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WHOI’s two campuses are a blend of new, sophisticated science laboratories and quaint, old houses and estates that still retain signs of their previous owners. Outside the Carriage […]

New graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program boarded the research vessel Neil Armstrong for a 30-hour cruise to get their feet wet in their oceanographic careers. […]

A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Read More

Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agents Joshua Reitsma and Abigail Archer help distribute bags of shell that contain oyster seed (spat) to towns for municipal shellfish propagation programs. The Read More

A radar view from the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force “Hurricane Hunter” (small white airplane icon) shows the eye of Hurricane Irma as the plane flies into the storm […]

Elizabeth (“Betty”) Bunce waits for a sediment core to come up from the seafloor aboard the research vessel Chain circa 1958. Bunce (1915-2003) was a pioneering woman oceanographer. A geophysicist […]

At sea, traditions that speak of home and loved ones take on greater meaning. In 1952, Capt. John Pike carved a Thanksgiving turkey in the wardroom aboard the research vessel […]

Members of the Coastal Systems Group led by Jeff Donnelly (far right) took to the high seas of Salt Pond in Falmouth, Mass., this summer to collect sediment cores […]

WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (center), MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Stephan Gallagher (right), and MIT undergraduate Elisabeth Boles examine a sample of seawater full of tiny plants and animals […]

WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn prepares instruments during a recent cruise to the Irminger Sea south of Greenland. The instruments have sensors to take a wide range of measurements in […]

WHOI senior scientist Amala Mahadevan delivers the keynote address at the 4th annual Society of Women in Marine Science symposium earlier this month. The theme of this year’s […]

WHOI faculty and students pose for a photo during an “Elements of Modern Oceanography” class field trip on the coastal research vessel Tioga. The course, led by WHOI physical oceanographer […]

WHOI Biologist Mark Baumgartner recovers a robotic glider after it helped find several endangered North Atlantic right whales. The glider was equipped with a digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument […]

WHOI scientists Scott Wankel and Adam Soule (on screen, right to left) recently participated in a public event at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York—from a […]

A group of profiler mooring buoys stands ready for loading onto the research vessel Neil Armstrong in advance of a cruise to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Read More

During the 2010 Deepwater Horizon crisis, officials made the unprecedented and controversial decision to inject more than 700,000 gallons of chemical dispersant over 67 days immediately above the severed wellhead […]

Kent Sheasley (right), captain of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, gives a tour of the ship’s engine room to visiting journalists in the Knight Science Journalism Program at […]