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Scientists have long thought that new ocean crust was only formed at spreading centers, where tectonic plates separate and allow magma to emerge from below. WHOI geophysicist Dan […]

Data from a Nortek DW Aquadopp current monitor is downloaded and analyzed after the instrument spent two years in the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland, where important subsurface currents cross […]

A polar bear tried (and failed) to scramble onto a too-small ice floe in the Denmark Strait in August 2012 during a cruise led by WHOI physical oceanographer Bob […]

Research vessel Knorr passes through a manmade channel out of St. George’s in Bermuda during a March 2007 expedition to the Northwest Atlantic deep boundary current, lead by […]

Bob Tavares, manager of the WHOI Float Lab, prepares SOLO II floats for an ARGO research mission to explore the structure of currents in the South Atlantic. […]

Two red-hulled icebreakers, the Laurence M. Gould (foreground) and the larger Nathaniel B. Palmer, both frequently used by WHOI researchers, docked in Chile between expeditions in spring 2011. WHOI researcher […]

Engineer George Tupper began designing, building, and maintaining oceanographic instruments in the 1970s, including these current meters on display at WHOI. During his career spent two to three […]

This summer, 32 students from 30 colleges and universities traveled to Cape Cod from the around the United States and four other countries to participate in WHOI’s Summer Student […]

In September, WHOI took delivery of a very special piece of equipment—a redesigned titanium frame for the submersible Alvin. In December 2010, after Alvin was pulled from service, it […]

WHOI President and Director Susan Avery joined Willie May, Associate Director for Laboratory Programs and Principal Deputy at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the traditional ribbon-cutting […]

Brown University graduate student Jess Rodysill, guest student Lance Croft, and WHOI researcher Richard Sullivan (left to right) set up an aeolian (wind-blown) sediment trap this summer on Florida’s Santa […]

In July, MIT/WHOI Joint Program students joined MIT students and WHOI staff for a walked through a lava tube, a natural tunnel that forms under volcanoes, in Hawai’i […]

Deep-sea shrimp thrive at one of the planet’s hottest black smoker hydrothermal vents, where the temperature of expelled fluids measured 400°C (about 750°F). The “smoke” consists of dark, fine-grained […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop assisted Rene Swift (above) from the Miller Lab at the University of St. Andrews in tagging humpback whales off Ilse […]

WHOI shipboard technician Dave Sims (left) and assistants wrangle a CTD rosette on a rainy night aboard the R/V Atlantis. During the April 2012 cruise, researchers measured currents […]

In August, WHOI research associate Philip Alatalo helped net and preserve plankton (and at least one sea star) from the Chukchi Sea, off the coast of Alaska. The samples were […]

In January 2012, an international research group aboard research vessel Atlantis completed an expedition to study the world’s deepest-known hydrothermal vents, at the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean. The group, led by […]