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The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy steams through “pancake” sea ice in the Arctic Ocean in October 2013. WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart led the cruise to complete […]

WHOI assistant scientist Erin Fischell showed visiting member of a U.S. Army youth leadership group some of the autonomous underwater vehicles she uses in her research. Fischell, who graduated […]

Bosun Pete Liarikos (left) and UNOLS technician Drew Cole recover an ocean glider from the water onto research vessel Neil Armstrong on a recent trip to the Ocean […]

The family of A.D. Colburn waved good-bye from the end of the WHOI dock as R/V Atlantis departed on AD’s final trip as master of the ship recently. […]

An ice-tethered profiler (ITP) takes one last look at the sky before passing through four meters of ice in the Beaufort Sea to begin a study of ocean physics, […]

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya spoke about her work with autonomous underwater REMUS vehicles at the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) Symposium at WHOI last fall. […]

What do you do when you have to do fieldwork on Halloween? You put your costume on early. Members of WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group did just that yesterday during […]

This summer, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer hung plastic panels off the WHOI pier and a dock at Eel Pond in Woods Hole, to learn what organisms […]

WHOI’s Bigelow Lab on Water St. in Woods Hole, Mass., was WHOI’s first building and is named for the Institution’s first director, Henry Bryant Bigelow. The original plans […]

Members of the lab run by WHOI chemist Matt Charette installed equipment near the city of Sendai during a trip to Northeast Japan to collect groundwater samples. Charette and WHOI colleague Ken Buesseler Read More

Jefferson Grau inspected a viewport prior to installation on the human-occupied submersilble Alvin during a major upgrade completed in 2014. He was looking for bubbles or inclusions […]

The ocean gained a powerful voice recently when Peter Thomson was appointed by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to be the first special envoy for the oceans. In his Read More

Crew members aboard WHOI’s original research vessel Atlantis, which supported oceanographic research from 1931 to 1964, work together to hoist the ship’s anchor. In those days, the task was time […]

Bosun Patrick Hennessy watched a dock crew unmoor R/V Atlantis as the ship prepared to leave Woods Hole recently. As bosun, Hennessy is responsible for deck and over-the-side […]

WHOI Associate Scientist Elizabeth Kujawinski (right) and research specialist Melissa Kido Soule acquaint themselves with a new mass spectrometer in Kujawinski’s lab. The two have used similar technology in […]