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MIT/WHOI graduate student Ari Shapiro takes a break from listening to the vocalizations of narwhals. His computer screen shows a spectrogram—a plot of sound frequency versus time— of one […]

Bosun Peter Liarikos works with the “dog dish” so named for its shape on the new long-coring instrument on the research vessel Knorr. The dog dish contains all […]

WHOI science writer Mike Carlowicz interviews NOAA scientist Sigrid Salo during a flight from Resolute Bay, Canada, to Canadian Forces Station Alert. Along for the flight to Alert […]

Konrad Hughen, a paleoclimatologist in the WHOI Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, recently worked with archaeologist and anthropologists to show that Neanderthals probably did not die […]

This “colonial” jelly a siphonophore of the Rosacea genus was spied in April 2006 by divers in the blue waters of the Sargasso Sea during a Census of […]

Students Jinbo Wang (left) and Evgeny Logvinov help conduct a Rossby wave experiment in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as part of a graduate course. Red dye was […]

WHOI seafloor geologist Dan Fornari and then-graduate student Tracey Gregg inspect a portion of a lava pillar that was generated during a 1991 eruption on the East […]

Despite their lumbering appearance, manatees are graceful swimmers and to many, a vanishing symbol of wild Florida. Researchers from WHOI and several science and conservation institutions hope digital […]

The lights are on, but (almost) nobody’s home on a Saturday night in Woods Hole in March 2007. From left to right stand the Candle House and Visitor Center […]

Researchers and technicians from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boarded and refurbished the “Middle Atlantic” buoy of the National Data Buoy Center network during an April 2007 expedition. […]

Bryn Warren, guest student in the WHOI Biology Department, and WHOI postdoctoral fellow Luciano Fernandes process mud samples collected from the Gulf of Maine in October 2007. The researchers […]

The science party on the research vessel Knorr looks forward to its homecoming in Woods Hole after two weeks at sea testing the new Long Core system. […]

Able seaman Ronnie Whims, part of the crew of the research vessel Oceanus, plucks out a tune on his guitar while resting on the ship’s port-side deck near a […]

Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel […]

The research vessel Knorr stands tall amid the pleasure boats and working boats at a dock in Reykjavik harbor. The ship put in some port time in Iceland before […]