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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 vessel…

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 that…

WHOI volunteer Peter Partridge explains the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus during a recent public event about deep ocean trenches. Partridge, who served aboard the Navy support vessel for Trieste,…

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 of…

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 Coast…

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 normal…

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 the…

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 Palmer…

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 Coast…

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 (Conservación, Información…

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 years…

The sights of summer in Antarctica invariably include ice. Researcher Emelia DeForce captured this image of a well-worn iceberg in January 2013, the height of austral summer during a cruise…

Visiting graduate student Inge van Dijk looks for minuscule organisms known as foraminifera in sediments from a salt marsh near South Cape Beach on Cape Cod. She brought the tiny…