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Most oceanographic survey instruments look down at the seafloor. On a recent trip to the Southern Ocean, though, members of Hanu Singh’s lab equipped one of their SeaBED […]

Vic Miller pulls an exhaust duct into place to vacuum up the resin dust left after he and fellow mechanic Joe Harvey sanded a large piece of syntactic foam. The […]

People living near rivers can become “citizen scientists” to aid research focusing on Earth’s river systems in a time of changing climate. Leaders of the Global Rivers Observatory […]

WHOI research specialist Daniel Torres, dressed for cold even in August, watches wire pay out from a winch to deploy a mooring in the ocean off Norway. Torres was aboard […]

On a 2012 research cruise in Antarctica, WHOI postdoctoral scientist Peter Kimball helped use the robotic vehicle Jaguar to map the underside of the ice. But […]

WHOI post-doctoral scholar Ben Harden waits to capture a dramatic moment at sea: A mooring anchor, released off the stern of the British research ship James Clark Ross, sinks […]

When the Blizzard Nemo blew through New England on February 9, 2013, much of Cape Cod, including the town of Falmouth and parts of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lost power […]

The same organisms that have plagued mariners for thousands of years have also been a problem for oceanographers deploying moored instruments. Here, barnacles, algae, and other organisms cover the […]

In December, two sections of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, were joined together in the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes, Wash. The ship is being constructed […]

WHOI engineer Bob Tavares headed up to the roof of the Clark South building recently to check on an Argo SOLO-I float deployed in the 10-meter test well. The Read More

Trevor Harrison takes a spin in a kayak outfitted as an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). A team consisting of Trevor, Peter Kimball, Peter Traykovski, John Bailey, Clay […]

In the aftermath of Blizzard Nemo, WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga (shown here in 2005) found itself speeding out to sea on a rescue mission. The storm cast adrift […]

When studying sea ice on the Antarctic coastline, scientists have to be prepared for just about anything, including gaps in the landscape. Guy Williams, an Australian researcher on the recent […]

A snow petrel, photographed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment (SIPEX-II) in fall 2012, floats over the ocean off Antarctica. These seabirds depend on sea ice, which serves as a grazing ground […]

A REMUS 100 “ICEBOT” autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is prepared for a July 2012 mission to map the hazard-filled edge of a glacier in Southwest Greenland. Once the team, […]