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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 […]

Harmful algae blooms (“red tide”) commonly occur in the Gulf of Maine in spring. Blooms result from the rapid reproduction of toxic algae called Alexandrium when their seed-like resting stages […]

More than two-thirds of Earth’s crust is created along seafloor spreading ridges, yet scientists rarely have a chance to observe the process is action. An event along the East Pacific […]

Sentry, a new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) built by engineers at WHOI, is loaded onto the R/V Tioga for testing operations during December 2007. The free-swimming underwater […]

This sulfide structure is part of the “Bio 9” hydrothermal vent at 9 degrees north on the East Pacific Rise. Deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems are attracting considerable interest from […]

WHOI summer student fellow Zack Bailey (Indiana State University) and cruise volunteer Pradeep Ranasinghage (Kent State University) collect seawater from the Niskin bottles on a CTD rosette, in June […]

R/V Oceanus captain Diego Mello looks out for traffic as he guides the ship into the port of Gibraltar. The research vessel stopped at Gibraltar to refuel on its […]

In March 2008 the icebreaker USCGC Healy carried researchers led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian to sample in nearly 200 locations in the Bering Sea. The cruise was supported […]