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WHOI biologist Michael Moore releases a drone from a boat in the Gulf of Corcovado off the southern coast of Chile while a blue whale swims in the distance. In…

On what was known as the “Popping Rocks” expedition, a research team led by WHOI geochemist Mark Kurz used the submersible Alvin and the R/V Atlantis to collect samples of…

WHOI’s founding director Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967) was one of the giants of U.S. oceanography. His interests spanned both the ocean’s physical characteristics and the natural history of marine animals,…

WHOI biologist Cabell Davis photographed this Arctic denizen when he served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015. Led by Michael Aw of…

Keelan Murphy (left), a student at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and Mary Lardie, a technician in the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility at WHOI, extracted samples from…

WHOI biologist Ann Tarrant collects animals from a Woods Hole, Mass., salt marsh to culture and study in the lab. Tarrant investigates the genes invertebrate animals use to respond to…

Like cars, even high-tech underwater robots like the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry need periodic maintenance and upgrades. Before Sentry took part in a recent cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to…

WHOI biologist Cabell Davis photographed this Arctic denizen when he served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015. Led by Michael Aw of…

Many processes that marine scientists study also have connections to dry land. Last year, students and faculty explored the rocks surrounding the Snake River Plain Yellowstone Hotspot, which lies underneath…

A pilot boat pulls away from R/V Atlantis as it departed Charleston, S.C., recently on a mission to the site of the sunken cargo ship El Faro. The WHOI team on…

Six years after the blow-out of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy (right), is still finding oil from the accident along…

WHOI engineering assistant Ben Tradd and senior engineer and Jason program manager Matt Heintz align the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason over its coupled payload basket during dock tests after the…

Some young visitors to WHOI’s Ocean Science Exhibit Center learned about oil spills and some of the clean-up techniques during Splash Lab last summer. At the Exhibit Center, visitors can…

Derya Akkaynak, an MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, was with a group of divers watching two dozen manta rays off Kona, Hawaii, when she had an epiphany: all around her, on…