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R/V Neil Armstrong made a rare appearance in New York City this spring as part of Fleet Week 2017. The ship paraded up the Hudson River and docked […]

Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito (right) cuts the ribbon at the grand opening ceremony of WHOI’s DunkWorks facility earlier this summer. Helping her was Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) Deputy […]

It’s not a common occurence for all three of WHOI’s research vessels to be docked at the WHOI pier. But on this day, R/V Neil Armstrong (background), R/V Atlantis (foreground right) and […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mara Freilich demonstrates how salinity affects ocean stratification and mixing at a recent symposium at WHOI. The event, “OCEANOS: WHOI en Español e Português,” […]

The annual poster sessons by WHOI Summer Student Fellows are just one sign that summer is over. Each August, undergraduates in the SSF program produce a poster explaining […]

Inclement weather rarely prevents the research vessel Atlantis from taking scientists to sea—and a rainy day did not deter members of the public from showing up to the Woods […]

WHOI geochemist Chris German joined a panel recently with (left to right) Robert Ballard from the University of Rhode Island, Mary Voytek from NASA, Frieder Klein from WHOI, and […]

Deck crew and scientists deploy a multicore from the stern of the research vessel Neil Armstrong recently. The multicore is designed to collect up to eight core samples of the seafloor, […]

This oceanographic tool— a Van Veen grab sampler—collects seafloor sediments. It’s probably not the first thing you might expect to find on a research cruise led by a physical […]

About 160 scientists and researchers from around the world participated in the 6th International Symposium on Chemosynthesis-Based Ecosystems (CBE6) at WHOI recently. The event marked the 40th anniversary of […]

Bostwick H. “Buck” Ketchum (left) poses on a bulldozer in 1962 at the groundbreaking for WHOI’s Laboratory for Marine Sciences, later named for Alfred Redfield. At the time, Read More

Scientific studies often start with the basics—in this case, taking stock of what’s out there in the environment. This spring and summer, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Kirstin Meyer and guest […]

Pioneering marine biologist Henry Bryant Bigelow served as the founding director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1939. Almost three decades earlier, when Bigelow was an undergraduate […]

The Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science (GOES) Institute brings a group of girls to WHOI during the summer before they begin sixth grade, as well as a teacher […]

Geophysicist, Maurice Ewing, stands on the deck of WHOI’s first research vessel, Atlantis, holding a mechanism to time the release of seismic equipment from the seafloor so that it […]