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The Asterias (foreground) welcomes the Chain home from a 20-month, around-the-world cruise in 1970-71 that took investigators to the North and South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Somali Current, the…

Woods Hole Sea Grant Aquaculture and Fisheries Specialist Bill Walton explains how oysters are raised to the co-hosts of TV’s Aqua Kids program, James and Molly. The cast and crew…

In winter 2007, Hugh Powell, a freelance science writer, filed daily dispatches from Ross Island, Antarctica, on Expedition 3 of WHOI’s Live from the Poles. Expedition members camped out in…

An orange-speckled snail, Cyphoma gibbosum, munches its way up one of its favorite meals, a purple gorgonian with brown grass-like polyps named Biareum asbestinum, known locally as “dead man’s fingers”…

John Kemp of the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department goes over the side in a ship’s basket to take hold of a 4,000-meter mooring being retrieved in heavy…

A R/V Knorr refit from 1989-1991 included lengthening the vessel by 33 feet (10 meters) to 279 feet (85 meters). The ship was cut in half at McDermott Shipyard in…

Open-ocean SCUBA diving from research vessels began to reveal more about the world of jellies during cruises in the 1970s. To make their collections and observations and avoid becoming lost…

Probably the most familiar jellies are jellyfish, such as this one—technically called medusae, and belonging to two divisions of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are predators that use tentacles studded with…

WHOI scientists set up an isolated research camp in the cold Dry Valleys in Antarctica in December 2007 on a month-long expedition to explore how the volcanic landscape formed and…

Scientists aboard the Australian research vessel Aurora Australis studied the natural cycling of iron in the Southern Ocean in 2001. Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,…

As the Institution’s fourth director, from 1958 to 1977, Paul Fye presided over a period of major change. It was a time of great national interest in basic science, including…

In 1969, the barge Florida ran aground off Cape Cod, spilling 189,000 gallons of fuel. Prevailing winds blew oil from the barge into Wild Harbor in Falmouth, Mass., where decades…

Physical oceanographer Amy Bower leads a group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind to the WHOI dock for an onboard tour of the R/V Oceanus. Students from…

Biologist Alfred Redfield in his lab, circa 1955. Redfield joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931 and was Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. His broad marine research…