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WHOI microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb (background) studies organisms that live deep beneath the seafloor. In January 2016, Edgcomb was in the Indian Ocean aboard the drillship JOIDES Resolution, on […]

These tiny marine snails are called pteropods (“wing-foot”), or sometimes “sea butterflies,” because of their winglike swimming appendages. Pteropods are plankton that drift in the ocean, providing food for […]

Over its half-century career, the submersible Alvin has allowed scientists to discover many previously unknown deep-sea creatures, including tubeworms, hagfish, and the Yeti crab. An […]

Pilot Chris Lathan adjusts a data logger in Alvin’s wiring harness during a recent major overhaul of the submersible’s systems. The “birdcage,” […]

WHOI biologists Aran Mooney and Laela Sayigh are leading a multi-year effort to study the “soundscape” of Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound—the proposed site of one of the country’s […]

WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly (left) of the Coastal Systems Group and actor Ian Somerhalder hold a sediment core during recent filming for an episode of the documentary TV series “ Read More

This purple fish, Bythites hollisi, was named after Alvin pilot Ralph Hollis, who captured one in 1988 with a net held in Alvin’s manipulator arm. Bythites hollisi is […]

In 1968, Alvin flooded and sank to 5,000 ft. depth when its cradle and support cables snapped while it was being lowered into the water. All […]

Mike Singleton, third mate on WHOI’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong reviewed charts of the Panama Canal prior to passing from the Pacific to the Caribbean in December […]

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking station is prepared for deployment from R/V Atlantis. The dock was successfully deployed in October 2015 at the base of the Pioneer […]

MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Stevens leaps over a stream of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Stevens was part of team (including WHOI scientists Sara Das, Read More

Henry Bigelow (left) and Columbus Iselin—the founder and second director of WHOI, respectively—stand on the deck of the Institution’s first research vessel, Atlantis. Iselin was a student of […]

WHOI technicians Christopher Griner and Amy Simoneau tested the fiber optics in the R/V Neil Armstrong’s large cable during the ship’s inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Wash., to San Francisco […]

WHOI 2015 Summer Student Fellows Jerry Fontus (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julia Lanoue (Brown University) learned how to deploy a water sampling CTD rosette off the fantail […]

Chief mate Dee Emrich (foreground) and other crew members of R/V Neil Armstrong watch a test of the ship’s new CTD handling system. The CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) helps scientists analyze […]

R/V Atlantis (left) and R/V Neil Armstrong recently came out of drydock at Detyen’s Shipyards in Charleston, S.C. Atlantis was in for scheduled maintenance, while Neil Armstrong had the remainder of its science gear installed after sailing […]