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Unexploded ordnance (UXO) from the 1940s and 50s can sometimes resurface in the surf or wash up on beaches at former U.S. military coastal training ranges as the coast erodes. […]

When the human-occupied submersible Alvin surfaces from a deep-sea mission, specially trained crew members called “swimmers” ride a small boat from the research vessel Atlantis to meet […]

WHOI research engineer Peter Koski prepares an ice tethered profiler for Arctic deployment, working in the science lab of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy. Koski was one of 30 scientists […]

Adam Smith, a visiting investigator in WHOI biologist Aran Mooney’s lab, sets up several microphones that will be “dropped” down the side of a cliff and into the burrows […]

The cool waters of the Equatorial Undercurrent flow east across the Central Pacific Ocean. After traveling thousands of miles, the current runs into into the Galápagos Islands about 500 miles […]

Undergraduate students in the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program prepare for a day at sea aboard the research vessel Gulf Challenger in 2018. Each summer SSFs come to […]

This two-dimensional gas chromatogram created by WHOI technician Bob Nelson from samples collected by chemist Chris Reddy tells a very special story. In July 2018, Reddy traveled to Pearl […]

The WHOI Center for Marine Robotics organized their Annual Entreprenureal Showcase and Leadership Forum this year with the theme “Disruptive and Disrupting.” On the first day, attendees gathered […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Genevieve Brett (second from left) receives the 2018 George “Gera” Pavlovich Panteleyev Award, awarded to the graduating student, elected by students and faculty, who […]

In early 2018, WHOI obtained authorization to release new details about its role in the successful 2015 search for the three-century old Spanish galleon San José, which sank during […]

The manipulator arm of the human-occupied submersible Alvin holds an isobaric gas-tight (IGT) sampler to collect vent fluids flowing from a seafloor hydrothermal vent site in the […]

Students from the Perkins School for the Blind work with WHOI Ocean Science Discovery Center staff person Megan Harrigan this past spring. WHOI physical oceanographer Amy Bower was on […]

An autonomous underwater vehicle tracks a harmless, bright-green fluorescent dye during a demonstration to simulate a rapid response to a maritime oil spill. Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, […]

WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott (left) and Prince Albert II of Monaco hold a 3D-printed replica of a wooden model of the hull of WHOI’s former research […]

This year’s Anything-But-A-Boat Race brought out a crowd of spectators in Woods Hole, Mass. on Sept. 16, 2018. Rules for the periodic WHOI community event stipulate that “unboats” must not […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ben Lambert field tests a new type of 3-D printed instrument known as an In Situ Chemotaxis Assay (ISCA), which he developed with other […]

WHOI Postdoctoral Fellow Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert was chosen by L’Oréal USA to receive one of five 2018 For Women in Science Fellowships, each of which provides $60,000 to a female postdoctoral […]