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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 […]

WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe (standing, far left) guides guest student Will Scott in casting a net into the test well on the WHOI pier, as physicist Andone Lavery […]

Climate change is leading to diminishing sea ice near the Arctic coast, leaving more open water for winds to create more waves, which reach down and stir up sediments […]

A spray glider launched in March 2017 from a patrol ship off the Seychelles Islands in the western Indian Ocean spent four months zig-zagging through the upper 1,000 meters (3,300 […]

These delicate creatures are no bigger than a quarter, but their tentacles can sometimes deliver painful stings. Clinging jellyfish are found along the northeastern U.S. coast. Beachgoers need […]

In 1983, WHOI engineers spent long summer weeks in East Boston working to upgrade and convert the research vessel Atlantis II into the support ship for the human-occupied […]

Jerome Wiesner, then-president of MIT, presided at the 1980 commencement ceremony, held near the WHOI pier in Woods Hole, for graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied […]

WHOI engineer and SharkCam co-developer Amy Kukulya (blue jacket) has not only helped bring sharks into living rooms since 2012 on The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, but she remains […]