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Adélie penguins are one of the three brush-tail penguin species that live exclusively on and around Antarctica. Individuals return to the same breeding colony every year to mate and hatch […]

In November, 2011, while in the Mediterranean Sea on a Dive & Discover research mission, R/V Atlantis rescued 93 men from a foundering fishing boat. The ship’s crew […]

The Synergy Project paired scientists and artists to create science-inspired works of art. WHOI biologist Elizabeth Halliday (right) collaborated with Janine Wong, a graphic designer and book artist, to […]

On Saturday, May 25, R/V Atlantis left Woods Hole for the Panama Canal and Astoria, Oregon, carrying the newly overhauled and upgraded submersible Alvin and accompanied by WHOI’s […]

During the recent upgrade of the submersible Alvin, Bob McCabe (left) and Rod Catanach (center) carefully lowered a custom-built piece of syntactic foam onto the sub’s personnel sphere while Alvin […]

WHOI engineer Matthew Adams labels a mooring anchor that will be deployed later this year as part of the Ocean Observatory Initiative‘s Pioneer Array. The array is one of […]

This year, after a visit with WHOI scientists, Falmouth High School senior Tyler Ragonese crafted a ceramic sea star that he attached to a bowl. This spring the finished product, […]

In March, members and guests of the Falmouth, Mass., Chamber of Commerce met at WHOI’s Ocean Science Discovery Center to network and learn about the Institution. The Center’s director […]

On May 13, 2013, the overhaul and upgrade of the submersible Alvin took a giant leap towards completion when the sub was transferred from the WHOI dock back […]

Deep submergence vehicle pilot Bob Waters has years of experience with both the submersible Alvin and the remotely-operated vehicle Jason. During the Alvin upgrade and reassembly […]

WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara, who is working with a team to upgrade the deep-sea submersible Alvin, uses a three-dimensional software design program to plan the arrangement of the […]

A brand-new surface mooring buoy is lifted by crane onto R/V Oceanus, on its way to a 2011 test deployment in the ocean south of Cape Cod. The prototype […]

Summer at WHOI means college students on campus for the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship. In August 2012, Columbia University’s Sebastian Vivancos, a student in the Department of Earth and […]

Up and down, East and West, and inner and outer space all met at WHOI May 6, 2013, when Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (left, in dark jacket) visited Woods Hole […]

Yesterday, May 13, the submersible Alvin achieved a major milestone in its extensive overhaul when it returned to the stern of its support ship, R/V Atlantis for the […]

A team of technicians, engineers, and pilots installs a block of syntactic foam around the personnel sphere of the upgraded Alvin submarine. Syntactic foam is composed of a matrix […]