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Looking like a collection of bubbles, this pyrosome (the name means “fire body”) is a cylindrical colony, 7 centimeters (2.75 inch) long, made up of individual animals (the “bubbles”.) […]

They look like space stations, but actually are colonial forms of single-celled organisms called radiolarians, collected in the deep Celebes Sea. The white blobs are individual cells, and the […]

Norman Farr, of the Applied
Ocean Physics & Engineering department, shows a group of elite runners
from Kenya  — (from left to right) Richard Limo, James Koskei,
Felix Limo, […]

Boats fill Eel Pond in the village of Woods Hole —home to several world-renowned
research organizations, including the Marine Biological
Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution […]

On board the R/V Thomas Thompson cruise TN230 on the Kermadec Arc north of New Zealand, marine geologist Dan Fornari (in boots) steadies the imaging and sampling vehicle […]

Scientists of the “Inner Space Speciation Project”—a four-week expedition led by WHOI biologist Larry Madin to look for new species in Southeast Asia’s Celebes Sea—used a wide […]

Aquatic environments pose challenges for disease-causing bacteria that are adapted to live in humans and other animals. One of those is being eaten by protists, single-celled organisms that are the […]

Airplanes don’t typically come to mind when people think of ocean science. But for 25 years, beginning in 1945, WHOI maintained five planes for research. Read more about this Read More

The main reason why Antarctica is colder than the
Arctic is that Antarctica is a continent surrounded by an ocean. The Arctic is an ocean almost completely surrounded […]

From the air, Greenland’s ice sheet looked like white molasses oozing
down the mountainside and into the sea. Researchers are investigating Greenland’s glacial lakes, which form atop the
ice […]

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center Manager Kathy Patterson and Senior Engineer Don Peters (in baseball caps at center and far right) explain the new Read More

George Hampson, left, and Steve Page carefully extract collected sediment from the deep-sea epibenthic sled.  The sled, developed in the mid-1960s, was towed horizontally to collect the uppermost part […]

A one-armed protractor, used for laying out ship tracks,  rests on top of a map of the ‘Rumble III’ volcano, located in the Kermadec arc, north northeast of
New Zealand. […]

In Antarctica, fierce winds blow plumes of snow out to sea and erase most of the 400 mile long Ross Ice Shelf from view. As global climate warms, […]

New graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program gather alongside ship’s crew on the deck of the Corwith Cramer for the annual Sea Education Association (SEA) Jake […]