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NOAA’s HabCamV4 imaging system was developed by WHOI scientists and engineers and captures six stereo image pairs per second resulting in one million images per day as it is […]

A small sample of sediment contained in a tin “boat” burns in a flash of light and 1700ºC (3092ºF) heat at the WHOI Organic Mass Spectrometry Facility. Gases released during combustion […]

Research specialist Stace Beaulieu points to the location of worm burrows on the bottom of a tide pool during an early spring field trip as part of the Biological […]

Research specialist Carl Johnson carefully removes a quartz liner from the sample combustion chamber of an elemental analyzer glowing at 1000°C (1,832°F) just six inches below his fingertips. […]

In August 2014, a team that included WHOI biologist Michael Moore was called to examine a decomposing right whale carcass on an isolated rocky beach in Newport, R.I. The […]

Like each speck of paint in a piece of art, minerals, animal skeletons, and remnants of sea sponges provide a colorful mix when sediment samples from the the Sealoor […]

WHOI engineer John Kemp supervised deployment of the towed vehicle Camper from the fantail of the Swedish research vessel Oden during the 2007 Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition. The vehicle was mobilized to find […]

Crew on the RV Atlantic Explorer enjoyed a spectacular sunset during a research cruise in September 2009 in the Sargasso Sea as part of the Twilight Zone Explorer research project led by Ken […]

On a chilly spring trip to a rocky beach near Woods Hole, Ping Zuo (left) from Nanjing University and WHOI research specialist Annette Frese Govindarajan look for barnacles recently settled on rocks […]

Alvin generates excitement, no matter where it goes. The deep-diving submersible and its support ship, R/V Atlantis, happen to be in Woods Hole at a time that coincides with […]

Arborists measure the girth of a massive copper beech tree on Challenger Drive on the WHOI village campus that has provided the Woods Hole community with shade and inspiration […]

Tevnia jerichonana tubeworms sprout from a “sandwich”—an artificial colonization surface made of non-toxic plastic. This sandwich was recovered from the seafloor after spending 11 months in a hydrothermal vent habitat along […]

When a ship arrives in port, the first line over the side is usually a thin heaving line with a balled “monkey fist” knot on the end that acts as […]

WHOI biologist and environmental scientist Neel Aluru recently received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). NIEHS created the award to encourage […]