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A group of women wearing traditional Indian saris and the colorful forehead decoration known as bindi take a moment during WHOI’s Diwali Night celebration to pose for a photo. Diwali […]

WHOI geologist and earthquake expert Jian Lin arrived on New Zealand’s South Island two days after the deadly 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck that region on Feb. 22. Lin […]

The ocean is teeming with life—most of which you can’t see. Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, has helped invent a new instrument to view […]

Marine chemist Elizabeth Kujawinski (standing), researcher Melissa Kido Soule (seated), and colleagues recently found that a main component of a chemical dispersant used during the Deepwater Horizon spill […]

In 1948, Nat Corwin (above) made his first cruise on a WHOI vessel, sailing aboard the original Atlantis to the Mediterranean. He later sailed as chief scientist aboard Read More

In September 2010 off the coast of Oregon, the Jason team, with help from the captain and crew of the NOAA research vessel R/V Thomas G. Thompson, recovered […]

Pilot Mike Skowronski (foreground) conducts a post-dive check of Alvin‘s starboard manipulator arm. Some 75 space shuttle pilots have flown missions, but since 1965, the job of driving […]

WHOI scientists and students take a break while hiking to see the Ocean Crust Transition exposed in the Swiss and Italian Alps during the 2010 Geodynamics Study Tour. The field […]

At the port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, workers prepare to bring two yellow NOMAD buoys aboard the R/V Roger Revelle in July, 2010. The buoys were too large to be […]

Chemist Mak Saito and colleagues recently reported that a marine bacterium recycles and reuses a scarce nutrient, iron. Crocosphaera watsonii disassembles iron-containing enzymes used by night and builds […]

In December 2010, R/V Atlantis docked in Jacksonville, Florida, for periodic maintenance, during which time the submersible Alvin was removed from the ship and trucked back to Woods […]

In an effort to avert lethal collisions between ships and endangered right whales, 10 buoy systems (purple dots) were installed in the Boston Harbor shipping lanes, beginning in […]

After the last dive of any Alvin cruise the sub’s crew and science party get out on deck to take the skins off the vehicle and scrub everything down […]

A camera strategically perched on top of the research vessel Atlantis’s A-frame, captures the submersible Alvin as it is recovered from a dive in April 2010. […]

Ellen Murphy, a high school student from Minnesota, examines samples of plastic in WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy’s laboratory in May 2008. Murphy, Reddy, and other lab technicians and […]

In December 2010, the deep-submergence vehicle Alvin was trucked to Woods Hole from Jacksonville, Florida, where its support ship R/V Atlantis is undergoing routine maintenance. Alvin was then […]