJason. #NSFfunded @NSF_GEO
#SundayScience #ElevatingEngineering.
A pioneer, and inspiration to us all, Walter Munk will be deeply, deeply missed.
#WHOI has been awarded a $1 Million grant to build a 3D acoustic telescope, the first of its kind. The WHOI-Keck telescope will give us an unparalleled look at the soundscape of the deep ocean environment #WMKeckFoundation #KeckFunded whoi.edu/news-release/w
