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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 […]

WHOI research associate Leah Houghton works in the main science lab of the research vessel Neil Armstrong on a cruise off the southern tip of Greenland this summer. Houghton […]

WHOI guest investigator Francesco Caruso, biologist Aran Mooney, and research specialist Alex Bocconcelli (left to right) work with a longfin squid in a tank at WHOI’s Environmental […]

Research vessel Neil Armstrong bosun Pete Liarikos keeps a watchful eye on small boat operations during recovery of a surface buoy at the Global Irminger Sea Array of […]

Woods Hole Sea Grant director and WHOI marine chemist Matt Charette pulls a CTD onto the fantail of research vessel Tioga during a summer field trip […]

The 2017 WHOI Ocean Science Journalism Fellows listen as physical oceanographer Magdalena Andres describes one of the many scientific instruments she uses in her research: a pressure sensor […]

WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler (foreground left) observes as research associate Steve Pike (center left) and a crewmember of the  U.K. research vessel RSS Discovery prepare to deploy a […]

WHOI robotics and acoustics researcher Erin Fischell (right) prepares to launch an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) in Ashumet Pond, Falmouth, while MIT-WHOI Joint Program student EeShan Bhatt (center) […]

WHOI Mooring Operations and Engineering Group member Meghan Donohue keeps an eye on the mooring line as she leads recovery of a Global Surface Mooring during a recent […]