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Trieste Leads the Way

January 23, 2016

Fifty-six years ago today, Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh made history by diving inside the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to the deepest known spot in the ocean, the Challenger […]

R/V Neil Armstrong: Panama Canal

On November 23, 2015, R/V Neil Armstrong entered the Panama Canal through the Miraflores Locks on its way from the Pacific to the Atlantic and eventually to the U.S. East […]

R/V Neil Armstrong Entering San Francisco

On November 7, 2015, R/V Neil Armstrong completed its inaugural voyage, sailing into San Francisco Harbor on a sunny Saturday morning.

Science Under Sail

January 22, 2016

Students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Roman Shor (second from right) of the Sea […]

Adventures in Science

January 21, 2016

“Science is an adventure, not a career,” WHOI microbiologist Holger Jannasch (1927-1998) once said. Equally at home in the lab or at sea, Jannasch is remembered for making […]

Outer Space to Inner Space

January 20, 2016

WHOI scientists are known for the fact that many of them address some of the most immediate and pressing questions of our time. MIT-WHOI graduate student Adam Sarafian, however, […]

Ships Out of Water

January 19, 2016

Two vessels in the U.S. academic research fleet, Atlantis (foreground) and Neil Armstrong, rest stern-to-stern in dry dock in Charleston, […]

Safe Haven

January 18, 2016

An anemone fish finds refuge in its namesake location–an anemone. This pair were photographed in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), a place that has drawn attention from […]

Grabbing Sediment

January 17, 2016

A Van Veen grab is lowered to the seafloor, where the two halves of the scoop will close, “grabbing” a large scoop of […]

Oceanographer Emeritus George Hampson (right) contributed to many studies of invertebrates in marine systems, ranging from the intertidal zone to deep water. He was also one of the pioneering scientists to […]

REMUS 6000 Animation

January 15, 2016

Testing the Water

WHOI supporter Harry Hollum (left) holds a sampling kit that marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler (right) developed to help citizen scientists on the West Coast collect water to be tested for […]

Ice Base

January 14, 2016

Data from the ice-covered Arctic Ocean are hard to come by because the region is extremely remote and the environment hostile. Scientists and engineers are overcoming these challenges by deploying […]

Roaring Forties

January 13, 2016

A wave breaks over the fantail of the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer, drenching several people working on deck during a WHOI-led equipment recovery operation in November 2015. The […]

Carried by the River

January 12, 2016

The world’s river systems sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide by transporting decaying organic material from land to the ocean. Although river transport of carbon to the ocean is not large […]

Mysterious Microbes

January 11, 2016

WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill, shown here giving a presentation in 2013, studies the relationships between microorganisms and marine animals. Like humans, marine animals have bacteria living on their skin. […]

Doors Closing

January 8, 2016

Gates in the Miraflores Lock of the Panama Canal close behind R/V Neil Armstrong as the ship passed from the Pacific to the Atlantic recently on its inaugural […]

Class In Session

January 7, 2016

WHOI engineer Marshall Swartz (right) instructs Louis Clement, a post-doctoral scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, on the technical intricacies of a CTD rosette equipped with a lowered acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP). […]