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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President & Director Susan Avery checks out the sphere of the newly remodeled Alvin with Deep Submergence Vehicle expedition leader Bruce Strickrott. Built in 1964 […]

WHOI biologist Andrea Bogomolni spoke about some of Cape Cod’s most charismatic predators (and prey) during the WHOI public event White Sharks, Gray Seals on August 7, 2013. […]

The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program brings undergraduates to WHOI for a summer of ocean science. A memorable day for students is the annual science cruise on WHOI’s coastal […]

Slocum gliders move horizontally by changing their buoyancy at the top and bottom of each pre-programmed dive. More importantly, they move through the water silently. This is allowing a team […]

WHOI volunteer Peter Partridge explains the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus during a recent public event about deep ocean trenches. Partridge, […]

Even when they’re in port, crewmembers of WHOI research vessels are hard at work honing the skills that make ocean science on the high seas possible—and safe. Here, crew […]

Explorer and director James Cameron testified in support of ocean research with WHOI president and director Susan K. Avery before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and […]

Casey Zakroff, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, adjusts transparent plastic cups in a water bath. The cups hold squid eggs in seawater bubbled with air containing […]

Carolyn Garrity, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from the University of Maine, searches for specimens of benthic organisms in sediment collected from the bottom of Buzzards Bay. Each year […]

On her first day in Antarctica, WHOI research associate Emelia Deforce photographed the R/V Laurence M. Gould docked on Anvers Island, which is home to the U.S. Antarctic Program’s […]

Early in the twentieth century, oceanographers used a device called a bathythermograph (BT) to record water temperature beneath the surface on glass slides coated with smoke and oil to. Invented […]

Vermont teacher Doug Jaquette views an image of himself taken by a thermographic camera, which senses and records infrared (IR) radiation. The amount of IR radiation emitted by objects is […]

The U.S. Coast Guard awards Arctic Service Medals to anyone who spends 21 days north of 66° 33′ north latitude. By the end of a recent cruise on the Read More

A pod of long-finned pilot whales surface in the busy Strait of Gibraltar. The whales are the focus of a joint study by scientists from WHOI and CIRCE […]

Loaded with buoys, the WHOI research vessel Oceanus left the WHOI dock in 1990 on one of the more than 500 missions it performed for scientists over the 35 […]