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This eerie twilight photo of the research vessel Neil Armstrong was taken earlier this month in waters off of Greenland by a new camera system called IceCam. It consists […]

The term necropsy is used to describe an autopsy performed on a deceased, non-human animal. WHOI’s necropsy facility allows scientists to study the anatomy, physiology, diet, and health of […]

While the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong prepared a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) mooring line for deployment southeast of Greenland recently, they were visited by a large pod of pilot whales. […]

This series of photos taken by the WHOI deep-tow camera ANGUS in 1977 provided the first view of the unexpectedly diverse, abundant communities of life on a seafloor once thought […]

Alfred Redfield, shown in his lab in 1955, joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931. He went on to serve as Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. […]

In 1963, WHOI biologist Dick Backus, shown here watching the return from a precision graphic recorder, used a solar eclipse to solve a puzzling oceanographic mystery. For decades, scientists had […]

A Slocum glider is lowered into the western Mediterranean Sea from the Mallorcan research catamaran SOCIB, as part of a recent expedition to study how currents there […]

Surface moorings in the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative have buoys that are among the largest and most complex platforms of their type deployed in the ocean. That includes buoys […]

Rear Admiral (ret.) Mike Manazir (far right) and staff visited WHOI last month to tour labs and talk with WHOI scientists about their undersea research and technology development. The tour […]

Two graduate students monitor sampling operations in the South China Sea during a February 2017 expedition. WHOI physical oceanographer Louis St. Laurent and colleagues from National Taiwan University and […]

With sun setting in the North Atlantic, WHOI technicians pay out a mooring from the fantail of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The mooring is part of the Pioneer […]

WHOI engineer Daniel Gomez-Ibanez prepares WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Clio, for its recent sea trials from research vessel Neil Armstrong. The white cylinder Gomez-Ibanez is working on […]

Researchers aboard R/V Neil Armstrong launch a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) sensor during an April expedition off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., where shallow-water currents collide with […]

WHOI senior research assistant Ellen Roosen shows a group of visitors sediment cores from the Seafloor Samples Laboratory. The cores contain physical and chemical clues to the ocean’s past, […]

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Sophie Ruehr (Yale University, left) and Partnership in Education Program student Adrynne Jones (Eastern Michigan University, right) prepare to extract a sample of sediment from […]

WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility will be a focal point of activities and displays during the Woods Hole Science Stroll this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The […]

The rear deck of R/V Neil Armstrong was full of gear—including these 7,700-pound mooring anchors—as the ship left on a recent three-week cruise to recover and deploy instruments at […]