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Sometimes lying down on the job is a good thing. One of the features of the new research vessel Neil Armstrong is the fact that its A-frame, the large gray hoist…

How do you approach the subject of your research if it is the largest animal in the ocean (and on the planet)? Very carefully—and from the air as well as…

Engineers Jason Kapit and Anna Michel test a laser spectrometer designed to detect changing levels of methane in the atmosphere. The system shoots a laser beam between two points in…

It wouldn’t be summer in Woods Hole without this annual ritual photo on the front porch of the humble Walsh Cottage on the WHOI campus, documenting this year’s Geophysical Fluid…

Harry Burnett, steward on R/V Neil Armstrong, answered questions from a group of people touring the ship during WHOI’s recent “Welcome Home Armstrong” public event. Burnett is in charge of ‘hospitality’…

WHOI researcher Alex Bocconcelli deploys a recording device in Wellfleet Harbor as part of a project to detect dolphins and whales before they strand themselves on shore. The harbor is a…

Forty-seven years ago today, the astronaut Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap for mankind” and became the first person to walk on the moon. Many people remember exactly where…

WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson; Pete Liarikos, Bosun on R/V Armstrong; Mike Jech, scientist at the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center; and Armstrong crew member Connor McDonnell(L to R) manage a…

Graduate student Anna Wargula (above, at a 2014 open house) will speak on “The Power of Waves at Martha’s Vineyard” in the summer talk series, “Science Made Public,” July 19…

A glaciologist, a physical oceanographer, and a geophysical fluid dynamicist walk onto a glacier….! WHOI scientists Sarah Das, Fiamma Straneo, and Claudia Cenedese all study ways the ice and ocean…

WHOI engineer Jared Schwartz “ballasts” an underwater glider to prepare it for a mission in the ocean about 100 miles off the southern coast of New England. Ballasting involves measuring…

Each summer, undergraduates from around the world come to WHOI to learn about ocean science. The summer fellowship, which started in 1959, gives visiting students the opportunity to get hands-on…

WHOI offers students a unique Geodynamics Program that fosters interdisciplinary research among faculty, Joint Program students and postdoctoral fellows. Each year a different theme is the focus of a seminar…

On a June 2016 cruise aboard R/V Neil Armstrong, biologist Phil Alatalo tightens a bolt securing a safety harness for the Digital Autonomous Video Plankton Recorder (DAVPR), which is bolted…

In June, the new research vessel Neil Armstrong opened to the public for guided tours as part of a day of activities to welcome the ship to its home port in Woods…