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WHOI’s Mooring Operations and Engineering Group leader, John Kemp (second from right), and Senior Engineering Assistant Jim Ryder (left, red hardhat) recover a reel stand from off the starboard […]

Elisabeth Boles (left), an undergraduate at MIT, and Kama Thieler, Undergraduate Programs Coordinator at WHOI, measure nitrate levels in a seawater sample. The hands-on lesson was part of an Elements of Modern […]

In 2012, 98 percent of the Greenland Ice Sheet‘s surface area melted for several days, sending torrents of meltwater down glaciers near the coast. Rising meltwaters and icebergs also […]

Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay (left) and Katelyn Rainville, two students in the Semester at WHOI (SAW) program, learn about using a gravity corer, a basic piece of oceanographic equipment used to sample sediment layers at […]

Millions of visitors to Yellowstone National Park marvel at its colorful pools, bubbling springs, and steaming geysers and fumaroles. What they may not appreciate is that these features are just […]

WHOI biologist Scott Lindell (far right) and research assistant David Bailey (center) traveled to Morocco recently, where they worked with members of the National Agency for the Development […]

Clearing ice from the decks of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy was a regular task for ship’s crew during a 2011 cruise into the Arctic. WHOI biologist Read More

This patch of clams, bacteria, and tubeworms was photographed on the ocean bottom in the Gulf of California, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart, further separating the […]

Domitilo Nájera Navarrete stands ready to deploy a RAFOS float from the research vessel Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico. The glass-tubed floats sink to a specific depth and […]

Former WHOI engineer and founder of Teledyne Webb Research Doug Webb (right) chats with Center for Marine Robotics Director Jim Bellingham in front of a wall of Webb’s […]

WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder (middle) presented a rare deep-sea fish—called chimaera—to Japan’s Crown Prince Akihito during a visit to WHOI back in 1953 as WHOI Director Admiral Smith […]

During a 2012 expedition to make detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as SeaBED, researchers on board the Australian icebreaker […]

Representatives from WHOI and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) met recently in Woods Hole to renew a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions in support of the Read More

This photo of a Dumbo octopus, more than a mile down on the seafloor, graces the month of March in the 2018 WHOI Wall Calendar, now available for purchase at […]

WHOI researcher and engineer Alex Bocconcelli searched for endangered blue whales off southern Chile earlier this year. Bocconcelli led a team that used temporary suction-cup tags equipped with sensors to track […]