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WHOI geologist Konrad Hughen took this photo during a 2015 expedition to conduct coral reef surveys and obtain coral core samples on several reefs within the Chagos Archipelago, […]

In a sign that the current maintenance period for the research vessel Atlantis is almost completed, yard workers at the Mares Island Naval Ship Yard recently flooded the drydock where […]

Molly Anderson, a master’s student at Boise State University, takes a close look at the inside of a piece of basalt recently recovered from the seafloor by the human-occupied […]

Emperor penguin chicks hatch into the frozen world of Antarctica—one of Earth’s most inhospitable places. A recent study reveals what the juveniles do in the critical early months […]

At sea, it helps to know your equipment inside and out. Here, Dalton Hardisty from Michigan State University, Alysia Cox from Montana Tech, and Drew Syverson from Yale University test […]

Two Galapagos Swallow Tailed Gulls glide in the sky above the R/V Atlantis during a 2010 expedition. The birds, which are the only fully nocturnal gulls and seabirds in […]

Hydrothermal vent crabs thrive under enough pressure to crush a car, but can survive at the surface for months or more. They also regularly move between the cold of […]

In 1986, when the shuttle orbiter Atlantis flew its second mission, WHOI Director John H. Steele was among those invited to witness the nighttime launch, because the shuttle was […]

Tiny. Ubiquitous. Vital. Delicate. Vulnerable. All these words describe pteropods (“wing-foot”). These marine snails are also called “sea butterflies” because of their winglike swimming appendages. Masses of pteropods drift […]

Puffins in Iceland are one of the many interests of WHOI acoustic biologist Aran Mooney. During a recent trip to Husavik on the north shore of the island, members of […]

In her experiments to investigate antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the ocean, former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Megan May grew bacteria collected from beaches in petri dishes. She […]

The current shipyard period for the research vessel Atlantis includes maintenance to the hangar used to house the human-occupied submersible Alvin. So the ship’s crew and yard workers […]

A black smoker chimney billows from a hydrothermal vent site called “Snake Pit” on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It was photographed by scientists Holger Jannasch and Cindy Van Dover […]

Alvin engineer and pilot Danik Forsman holds a seafloor heat blanket used to measure the heat flow from the seafloor. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Ross Parnell-Turner reads its weight. […]

The Galápagos Islands are home to species found nowhere else on Earth, such as this land iguana. This unique ecosystem depends on nutrients brought to the islands by the Read More

Chris Lathan, a former pilot of the human-occupied submersible Alvin, works during ths sub’s upgrade that was completed in 2014, 50 years after the original Alvin was […]

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry returned to the research vessel Atlantis recently after an overnight mission to map the seafloor ahead of a dive by the Read More

This artists’ rendition illustrates the unusual confluence of waters that occurs beneath the surface of the Bay of Bengal. From the west comes warm, salty waters (yellow) formed in […]