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A team of researchers worked well past sunset on the shore of Yellowstone Lake in 2016 to section and catalog a core they had taken from the lake bed earlier […]

Alexandra Labella, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, analyzes a sediment core sample in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly. Labella is one of many students who work at […]

Sunrise comes to Sachs Harbour, a village on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic that in 2014 was a research hub and equipment center for scientists studying sea ice. […]

Research cruises, like life, are full of surprises. The ocean can offer up unexpected storms—or in this case, the freshest sushi you’ll ever taste. Aboard the WHOI-operated research vessel Read More

Kathy Patterson, manager of the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center, gives a demonstration about water density at a recent reception for members of the WHOI Associates Program and supporters. The […]

Sometimes you have to get into the remote environment where marine organisms live to study them: WHOI biologists Larry Madin and Richard Harbison were part of a small group in […]

In the 1950s William C. Schroeder was photographed displaying a deep-sea fish called a chimaera that he had collected. Schroeder—a fisheries biologist who held positions at WHOI and Harvard […]

Meet a curious single-celled organism called Mesodinium rubrum. They are shaped like “8”s with hairlike cilia around them that they use to swim in the ocean. They usually graze on […]

When WHOI’s Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) was established in 1983, WHOI scientists Bob Ballard (right) and Dana Yoerger used a small vehicle called RPV-430, built by Benthos, Inc., as […]

For such small, delicate creatures, they pack mighty painful stings. Known as a clinging jellyfish because they attach to seagrasses and seaweeds, Gonionemus are found along Pacific and Atlantic […]

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya attaches a camera to a specially equipped REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle while being filmed for the New England nightly newsmagazine, Chronicle, on Boston’s ABC […]

This maze of electronics was part of WHOI’s first at-sea computer, an IBM machine installed on R/V Chain in 1962. A special air conditioning unit had to be installed to […]

On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber collided with a tanker during mid-air refueling off the coast of Spain, resulting in the loss of four hydrogen bombs. […]