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This photo of Elizabeth Bigelow, wife of founding director of WHOI Henry Bigelow, was taken more than 60 years ago. The Bigelows were wed in 1906, a marriage that […]

Engineer Loral O’Hara designed new racks to carry equipment on the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. The racks hold pressure housings—the titanium bottles that house […]

Speaking at WHOI in December 2014, Pamela Goldberg, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), had high praise for WHOI’s Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) and its potential […]

Over the course of nearly six decades at WHOI, Hartley Hoskins has been an integral part of the Institution’s fabric. He sailed on R/V Oceanus when the ship was […]

The heading blocks that tell watchstanders on R/V Neil Armstrong the direction the ship is supposed to be traveling share a console with the slightly higher tech dynamic positioning […]

WHOI machinist Timothy Kling cuts titanium into a component for the frame of the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. He is using a water […]

A clam rake is the instrument of choice for MIT-WHOI joint program student Megan May as she hunts for clams at Little Island Beach in Falmouth. May is using genetic […]

Derek Bergeron, relief chief mate for R/V Neil Armstrong, helped change wires while testing the main traction winch during the ship’s inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Washington to San Francisco […]

Entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. When whales become tangled in fishing gear, such as buoys, and lobster and […]

WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz analyze data on currents collected off Cape Hatteras. Gawarkiewicz studies the Read More

WHOI friends and supporters aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong during the ship’s 2015 inaugural trip, watched […]

John Kemp of the WHOI Mooring Operations, Engineering and Field Support Group is lowered in a crane-operated basket from the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent in […]

Biofouling can be a serious problem for oceanographic equipment that spends any amount of time at the surface or in the upper ocean and was one of the reasons […]

The ocean has two kinds of microbes: Autotrophs use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into organic carbon, while heterotrophs convert organic carbon such as glucose into nutrients. Scientists are developing new […]

A work crew fits the boom to R/V Atlantis‘ new mizzen mast in this undated photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis was the first […]

Crewmember Daryl Tobin from the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent secures a line on a mooring that had been tethered to the seafloor in the Arctic Ocean. The instrument […]

Pilot Jefferson Grau discusses the submersible Alvin’s systems and capabilities with professor Diane Adams, of Rutgers University (left) and Professor Jen Glass of Georgia Tech […]

During monsoons, the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers export 50 metric tons of carbon-containing sediments per day into the Bay of Bengal. WHOI scientists study rivers around the world to […]