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Diatoms—a type of phytoplankton—are intricate and beautiful under the microscope. In this composite image, a micrograph of a diatom is flanked by a pair of diatom-inspired earrings created by survivors […]

Most of the surface of Earth is covered by ocean, so it follows that most of the rain falling on the planet falls on the ocean. That rain, in turn, […]

During a recent cruise on R/V Neil Armstrong for the Overturning of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP), WHOI scientist Bob Pickart and his team sent a small […]

WHOI research assistant Luis Valentin-Alvarado examines a petri dish for colonies of E. coli. The bacteria have been made to produce large quantities of peptide standards—short amino acid chains—from the […]

This antique medicine chest was used by the crew of the original Atlantis, WHOI’s first research vessel and the first ship built for oceanographic research. The chest retired with […]

Engineer Brian Hogue works on a McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) in WHOI’s Field Instrumentation and eXperiment Implementation Team (FIXIT) lab. Hogue is one half of a two-man team […]

A buoy built at WHOI is deployed from the R/V Roger Revelle in the Pacific Ocean in 2016. The buoy, outfitted with dozens of sensors above and below the […]

From the air, this rift in the Ross Ice Shelf might appear to be a small crack, but it is actually 300 feet wide and tens of miles long. […]

Wearing red in recognition of International Women’s Day yesterday, WHOI engineers and assistants check out a newly-developed in-line instrument frame. Three in-line frames will be added to the surface […]

WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue (left) gets ready to guide an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) into the water off the deck of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. […]

A pilot inside the submersible Alvin uses one of the vehicle’s manipulator arms to pick up some unusual geological samples: popping rocks. WHOI scientists collected them in 2016, […]

The 96-well micro-titre plate is a standard piece of laboratory equipment used to hold small amounts of liquid samples for testing. This particular plate was put to a decidedly non-standard […]

WHOI senior engineering assistant Ben Pietro oversees a deployment of yellow “hardhats” on the R/V Revelle during a 2016 expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, where some of the highest […]

A lone buoy sits atop Arctic sea ice in the Canadian Basin—a yellow dot in a vast field of white. Suspended in the water below the buoy, a beacon sends […]