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Postdoctoral researcher Justin Ries, working with Anne Cohen and Dan McCorkle in the WHOI Geology and Geophysics Department, grew this tropical pencil urchin (Eucidaris tribuloides) and […]

WHOI postdoctoral fellow Chip Breier is working to put a new deep-sea particle sampling device on the remotely operated vehicle Jason to collect samples in hard-to-access places. […]

WHOI coastal geologist Ilya Buynevich, right, and Lithuanian colleague Albertas Bitinas use ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to map ancient surfaces beneath Baltic Sea dunes. They are […]

In the fall of 2003, the Arctic Edge science team returned to the Western Arctic Ocean to retrieve and redeploy an array of moorings placed in 2002 to observe […]

A panoply of uncommon stories and specimens passes through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility. In May 2007, a team of biologists and veterinarians used the […]

Small crustaceans called mysids, shown here swarming in the ocean, might serve as “canaries in the coal mine” indictating when marine environments are being exposed to chemicals that […]

The research vessel Crawford is tied up at the WHOI pier with the wing of a P5 Marlin (P5M) seaplane strapped to its side in 1960. “An attempt […]

WHOI postdoctoral fellow Mar Nieto-Cid adds seawater to a filtration system in the main laboratory of the research vessel Oceanus during a cruise in the North Atlantic in […]

An ice axe is an indispensable tool for navigating on ice. Explorers use them to probe the snow ahead to see how deep it is, to stop themselves when […]

A helicopter from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star deploys one of five ocean-bottom hydrophones to record sound waves generated by any earthquakes or eruptions near Read More

WHOI staff link up and swim together as part of their small boat safety training course in spring 2008. Scientific and technical staff who wish to pilot the Institution’s […]

Ellen Murphy, a high school student from Minnesota, and Chris Reddy, WHOI marine chemist, examine samples of plastic in Reddy’s laboratory in May 2008. Murphy, Reddy, and other […]

Graduate students Chris Murphy (in the water), Rogelio Morales-Garcia (holding the instrument), and Clayton Kunz work to calibrate a camera system in the new test tank in […]

In July 2008, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington spread a harmless red dye into the meltwater on top of the Greenland ice sheet. The team […]

The Sun sets over the North Atlantic and the bow of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008 during an expedition off the edge of the continental shelf southeast […]

In March 2008, University of Rhode Island graduate student Pat Kelley (top, middle) and crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy use a Zodiac to recover […]

The fantail and decks of the research vessel Chain are stuffed with buoys while docked at the WHOI pier in 1958. Once a U.S. Navy salvage vessel, Chain […]

Mike Gagne (in the basket) and Nate Lavoie (on the mast) from WHOI’s ship operations group work to remove unused cable, mounts, and antennas from the top of the […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Carly Strasser sieves mud to find juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) in the summer of 2005 in an estuary in Calves Pasture, Barnstable, Mass. Strasser, […]