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A team of geologists led by Liviu Giosan pieced together the most complete picture illustrating the growth and destruction of the Danube delta at the mouth of the […]

Red and blue lines describe the depths of a whale’s dives in work by WHOI-MIT Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop and biologist Michael Moore, […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Jeanette Wheeler (right) and 2013 Summer Student Fellow Elaine Luo prepare a tank to video the movement of oyster larvae. Wheeler is studying the behavior of […]

In 2009, the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus became stuck in a patch of muddy seafloor at 5000 meters depth. To regain the vehicle’s buoyancy, chief scientist Read More

Post-doctoral investigator Amy Maas examines a flask full of phytoplankton, which she will feed to pelagic snails she collected in the Gulf of Maine. […]

In 2013, Summer Student Fellow Alterra Sanchez calibrated and tested low-cost commercial sensors in a local marsh to evaluate their accuracy. Back in the lab of marine chemist Read More

The Pacific “Ring of Fire” produces some of the most destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on Earth, including the 2011 Japan mega-quake and tsunami. WHOI […]

Shipboard Scientific Services Group technician Allison Heater stands on the submersible Alvin during recovery of the sub to R/V Atlantis in 2009 off the coast of Oregon. The past […]

WHOI technicians Jeff Pietro (left) and Kris Newhall work on the stern of R/V Knorr to prepare a connection between jacketed wire rope and electromechanical cable on a moored […]

The remotely operated vehicle Jason, shown here during a 2011 cruise, will soon head out aboard research vessel Atlantis on a Dive and Discover cruise to study […]

Chinstrap penguins pant on a warm summer day at Orne Harbor, in the western Antarctic Peninsula, during a research expedition led by WHOI post-doctoral scholar  Read More

The slender snorkel of an Isobaric Gas-Tight sampler (IGT) draws a sample of hydrothermal fluids spewing out of a hydrothermal vent chimney as the mechanical arm of remotely operated […]

In November 2013, after many years overseeing Alvin activities as program manager at the National Science Foundation, Brian Midson (right) finally had his first dive in the sub. Afterward, Midson, […]

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry got a festive “makeover” aboard R/V Atlantis this month—WHOI engineer Justin Fujii used electrical tape and a […]

In a refrigerated room, MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Alison Criscitiello saws ice cores from the Pine Island Shelf, where the Pine Island Glacier extends from West […]