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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 […]

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 […]