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Conditions can get a little rough off the coast of North Carolina in January, but that didn’t stop WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz and his team. Using an instrument called […]

Biologist Heidi Sosik briefed WHOI volunteers last spring on the new NSF-funded Long-term Ecological Research site that she helped establish off the Northeast U.S. coast. Tonight, Sosik […]

Look closely at this rib from a sperm whale found dead on a Nantucket Beach in 2002, and you can see a lesion—pits on the joint surface and a large […]

WHOI researcher and engineer Alex Bocconcelli searched for endangered blue whales in southern Chile’s Corcovado Bay this past winter. To track whales’ diving behavior, his team attached temporary suction-cup tags […]

WHOI scientist Benjamin Van Mooy (right) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jamie Collins flank the proof-of-concept version of an instrument called PHORCYS. Van Mooy co-developed the […]

Whale sharks and other large fish such as rays, tuna, and swordfish roam our oceans, but we know remarkably little about them. That impedes our ability to understand their roles […]

To probe the seafloor, scientists send sound waves down through the ocean and seafloor and record reflected echoes with ocean bottom seismographs and hydrophones trailing behind a ship. […]

The new Northeast Shelf Long-term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) site south of Cape Cod connects two other existing study sites: the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory and the Ocean Observatories […]

Raymond Graham (right, in lifeboat) gets into position to join Ben Pietro (far right) on the surface buoy of a scientific mooring to prepare it for recovery after its 14-month […]

Tuktoyaktuk means “Land of the Caribou” in the Inuvialuit language, which explains the sculpture in the foreground, but the landscape of the Northwest Territories, Canada, is also of interest for […]

WHOI engineer Christopher Griner (facing camera) and Chris Mannka, a crewmember of the research vessel Neil Armstrong, wound more than 12 kilometers (over 7 miles) of high-strength synthetic rope […]

John Kemp, operations leader of the WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group, leaps over melt pond in the Arctic carrying equipment to drill a hole into an ice floe […]

Raymond Graham and Ben Pietro of WHOI’s Upper Ocean Processes Group work to secure instruments atop a mooring buoy in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. The mooring is one […]

WHOI researcher Sebastien Bigorre talks with WHOI physical oceanographer Amala Mahadevan about measurements from an underway-CTD, an instrument that measures conductivity (salinity), temperature, and depth while a ship is […]

WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart is currently leading an international team on board the NATO research vessel Alliance to get a close-up look at a poorly understood, but critical, […]

The moon rises over calm seas the night before the deployment of the sixteenth Stratus surface mooring in May of 2017. The mooring has been maintained since 2000 by  Read More