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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 Davis…

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 seafloor depressions hold water…

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 gear from…

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

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 Nathaniel B. Palmer during the Dynamics on Mid-Ocean…

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 biological oceanography…

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) watch-stander with…

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 and senior…

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 trials off…

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 vehicle Jaguar…

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 Fukushima…

King crabs may be an important economic marine resource in many regions, but they are also a high-level predator that, in the wrong place, can have devastating impacts on the…

In 1949, WHOI biologist William Schevill, right, and his wife Barbara Lawrence used a crude hydrophone and a dictating machine to record beluga whales from a small boat in the…

Gliders released off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters exchange in the economically important waters…

New research by scientists at WHOI and the University of California, has demonstrated that Trichodesmium (shown here), a key organism in the ocean’s food web, will start reproducing at high speed…