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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 “swift…

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 on…

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 region’s…

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 harmful…

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 ocean temperature…

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 WHOI. A meeting…

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 public…

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 oceanography.  The “A-boat” made…

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 waters…

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 successful in…

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 interested in…

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 on…

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 robot, which is…

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 commercial…