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Ellen Roosen, Susan Humphris, and Jim Broda (left to right in this panorama) go over plans, now completed, for expanding the sediment core library at WHOI’s McLean Laboratory. The […]

The Fenno family in front oftheir summer home, circa 1930. Purchased by WHOI in 1968 as part of theQuissett Campus, Fenno House today houses offices of the Director, Communications and Development […]

Pierre-J.Gauthier collects gas from the rim of Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua during a March 2006 expedition. Gauthier, a French scientist, and WHOI geochemist Ken Sims sample gas from volcanoes worldwide […]

WHOI scientist Claudia Cenedese (in dark shirt) simulates fluid flow and eddies around seamounts using a rotating table and colored dyes. Rachel Bueno de Mesquita (in pink) is a […]

WHOI geologist Jian Lin studies a sample of seafloor collected near the site of the December 2004 earthquake off the island of Sumatra that resulted in a devastating Read More

The new AUV Sentry is lowered into the water for shallow tests off the WHOI dock in late 2005. The vehicle was successfully tested in deep water in April. (Photo […]

Sunset off the coast of Colombia, photographed during a sediment coring cruise for climate studies. (Photo by James Broda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

R/V Knorr seen from the shore of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos islands. The ship will return to Woods Hole in late June after a lengthy voyage in the […]

In June 2004 students and staff with the MIT/WHOI Joint Program hiked at Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii for insight into the island’s origin. (Photo by John Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic […]

Navigational lighting from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy makes an interesting pattern in the Arctic ice. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

WHOI geologist Debbie Smith explores volcanic terrain in Iceland. The island provides a land-based laboratory for oceanographers to study lava formation and flow. (Photo courtesy of Debbie Smith, Woods Hole […]

A diver services instruments collecting data in the surf zone. Currents, waves and sands constantly change the shoreline. (Photo by Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Giant clams up to one foot long thrive in the crevices around seafloor pillow lava. This vent site on the Galápagos Rift, discovered in 2002, is called “Calyfield” after the […]

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the equator is offset by huge faults called fracture zones, through which a strong deep current flows. This physical barrier may block the transport of vent […]

In a few places on Earth, blocks of oceanic crust called ophiolites have been thrust onto the continents, giving scientists a firsthand look at rock formations that were once beneath […]

Rising 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) above the Samoan island of Ta’u, Mount Lata is an active volcano. One of its sides collapsed in landslides that left a steep escarpment primed […]

Dennis McGillicuddy launches a satellite-tracked drifter into the Bay of Fundy to examine how ocean currents circulate water and the harmful algae Alexandrium into and out of the bay. […]

A thin section of pyroxene from the Indian Ocean with colors produced by light passing up through a polarizer and the rock’s crystal lattice. Earth’s upper mantle is composed mainly […]