Multimedia Items

Orcas (Orcinus orca), also called Killer Whales, sometimes spy-hop — hold their heads and upper bodies out of the water to look for prey. This Orca bides his time as…

An aerial view of Canada’s Mackenzie River Delta, where marine geochemists Tim Eglinton, Daniel Montluçon, and geologist Liviu Giosan are looking for clues to past climate change. During 2009 Spring…

Oceanographer Emeritus and biologist George Hampson (center) and Hovey Clifford (blue shirt) retired WHOI  dockmaster and present CPR teacher and EMT  showing  Summer Student Fellows Yadira Ibarra (left) and Abigail…

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”.) Each…

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 geodesic…

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, Gilbert…

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 and Woods Hole Research Center. In…

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 TowCam during…

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 range of methods…

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 former…

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 by continents…

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 sheet…

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 Auto Detection Mooring…

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 of…

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…