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This young octopus was photographed in a tank aboard the NOAA research vessel Henry B. Bigelow during WHOI’s first ocean twilight zone expedition earlier this month. “Boo,” as […]

A high-tech version of the humble sampling net, the MOCNESS (Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System) sits aboard the research vessel Henry B. Bigelow earlier this month, […]

Through the narrow Strait of Gibraltor, water from the Atlantic Ocean enters the Mediterranean Sea. The Atlantic water is less salty and less dense than saltier Mediterranean water, so the […]

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded on January 6, 1930, following the recommendations of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. The chair of the committee, Frank […]

An amphipod known as a Phronima is often cited as the inspiration for the alien queen in the 1986 blockbuster movie “Aliens.” It inhabits the sac-like body of a barrel-shaped […]

Scientists deploy a RAFOS float during a research cruise in the Denmark Strait to track the sources of sinking waters of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation—a key component of the Read More

The first hearing tests on a wild population of healthy marine mammals revealed that beluga whales in Bristol Bay, AK, have sensitive hearing abilities and far less extensive hearing […]

Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) typically use tethers for remote control, but as they explore deeper parts of the ocean, traditional tethers can weigh them down. The Nereid HT ROV, […]

In 1975, the newly constructed hull of research vessel Oceanus first entered the water at Peterson Builders shipyard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. During its 36-year career, Oceanus crisscrossed the Atlantic […]

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 […]