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A remotely controlled hexacopter hovers above a North Atlantic right whale in Cape Cod Bay. Researchers at WHOI and NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center are collaborating to collect […]

The research vessel Atlantis is currently in Easter Island, as it was in this photo in 1998, and is preparing to begin an expedition to Pito Deep with the […]

This sleek squid sports a futuristic tail ornament. WHOI biologist Aran Mooney and collaborators at Stanford University and the University of Michigan developed a way to […]

WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly extracts a tube of sediment from a Cape Cod marsh as participants in the Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship look on. […]

After WHOI assisted the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the U.S. Coast Guard in locating the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the sunken cargo ship El Faro, NTSB […]

Mooring technician Meghan Donohue says that when she chose a job that few women do, she knew there would be challenges. But she wanted […]

WHOI’s newest research vessel and first building serve as a fitting image on this 87th anniversary of the Instituion’s founding. R/V Neil Armstrong arrived in Woods […]

When NASA’s Aviation Safety Officers and engineers set out to re-evaluate the agency’s vehicles and systems, they chose the WHOI Alvin operations group as a benchmark—the first non-aviation […]

Photographed in a drop of water, this shrimp-like crustacean is tiny—about the size of a fingernail. It comes from Barrow Canyon, a seafloor feature in the Arctic Ocean that’s […]

If you think it’s difficult to hold to your resolution to get more exercise in the New Year, imagine what it’s like to do so in Antarctica. MIT-WHOI Joint […]

WHOI researchers Kris Newhall (left) and Rick Krishfield (right), and Brian Mackenzie, crew member of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent, set up an ice-tethered profiler […]

Atlantis Bank formed on the seafloor as the Southwest Indian mid-ocean ridge spread apart along a tectonic fault (top). The lower-crust gabbro rock that formed Atlantis Bank was slowly […]

Humpback whales are legendary for their long, haunting songs, which can travel thousands of miles through the ocean. Songs and other sounds contain pressure waves that push and pull […]

R/V Neil Armstrong‘s deck was awash in yellow on a recent cruise to the tempestuous Irminger Sea off Greenland. Bosun Kyle Covert (top left), WHOI Research […]

During a pair of linked research cruises on R/V Atlantis that spanned Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year, the crew and science team left a traditional enticement of cookies and […]

WHOI biologist Michael Moore is leading a collaborative project to study the health of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales using drones. SR3 researcher Holly Fearnbach (left) […]

The expansive poster hall is a staple of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held annually in December. The meeting, which draws approximately 25,000 attendees each year, is […]