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Marvel Stalcup (with glasses) and Gus Day launch an early instrument to determine current speeds and directions from the research vessel Crawford circa 1965. Data were recorded on photographic film. Modern oceanographers use […]

These colorful straps and ropes—or lines, as they are known on a ship—were photographed hanging outside the rigging van of John Kemp aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Kemp, […]

WHOI researcher Phil Alatalo (far right) explains the operations of a standard oceanographic tool—the Niskin bottle—to undergraduate students in the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program aboard the research […]

The dense fog that blanketed Woods Hole for two days in late June finally cleared to blue summer skies, allowing MIT-WHOI Joint Program students to embark—two days late—on the […]

The human-occupied submersible Alvin surfaces from a mission to the seafloor in a photo taken circa 1967—three years after the sub was first built. Two crewmen known as “swimmers” […]

2018 Summer Student Fellows Maya Chung (Harvard University) and David Brinkley (Amherst College) marvel at a jar of plankton collected from Buzzards Bay in mid-July. The samples were collected […]

Every six months, the imposing, sensor-laden moorings that make up the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array need to be “turned”—hauled out of the water and substituted with clean, repaired, […]

Jellyfish are known for their painful stings—but they can also serve as a source of artistic inspiration. Artist Christina Machinski painted this image of a clinging jellyfish, which […]

Sea level in coastal areas can be affected by a number of factors: tides, winds, waves, and even barometric pressure. New research led by WHOI physical oceanographer Chris […]

In 2013, a WHOI-led research team set sail for the Eastern Beaufort Sea. Their mission: to search for evidence of a huge, ancient, freshwater flood caused by the melting of […]

More than 400 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students just beginning their oceanographic careers have found their bearings aboard the Jake Peirson Summer Cruise, which began in 1990 as a […]

The copepod pictured on this laptop screen is only a few millimeters long, but it appears much larger through the “eyes” of a new holographic camera system. WHOI biologist […]

Mara Freilich, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, is exploring where plankton thrives in the ocean. Her research area is the Mediterranean Sea, where less-salty, less-dense […]

In the late 1940s, WHOI scientists helped document the impacts of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 during Operation Crossroads. To […]

Emerson Hasbrouck, an engineering assistant with WHOI’s Upper-Ocean Processes Group, prepares a Stratus buoy for deployment in Valparaíso, Chile. The buoy holds instruments that measure air and sea […]