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Scientific instruments go into the water off the back of the ship, from an area called the fantail. Here, a pair of bongo nets— they look like a pair […]

A trio of Emperor penguins appear to inspect a sled full of equipment during an Antarctic expedition in January. The team of researchers, led by Stan Jacobs of Lamont […]

A crane lifts WHOI’s newest vehicle, Nereus, off the dock and into the water for testing before it is sent to the “show” — the Challenger Deep in […]

A moored profiler is deployed from research vessel Oceanus in the western subtropical North Atlantic for climate change studies. Moored profilers take repeated measurements of ocean currents and […]

Earth is an ocean planet. More than 70% of its surface is covered by ocean with an average depth of just over two miles. But how much water is […]

Donor Hope Smith christens the R/V Tioga on March 29, 2004, as then-WHOI Director of Marine Operations Dick Pittenger looks on. The name Tioga comes from the Iroquois for […]

The return of the famed osprey pair to the nest on the WHOI Quissett Campus is a sure sign that spring has almost sprung. Ospreys, which dine almost exclusively […]

A multi-institutional team of researchers, led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian, are in the Arctic’s Bering Sea to study sea ice and how climate change could be affecting the […]

Since its delivery to Woods Hole on April 16, 2004, the coastal research vessel Tioga, shown here approaching the WHOI dock, has been used to collect water samples during […]

Engineer Jim Valdes observes a SOLO (Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer) float‘s response to commands in a test tank facility. Autonomous instruments that drift with the currents while measuring […]

Eric Benway from WHOI Marine Operations (center) points out the proposed new alignment of channel markers in Great Harbor to Al Suchy, Director of Ship Operations at […]

Maurice Tivey, a geologist at WHOI, addressed an international group of scientists, policymakers, environmentalists, and industry representatives who gathered at WHOI in early April 2009 for a workshop and […]

Atlantis was the first Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel and the first ship built specifically for interdisciplinary research in marine biology, marine geology and physical […]

What looks like a lime-green sheet of paper is actually a mat of algae. Harmful algal blooms, like this one in West Falmouth Harbor, Mass., can occur in coastal […]

Diane Poehls Adams, a guest investigator in the Biology Department, cultures blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) from larvae to mature adults in an effort to learn which are most […]

Postdoctoral scholar Adam Reitzel collecting the “starlet sea anemone”, Nematostella vectensis, at Great Sippewissett Marsh. Adam and other members of Ann Tarrant’s lab in the Biology department are […]

The bright yellow “ScanFish II,” a new towed vehicle that takes samples while it flies up and down in the water, and the Video Plankton Recorder (background) are stowed […]