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Ian Hanley, first mate on WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga, oversees offloading a FlowCytobot, which uses a laser to count and identify tiny marine plants called phytoplankton. The instrument spent several months at the Martha’s…

Third mate Amy Biddle (right) and bosun Peter Liarikos prepare to tie up to a surface mooring to ready it for ship recovery on the R/V Neil Armstrong. The mooring…

WHOI senior engineering assistant Dan Kot refurbishes one of the glass pressure housings from an ocean-bottom seismograph (OBS). This type of seismograph is used to measure the movement of the…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Min Xu (front) and Min Ding, trek in the Italian Alps on a study tour to examine a geologic formation called an ophiolite. This type of…

Sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, Mass., Mykyla Gallion, Alexia Morton, and Kyarra Lopes (left to right) test a remotely operated vehicle they built during a summer educational…

Scientists drill a hole through meter-thick sea ice to collect water samples in the Arctic Ocean. MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Lauren Kipp was among scientists from several research institutions…

WHOI physical oceanographer Anthony Kirincich (right) shows local NPR reporter Brian Morris data from an instrument that uses lasers to measure wind speeds. The instrument, called a Wind Cube, is…

As a WHOI Postdoctoral Scholar in 2004, geologist Adam Soule, shown here on a cliff of hardened lava in Hawaii, helped to lead the Geodynamics study tour, the culmination of…

Former WHOI Director John Steele presents a model of WHOI’s first research vessel Atlantis to astronauts Woody Spring and Jerry Ross, who flew on NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis in 1986.…

The Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) held its annual symposium at WHOI in September, with more than 100 women—and a few men—attending the sold-out free event. Speakers described…

WHOI’s newest ship, the R/V Neil Armstrong, catches the late afternoon light as the harvest moon, the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, rises above the ship. The state-of-the-art,…

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 seminars, field…

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 their…

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 cameras,…

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 team…