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The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI each summer to learn more about ocean science through […]

On a recent visit, Admiral John Richardson (right), the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, toured a number of the Institution’s science and engineering facilities and heard from researchers about […]

Last August, WHOI hosted a visit by Dr. Tamara Dickinson, the Principal Assistant Director for Environment and Energy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During her […]

WHOI engineering assistant Chris Judge rewires a junction box on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason. This junction box, or j-box, houses the electrical wiring that connects the ROV’s […]

WHOI physical oceanographer John Toole (right) studies some of the ocean’s smallest features in order to better understand its inner workings. Toole, together with Kurt Polzin and an engineering […]

WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner has deployed buoys carrying his near real-time whale-listening devices off the coasts of Massachusetts, Maine, and New York. The technology includes software developed by […]

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Stefani Johnson of St. John’s University discussed her poster with scientist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink in August 2016. Students in the program work with scientists as […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Melissa Moulton (center) received the 2016 George “Gera” Pavlovich Panteleyev Award from Associate Dean Margaret Tivey and Dean Jim Yoder in June 2016. […]

With a storm on the horizon, the ocean is probably the last place you want to put your valuable instruments. Patrick Deane (left) and Sean Whelan did just that, launching an […]

In June 2016 R/V Neil Armstrong traveled to the edge and slope of the continental shelf south of Cape Cod. The cruise was part of a series of […]

WHOI scientist Anna Michel is developing new ways to measure gases in the air over long distances using a technique called laser spectroscopy. Some of the light […]

Mike Dodge, husband of marine biologist Kara Dodge, prepares to attach a suction cup-mounted tag to the back of a leatherback sea turtle in waters near Cape Cod recently. Both […]

WHOI geologist Maurice Tivey has an unusual speciality: He studies the magnetic properties of rocks. When volcanic magma solidifies, magnetic crystals form in rocks and become oriented in […]

Members of the Wampanoag tribal nation (foreground) welcome the crew from the Hōkūle’a at WHOI this summer. Hokule’a is a traditional Polynesian sailing canoe currently on a round-the-world tour […]

Large orange floats line the edge of the WHOI dock. In a couple of weeks, they’ll board the R/V Neil Armstrong bound for the Coastal Pioneer Array, an ocean observatory […]

The life cycle of eels still holds many mysteries for scientists. Eels are believed to mate and lay their eggs in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean—but no […]