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Macquarie Island, a tiny island between Tasmania and Antarctica in the Southern Ocean, is home to large colonies of Royal penguins and other animals. The island is a Tasmanian State […]

A giant tubeworm in its protective white tube, collected during the 2005 Galapagos Rift expedition, is examined by biologist Breea Govenar aboard ship. The expedition was featured on the WHOI […]

An aerial view of the village of Woods Hole, with the Institution dock facilities at the center. WHOI research vessels Knorr, Oceanus, and Atlantis are home, a rare occurrence. (Woods […]

Veteran seagoing WHOI researchers Craig Marquette (left) and Will Ostrom deploy a mooring with tiny temperature probes from R/V Oceanus during a gale off Cape Hatteras. (Photo by Chris Linder, […]

WHOI geochemist Mak Saito joined an international research team aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer in the austral summer of 2005-06 to explore the ecological struggle between two major groups […]

A tall, portable light system, the “deep-sea light post,” illuminates a portion of Hulk, a 25-meter (82-foot) hydrothermal chimney located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off Seattle. (Woods Hole […]

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 […]