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A new study changes our understanding of how lavas are formed at volcanic arcs, and may have implications for the study of earthquakes and the risks posed by […]

During a school field trip to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center, Paul Jakuba gets a boost from his teacher Shaylee Dutra, to get a better look at giant tube worms, […]

WHOI is located in Woods Hole, one of eight villages in the town of Falmouth, Mass. WHOI research associate Steve Pike packed a mobile van to be shipped the next […]

Hon. Peter Thomson (right), President of the 71st United Nations General Assembly, visited WHOI recently to explore the possibility of greater collaboration in advance of The Ocean Conference being […]

You’re looking at a close-up of a remnant of a plastic trash bag collected from the Atlantic Ocean—magnified 10,000 times by a scanning electron microscope. Tracy Mincer, a biogeochemist at […]

In 2016 in the Irminger Sea near Greenland, WHOI Deck Operations Leader John Kemp (left of floats at the deck edge), other members of the WHOI Mooring Group, […]

From the Coleman and Susan Burke Operations Room in LOSOS, Diana Wickman and WHOI’s other ocean glider pilots can monitor vehicles “flying” underwater thousands of miles away. When a […]

Lily Foley (foreground) and her teacher and classmates from the Woods Hole Daycare Cooperative sized up the Deep Sea Exhibit, which features giant tubeworms and other unusual creatures found at […]

Northeast U.S. coastal waters are known for their productive fisheries, and alewife are a big food source for commercial species. WHOI biologist Joel Llopiz investigates the factors that affect the  Read More

A team of WHOI researchers on the R/V Neil Armstrong encountered these unusual-looking specimens last summer, about 100 miles off the southern coast of New England. They collected the […]

WHOI postdoctoral investigator Erika Johnson prepares to launch an aerial drone to survey the Coonamessett River in Falmouth, Mass. With its thermal camera, the drone can identify potential groundwater springs—which […]

Dave Lovalvo, president of Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, deploys a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to examine the geothermically active bottom of Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming. WHOI scientist Rob Sohn, who […]

In WHOI’s Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems, underwater robotics exhibitors talk to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems Frank Kelley (center, USMC Brigadier General, Ret.) […]

Tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park can see steaming fissures, bubbling mudpots, and explosive geysers from roadside stops. But beneath the surface of Yellowstone Lake, hidden from view, is a fount […]

In the low light of Antarctic spring, a researcher on the ice watches for a plane. A research team, including MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Laura Stevens, traveled to the […]

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya (left) and first mate Drew Friel launch a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from the R/V Discovery into a patch of fluorescein dye in Buzzards […]

WHOI seismologist Ralph Stephen and collaborators at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Washington University in St. Louis, and Colorado State University are leading an effort to better understand the disintegration […]

WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly, Texas A&M University at Galveston graduate student Tyler Winkler, and Winkler’s advisor, geologist Pete van Hengstum (left to right) pause for a photo […]