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WHOI engineer Christopher Griner (facing camera) and Chris Mannka, a crewmember of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, wound more than 12 kilometers (over 7 miles) of high-strength synthetic rope […]

John Kemp, operations leader of the WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group, leaps over melt pond in the Arctic carrying equipment to drill a hole into an ice floe […]

Raymond Graham and Ben Pietro of WHOI’s Upper Ocean Processes Group work to secure instruments atop a mooring buoy in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. The mooring is one […]

WHOI researcher Sebastien Bigorre talks with WHOI physical oceanographer Amala Mahadevan about measurements from an underway-CTD, an instrument that measures conductivity (salinity), temperature, and depth while a ship is […]

WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart is currently leading an international team on board the NATO research vessel Alliance to get a close-up look at a poorly understood, but critical, […]

The moon rises over calm seas the night before the deployment of the sixteenth Stratus surface mooring in May of 2017. The mooring has been maintained since 2000 by  Read More

In 1971, marine biologist Ruth Turner became the first woman to dive in WHOI’s human-occupied submersible Alvin. Turner, pictured here with Alvin Chief Pilot Ralph Hollis aboard the research […]

This vehicle’s unassuming appearance belies the fact that it was instrumental is some of the most important undersea discoveries: finding hydrothermal vents and chemosynthetic deep-sea life in 1977 […]

The North Atlantic can be an inhospitable place, especially in late winter, but that is exactly when WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart needs to be there. Pickart and his […]

An Adelie penguin hunches down over its nest as icy winds whip across Cape Royds on Ross Island during a 2007 Polar Discovery expedition. Adelie penguins are sentinel species […]

WHOI engineer Korey Verhein works on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Medea prior to departure on the research vessel Atlantis recently. Medea is part of the ROV Jason […]

At times during the Deepwater Horizon crisis, WHOI researchers had to take safety precautions. From left, WHOI’s Sean Sylva, Chris Reddy, and Rich Camilli, and U.S. Coast Guard Lt. […]

The microbes on a whale’s skin could provide clues to its health. In a recent study, WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill collected skin samples from humpback whales in the North […]

WHOI engineers Rick Krishfield (right) and Kris Newhall take part of an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) for a sled ride in Resolute Bay, Canada, before deploying it on an […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julia Middleton took this photo of her sister during a trip to the Grand Canyon, but her eyes were on the canyon walls. Formations […]

The history of women at sea on WHOI ships began quietly on April 8, 1952, when the husband-and-wife team of Harvard biologists Barbara Lawrence and William Schevill, who was a […]