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WHOI volunteer George LeRoy packs 70-year-old biological samples for shipping to the Zoologisk Museum in Copenhagen. WHOI biologists Mary Sears and Henry Bryant Bigelow had borrowed the Pacific […]

Rocky Geyer (left) and postdoctoral scholar Dave Ralston (now a WHOI assistant scientist) remove instruments from a mooring on the working deck of the research vessel Tioga […]

Marine mammal specialist Michael Moore (left) and MIT/WHOI student Regina Campbell-Malone (now a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI and Brown University) use fine lines to suspend the skeleton of […]

The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry is lowered into the North Atlantic for deep-ocean testing during a cruise on the R/V Oceanus in April 2008. Engineers are in the final […]

A humpback whale dips just below the surface in the Hawaiian breeding
grounds between Maui and Lanai. The whale approached researchers in response to their playback of a recording of […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program students wash dishes after a meal on a windjammer off the coast of Maine during the June 2007 field trip that capped the annual Geodynamics Seminar […]

WHOI geologist Rob Evans (left) testifies before the Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, of the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2005. Each year, dozens of […]

The research vessel Knorr and the Iselin Marine Facility serve as the backdrop for the first commencement ceremonies for the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in 1970. The program’s […]

Researchers aboard the R/V Oceanus affix a hose to the CTD rosette (frame) to collect large-volume water samples with a pump system during a May 2008 expedition in New England […]

Joseph Keller of Stanford University prepares to take a swing at a pitch from George Veronis of Yale University on WHOI’s McKee Ballfield during a summer softball game. Keller […]

A cross-section of a marsh at Barn Island, Conn., shows light-colored layers of sand laid down by Hurricane Carol in 1954 (at 10 centimeters) and the 1938 Hurricane (at 14 […]

Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Thousands of lakes form every summer on top of Greenland’s glaciers, as sunlight and […]

WHOI microbiologist John Waterbury examines phytoplankton samples in his lab in the Stanley W. Watson Biogeochemistry Building. Today Waterbury is joining MIT biologist Penny Chisholm and WHOI biologist […]

Researchers from WHOI and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography carry an instrument tower into the surf near La Jolla, California, to measure the movement of water beneath the breaking […]

WHOI employees, benfactors, and shipyard workers gathered on March 29, 2004, for the ceremonial blessing and launch of the coastal research vessel Tioga. The name Tioga comes from the […]

For several weeks in the summers of 2006 and 2007, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington camped on top of Greenland’s ice sheet in order to study […]

Born in Holzminden, Germany, on May 23, 1927, Holger Jannasch pioneered the field of deep-sea microbiology. Inspired by the condition of the food in the infamous Alvin lunch […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Diane Poehls Adams (now a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health) prepares biological samples for genetic analysis in the spring of 2004. Read More

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield investigated clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kjetil Våge operates a winch on the working deck of the research vessel Oceanus during an expedition in the North Atlantic in November 2007. Våge, […]