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In 1961 WHOI research vessel the Chain hosted Monaco’s royal family for Thanksgiving dinner. R/V Chain made port in Monaco during the American holiday and Prince Rainer and Princess Grace […]

On a warm December day, members of the WHOI staff and their families gathered at Meteor House on the Woods Hole Campus to celebrate the holidays with new President and […]

Each year in mid-December the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers take it upon themselves to spread holiday cheer throughout the Institution. An energetic and intrepid group dons their elf hats and […]

Cody Meissner of the WHOI Mooring Lab terminates a length of wire rope for a deep-ocean mooring.  Moored buoys are one tool researchers use to collect information about the […]

Arctic researchers often launch their expeditions from Svalbard, Norway, where this statue of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach both poles, provides inspiration. WHOI biologist Cabell […]

WHOI scientists Virginia Edgcomb and Joan Bernhard led a 2011 expedition in the Mediterranean to investigate one of earth’s harshest environments—Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHABs). These […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Julie van der Hoop (left), David Morin (center) of NOAA Fisheries, and Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI, prepare to deploy […]

WHOI engineer Jeff O’Brien attaches an upward looking sonar (ULS) onto a mooring to prepare it for deployment earlier in 2015 as part […]

Brian Hogue and Sophia Merrifield assist WHOI Senior Scientist Louis St. Laurent in deploying a Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP) from the deck of the R/V […]

Bostwick H. “Buck” Ketchum is pictured working in jacket and tie aboard WHOI’s original Atlantis  in the mid-1950s. Ketchum was an early leader in developing the field of […]

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Astrid Pacini captured a serene midnight sunset on a research cruise off Iceland in August. Pacini went as an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) […]

Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI physical oceanographer and director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute, holds a tag line during test deployment of an expendable spar buoy (X-Spar). Clayson […]

WHOI engineers Mike Jakuba (left) and Molly Curran steady the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle as it is loaded onto R/V Tioga in September for […]

On a recent trip Panama’s Coiba National Park led by WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda, AUV specialist Jeff Anderson and WHOI postdoctoral scholar Yogi Girdhar (left to right) deployed the SeaBED-class […]

In Tokyo, Japan this October, WHOI scientist Ken Buesseler and Japanese colleagues briefed US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy about radioactivity levels and sources in the ocean near the […]