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A complex circulation system in the Arctic Ocean is designated by red and blue arrows (warm and cold water). WHOI scientists and engineers are exploring how global climate change is […]

Twin plankton nets, called ‘bongo nets’, hang over the side of a ship. The nets are towed through the water to capture copepods, which are counted to track their abundance […]

Seaman Clindor Cacho works on the R/V Oceanus guiding floats as they are prepared for deployment into the Irminger Sea east of Greenland. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic […]

David Sutherland, an MIT/WHOI Joint Program student in the Physical Oceanography department, joined an ascending glider during a test in the Bahamas in January 2003. (Photo by Dave Fratantoni, Woods […]

Offering a rare look at its form below the water line, Research Vessel Atlantis perches on blocks for routine maintenance in a shipyard in the Bahamas. (Photo by Robert Elder, […]

WHOI Assistant Scientist Katrina Edwards collects water samples from Salt Pond in Falmouth, Massachusetts, in search of bacteria that make their own compasses,known as magnetotactic bacteria. (Photo by Tom Kleindist, […]

Working from the National Science Foundation icebreaker/research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer researchers thread their way through pack ice during Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (GLOBEC) operations off Antarctica in winter 2001. […]

The 142-foot ketch Atlantis in rolling seas in June 1950 during a six-ship survey of the Gulf Stream. Operation Cabot was the largest survey of the Gulf Stream undertaken to […]

These torpedo-shaped instruments, called polar profiling floats, drift nose-up at various depths through the Arctic Ocean while measuring water temperature and salinity. The floats are programmed to rise to the […]

A big red flotation sphere is deployed into Hudson Strait to collect the first detailed measurements of water flowing out of icy Hudson Strait into the North Atlantic. Changes in […]

A large reservoir of relatively fresh water in the Arctic region enters the North Atlantic through several small straits. Changes upstream of the gateways may be affecting the freshwater discharge […]

The mollusk Glaucus atlanticus, about the size of a quarter, was photographed in a WHOI lab after its capture off the coast of Panama in March. The mollusk hangs upside […]

A sled used to inject a nontoxic dye into the interior of the ocean for studies of how ocean layers mix is deployed from Research Vessel Oceanus in early 2001 […]