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WHOI engineers and scientists developed the “Arctic winch” in order to reach up and take critical measurements of surface waters in polar oceans, while minimizing the risk of […]

Sophie (left) and Nancy Edson await on the WHOI dock for the return of Jim Edson marine meteorologist, husband, and father. A former WHOI scientist, now at the University […]

The WHOI-built Giant Gravity Core is deployed by technicians and crew members of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy in the Bering Sea in June 2003. This sediment collector […]

Dust storms can sweep iron-rich particles from the continents into the atmosphere, and these “mineral aerosols” then fall into, or are rained into, the oceans. Once in the water, […]

Assistant Curator Ellen Roosen examines cores in the WHOI Seafloor Samples Laboratory, which houses some 24,000 core sections from more than 3,800 seafloor sites. (Photo by Tom […]

Sediments accumulate over time in layers on the seafloor, and they typically contain fossil shells of surface-dwelling microscopic marine animals. These shells incorporate radiocarbon and other isotopes from seawater […]

Arctic researcher Peter Winsor describes some ocean profiling equipment to a group of teachers during a tour for the WHOI Teachers Workshop. The workshops are held twice each […]

Scientists have adapted a low-frequency sonar system originally designed to survey seafloor geology to identify fish and zooplankton. The research team towed a low-frequency broadband imaging sonar near schools […]

Associate Scientist Hanumant Singh examines his new “Camper” the CAMera and samPlER sled a tethered, remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that was specially developed for research under the Arctic ice […]

WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy collects and examines oil-covered rocks at Nyes Neck in West Falmouth, Mass., following the April 2003 spill from the Bouchard 120 oil barge. […]

Shipboard science services technician Ken Feldman (left) and ordinary seaman Patrick Neumann work to deploy a sea anchor as part of the process of “recovering” Alvin (bringing it back […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Casey Saenger soaks up the mist of the Oxafoss waterfall in Thingvellir National Park during the spring 2006 Geodynamics Field Trip to Iceland.  The […]

Looking fresh and bright after a year in cold water, an acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) emerges from Hudson Strait, onto the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Pierre Radisson. The […]

Clare M. Williams a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, examines a rock collected from the seafloor to analyze its magnetic properties. Magnetism lets her unravel the patterns of lava […]

While towing a Video Plankton Recorder essentially a microscope-plus-video camera slowly across the Atlantic, (“like driving a lawnmower”), scientists found colonies like these fragile “puffs” were more abundant […]

For weeks WHOI graduate student Naomi Levine  and colleagues worked around the clock in the chilly South Atlantic aboard the NOAA research vessel Ronald H. Brown. They took samples of ocean water from […]