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Cyanobacteria and other microbiota produce thick mats that bind sedimentary particles and can form stromatolites such as these crusting a pool in Shark Bay, Australia. Because they include hard components […]

Able Seaman Susan Coleman makes repairs to R/V Knorr while out at sea. She was participating in the DynAMITE (Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment) cruise […]

Often it’s the smallest creatures that tell us about the largest climate issues. Summer Student Fellow Max Kaplan, visiting from St. Andrew’s in Scotland, turned to the recently hatched longfin […]

The remotely operated vehicle Jason, seen here being recovered after a mission, was designed and built by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI to give scientists access to […]

Workers load a stretch hose onto the resarch vessel R/V Wecoma for the Inshore Mooring Test 2 (ISMT2) in Newport, Oregon, in March as part of the Ocean […]

WHOI microbial ecologist Rebecca Gast checks the distances between sample sites on the beach at Duck, N.C., as research associate Levi Gorrell places a coring tube and physical oceanographer […]

Crystal Breier, Kamila Stastna, Ken Buesseler, and Sachiko Yoshida (left to right) draw water from a rosette sampler in June 2011 on board the R/V Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa. The cruise was […]

Icebergs catch the morning light outside Sermilik Fjord near the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. Massive icebergs like these break off from outlet glaciers that connect directly to […]

Researchers gather samples of mud from a blue pool near the edge of Shark Bay, Australia. Blue pools are small bodies of water that are much more salty than seawater. […]

At Camp Barneo, an ice camp near the North Pole, WHOI senior research specialist Rick Krishfield “talks” to an Ice-Tethered Profiler, to ensure that it’s functioning properly before […]

R/V Knorr recently visited the Faroe Islands (in background) at the tail-end of a month-long cruise to investigate the origins of a newly discovered current flowing south […]

Jim Valdes holds a float that was deployed on a recent sampling mission to Line W across the Gulf Stream and Deep Western Boundary Current. The float contains the ashes […]

U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) listens while Vice President for Marine Operations, Rob Munier (right) explains the depth and breadth of WHOI’s involvement in response to the Deep […]

In May, a panel of nearly 150 leaders of large research infrastructure programs visited WHOI for the Annual Review Meeting of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). On Sept. 17 […]

Invasive sea squirts establish themselves in tidal areas, crowd out native species in their path, and pose a threat to protected species of eelgrass. WHOI biologist Mary Carman (at […]

William McLean, mate on the Sea Education Association’s SSV Corwith Cramer, teaches MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) students celestial navigation using a sextant during the annual Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Every […]