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Today, WHOI’s mooring and instrument engineers are world-renowned for their expertise in designing and deploying deep-sea mooring arrays. That expertise dates back […]

The inside of the bridge of R/V Neil Armstrong was left to dry after workers sprayed a thermal coating that will prevent condensation […]

The tip of this swordfish bill was found embedded in a deep-sea mooring in the 1980s. For years, WHOI engineers suspected that fish were damaging mooring components by biting them, […]

Members of the lab run by WHOI chemist Matt Charette installed equipment on a beach during a recent trip to Northeast Japan. In addition to collecting groundwater samples […]

“I think it was a good omen, as everything has gone smoothly so far,” is how WHOI senior scientist Al Plueddemann described the appearance of a snowy owl on the […]

Researchers Craig Taylor and Maria Pachiadaki bolt a turbidity meter to a chain hanging from a Microbial Sampler-Submersible Incubation Device (MS-SID). They used the MS-SID to collect water and […]

The pH scale, shown here, indicates the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in a liquid. Above pH=7, a fluid is alkaline; below 7, it is acidic. Seawater is slightly alkaline, […]

During a recent trip to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, WHOI guest student Chris Maio assisted in the collection of sediment cores from the Beluga Slough salt marsh. The trip was funded […]

During dock trials in San Diego Harbor recently, the rebuilt and upgraded submersible Alvin underwent an incline test while attached to the stern of its support ship, Read More

Giant clams, some up to one foot long, line nooks in the seafloor off the Galápagos Islands where warm fluids flow up through cracks in rocks and feed the clams. […]

R/V Knorr Bosun Peter Liarikos and Shipboard Scientific Services Group technician Amy Simoneau release a catch of rock specimens collected with a dredge near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Scientists on […]

In spring 2013, WHOI engineer Jeff Lord stopped in the middle of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to fix a buoy’s electronics. He and his colleagues, who study […]

After years of observing albatrosses on the high seas, WHOI oceanographer Phil Richardson combined his interests in waves, sailing, flying, and physics to figure how the large seabirds extract […]

Marine chemist Zhaohui “Aleck” Wang recently tested an instrument he developed in collaboration with WHOI engineers for his research on ocean acidification and the carbon cycle. This […]

Could a robotic vehicle follow a live, moving shark in the ocean? Engineers in WHOI’s Oceanographic Systems Lab took up that challenge, creating a system called SharkCam. It allowed […]

The WHOI ship Atlantis II tied up at the dock in Woods Hole on December 13, 1977, with 11 seamen rescued from the Puerto Rican freighter Ensenada on board. Sipping hot […]

Visitors to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution Ocean Science Exhibit Center take turns at navigating a radio controlled sub through a mock hydrothermal vent field. The activity allows […]

Students and volunteers search a beach along the Gulf of Mexico for “sand paddies,” clumps of sand and oil. The sand paddies they collected were logged into a weathered […]