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Designed and built by WHOI scientists, the original vehicle Jason was launched in 1988. A more advanced, second-generation Jason (pictured) launched in 2002. Jason is a remotely operated vehicle—a tether links it to a control room on a […]

Berlinda Batista of Bridgewater State University, Ellin Rittler of University of San Francisco, and Kelly Luis of Columbia University (left to right) learn how to perform a beach survey in the […]

Michael Toomey (front) and Chris Maio, of the Coastal Systems Group, provide small boat support for a coring platform, the R/V Arenaria (pictured in the distance), off the Newfoundland coast. […]

Visitors learned about the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whale detection mooring during a public event in June 2015. The listening system allows researchers to detect the location of […]

WHOI engineers Jim Dunn (foreground) and Matt Gould test an acoustic-release float in Woods Hole Harbor. The float is packed with thousands of feet of line and designed to sit […]

The deep submergence vehicle (DSV)  Aluminaut, shown at WHOI in 1961, was owned by the Reynolds Metals Co. (later Reynolds Aluminum) and operated briefly by WHOI in the early 1960s. […]

Summer Student Fellow Sara Hamilton (left) and Julie Pringle, a laboratory assistant in the Biology Department, use a seine net during a recent fieldtrip to Wood Neck Beach in […]

During his time at WHOI as a Summer Student Fellow, William Goldsmith was occasionally seen fishing for research subjects off the Iselin dock. The summer-long program gives undergraduate […]

Summer Student Fellow Miranda Cashman (front) and Northeastern University student Michelle O’Donnell prepare samples for a germanium gamma detector in the Coastal Systems Lab run by WHOI […]

For years WHOI researchers have been studying ocean acidification and its impacts on marine life. In 2009, WHOI postdoctoral scholar Justin Ries (now at Northeastern University) with WHOI […]

R/V Atlantis crewmember Rick Bean watched as WHOI geologist Wenlu Zhu fired an expired emergency flare from the ship during a 2009 cruise (after first warning other ships in the […]

WHOI scientists are often spotted around Cape Cod leading teams of students on class fieldtrips. Sometimes common features on land can even fill in as simplified examples of larger, […]

WHOI biologist Stace Beaulieu led a group of undergraduate Summer Student Fellows on a tour of beach ecology during a recent fieldtrip to Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth. […]

Research associate Bruce Keafer and senior engineering assistant Jim Dunn wrestle a battery pack onto a frame to hold an Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a computerized mini-laboratory to be […]

In 1948, this WHOI flume was located in a small building behind the Bigelow Laboratory, and was used for studies of phenomena that included the flow of fresh-water into saltwater. […]

Each year, thousands of barrels of oil seep out of the ocean floor. On a 2009 cruise aboard the R/V Atlantis, WHOI chemist Christopher Reddy (right) and Read More