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As the oceans become more acidic due to the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, marine scientists are studying how organisms, such as the developing squid shown here, […]

Genetic material in seawater provides WHOI biologist Annette Govindarajan with clues to investigate species in the ocean twilight zone. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods […]

WHOI computer tech BL Owens waves goodbye to the schooner Corwith Cramer as it leaves its Woods Hole dock with her husband Breck Owens in June 2007. The week-long cruise, […]

Dongsha Atoll is a remote coral reef ecosystem in the South China Sea, about two meters below sea level. With no solid ground from which to work, researchers from Anne […]

A plucky Adelie penguin clears a meltwater stream stained brown by the acres of guano it has trickled through. “The Adelie is this really tough little character that doesn’t have […]

WHOI geologist Konrad Hughen took this photo during a 2015 expedition to conduct coral reef surveys and obtain coral core samples on several reefs within the Chagos Archipelago, […]

In a sign that the current maintenance period for the research vessel Atlantis is almost completed, yard workers at the Mares Island Naval Ship Yard recently flooded the drydock where […]

Molly Anderson, a master’s student at Boise State University, takes a close look at the inside of a piece of basalt recently recovered from the seafloor by the human-occupied […]

Emperor penguin chicks hatch into the frozen world of Antarctica—one of Earth’s most inhospitable places. A recent study reveals what the juveniles do in the critical early months […]

At sea, it helps to know your equipment inside and out. Here, Dalton Hardisty from Michigan State University, Alysia Cox from Montana Tech, and Drew Syverson from Yale University test […]

Two Galapagos Swallow Tailed Gulls glide in the sky above the R/V Atlantis during a 2010 expedition. The birds, which are the only fully nocturnal gulls and seabirds in […]

Hydrothermal vent crabs thrive under enough pressure to crush a car, but can survive at the surface for months or more. They also regularly move between the cold of […]

In 1986, when the shuttle orbiter Atlantis flew its second mission, WHOI Director John H. Steele was among those invited to witness the nighttime launch, because the shuttle was […]

Tiny. Ubiquitous. Vital. Delicate. Vulnerable. All these words describe pteropods (“wing-foot”). These marine snails are also called “sea butterflies” because of their winglike swimming appendages. Masses of pteropods drift […]

Puffins in Iceland are one of the many interests of WHOI acoustic biologist Aran Mooney. During a recent trip to Husavik on the north shore of the island, members of […]

In her experiments to investigate antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the ocean, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Megan May grew bacteria collected from beaches in petri dishes. She […]