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Exhibit preparator Sean Murtha installs a new exhibit at the  Ocean Science Exhibit Center entitled The Deep Sea. The exhibit was orginally displayed at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, […]

Chen Cai, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis organizes one of the 16 seismic stations that a team led partly by WHOI geophysicist Ralph Stephen set up […]

A rock sample, collected from the Central Indian Ridge, a mountain chain running through the Indian Ocean, sparkles with information. It’s interior is lined with a fine-grained mineral called chalcopyrite […]

In WHOI’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFD), scientists study small versions of ocean currents, eddies, and flows. Scientist Claudia Cenedese and graduate students in the Physical Oceanography […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jessie Pearl led a team into the Acushnet Cedar Swamp State Reservation in New Bedford, Mass., recently in search of white cedar trees from […]

Ocean plankton ranges in size from tiny plant-like cells to gelatinous animals that can be almost as long as a bus but with soft, jelly-like bodies. This comb […]

It was -22°F in March 2014 when WHOI engineers Kris Newhall (left) and John Kemp landed in a Twin Otter aircraft on an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea. They were […]

Porpita porpita, also called the blue button jelly, floats at or near the surface of the water and drifts with the wind. This flower-like floater, related to jellyfish, is […]

The original personnel sphere of the human-occupied vehicle Alvin was shaped from a steel plate in 1964 at Lukens Steel Co. in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. That sphere was used until 1973, when […]

A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters before the flags of the original Antarctic Treaty nations: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, […]

A marine science technician aboard the U.S.Coast Guard Healy pushes a conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) rosette during a spring 2009 research cruise to study the Bering Sea ecosystem. A CTD is made […]

In this 1960 photo, Mary Sears is surrounded by papers and biological samples in her Bigelow Laboratory office. Sears was the first recipient of the original Woman Pioneer in Oceanography […]

Raul Martinez and Allison Heater (both standing) finish preparing Alvin for a dive during the sub’s Science Verification Cruise in March 2014. Martinez and Heater are crewmembers of R/V Atlantis and […]

Falmouth High School art teacher Jane Baker and WHOI biologist Becky Gast took 52 art and English students to Provincetown this fall to do what generations of artists […]

Alvinella pompejana is named after the submersible Alvin and the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a volcano. Also known as the Pompeii worm, it can withstand the hottest temperatures of […]

On a calm, cold afternoon in January, a team from the Oceanographic Systems Lab at WHOI took a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle for a test run in […]