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This shrimp was collected this summer on a WHOI-led cruise to the Northwestern Atlantic aboard the NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow. The expedition was WHOI’s first to […]

It’s a simple fact of life in the ocean that there are more small marine animals than large ones, but that it’s easier to tag a large animal than […]

A coastal surface mooring lies beneath the A-frame on the research vessel Neil Armstrong, while two instrumented anchor frames sit next to the gangway waiting to be loaded […]

Kirstin Meyer, a postdoctoral scholar at WHOI, holds an underwater note pad near a juvenile Porites lobata coral that she just sampled. You can see the little white […]

From left, WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue, University of Oregon professor Dave Sutherland, and WHOI scientist Magdalena Andres deploy an instrument known as PIES—a pressure-sensor equipped inverted echo sounder—in […]

WHOI engineer Justin Fujii had a bit of fun in 2016, dressing up the deep-sea robot Sentry with electrical tape to celebrate a Thanksgiving conducting research at sea. Sentry […]

It took a village of researchers to process a tube of sediments cored from Great Barnstable Salt Marsh on Cape Cod. Working in WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak‘s lab are, […]

In July 2018, WHOI chemist Chris Reddy traveled to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to collect oil samples from surface sheens near the USS Arizona, which has been leaking oil since […]

Atlantic sea scallops are a $500 million annual industry, but WHOI scientists believe they may be in danger. A new model developed by WHOI researcher Jennie Rheuban suggests that as human-induced […]

The free-swimming robotic vehicle Sentry has had many “faces” over the years, often thanks to WHOI engineer and electrical tape artist Justin Fujii. In honor of Sentry’s 500th […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Joleen Heiderich and WHOI engineer Patrick Deane deploy a Spray glider from a small boat off the coast of Miami. The robotic vehicle is the […]

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Rachel Gold (Brown University) examines a sediment core from Lake Carmi, Vermont. The sediments provide evidence of an inland sea—formerly known as the Champlain Sea—that […]

During World War II, WHOI scientists and engineers contributed to the war effort with some 40 projects that advanced understanding of underwater sound, helped predict the movement of […]

Family and friends gather with Arthur E. Maxwell (third from left) at festivities at WHOI in September 2018 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the  Read More

One of this year’s contestants falls off her “unboat” in WHOI’s Anything-But-A-Boat Race – community event in Woods Hole, Mass., that attracted hundreds of spectators on Sept. 16. Race […]