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Calvin Mordy, a scientist at Aquatic Solutions, prepares his gear to work on the ice. Mordy is one of 41 scientists aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy on an […]

Like a tiny town in a snowglobe visited by a huge red sleigh, Palmer Station, Antarctica (seen here in 2002), gets regular stopovers from the ice-strengthened research ship Read More

R/V Oceanus headed out from shore in fall 2007, little knowing what lay ahead. The cruise was to recover a buoy measuring waves and a mooring from the CLIMODE […]

Can a cuttlefish hear?
A magnetic resonance image (MRI) reveals the internal anatomy of a cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). WHOI postdoctoral scholar Aran Mooney, senior scientist Darlene Ketten, and […]

Navy Rear Admiral Nevin P. Carr (left) touring WHOI the REMUS lab recently with Ocean Systems Lab Principal Engineer Tom Austin. The autonomous vehicles are designed for coastal […]

Hundreds of thick-billed murres — medium-sized seabirds that resemble penguins — skitter in every direction along the icy waters of the Bering Sea as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy […]

When on an icebreaker, you’d better dress for it! Science writer Helen Fields learned how to don an immersion suit, also called a “Gumby suit,” on the second day […]

WHOI postdoctoral scientist Aran Mooney, shown here in the WHOI Computerized Scanning and Imaging facility, studies marine animal hearing. He and colleagues recently investigated the effects of sonar […]

Chief Scientist John Toole watches from the the R/V Oceanus as a team in a small boat sets out to perform repairs on a surface mooring in […]

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 […]