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WHOI scientists (left to right) Glen Gawarkiewicz, Scott Doney, Jeff Donnelly and Dan McCorkle […]

A group gathered on the stern of R/V Chain during a thermistor chain deployment in 1958. Although this sensor array is often called a “chain,” it […]

U.S. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., (back row, center) wishes the submersible Alvin a happy 50th birthday while holding a t-shirt commemorating the occasion during a recent visit to […]

Before the advent of computers, researchers had to sift through data by hand. In 1962, scientist Carl Bowin installed the first computer on a WHOI ship, an IBM “1620” to analyze […]

RAFOS floats await deployment to the Iceland Sea aboard the R/V Hakon Mosby, operated by the Institute for Marine Research (IMR) in Bergen, Norway. This July, WHOI’s Read More

Research asssociate Carolina Nobre snapped this shot from the bridge of R/V Knorr during one of three O-SNAP cruises to the North Atlantic this summer. The […]

WHOI senior engineer Lee Frey of the Oceanographic Systems Laboratory helps test a new multibeam sensor mounted to the underside of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that can […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program students Alexis Fischer and Isabela Le Bras braved the January cold to conduct sediment cores in search of the plankton Alexandrium fundyense at […]

A REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle picked up an unexpected follower during a 2013 expedition near Guadalupe Island off the northwest coast of Mexico. The vehicle was equipped with […]

Bright sun and shadows from clouds and choppy waves can make spotting marine mammals  difficult on a research ship at sea. Here, Dr. Ajith Kumar, of the National Centre […]

A spectator watched as R/V Knorr gots a lift from a massive crane while in dry dock in Amelie, Louisiana, in 1989. The then-20-year-old research ship was […]

Climate change was the talk of the day for U.S. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., (head of the table on the left) during a visit to WHOI in July. Markey […]

An Emperor penguin stretches its wing to rid it of snow after standing up. Emperors travel long distances on ice by “swimming” on their bellies. WHOI biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier […]

A group of this year’s Summer Student Fellows posed for a photo during a day trip in Buzzards Bay on R/V Tioga. The students, sporting sediment taken from a […]

WHOI mooring technician John Kemp surveys the shoreline of Greenland as R/V Knorr transited through Prince Christian Sound at the extreme southern end of the island. The sound is […]

WHOI’s Employee Recognition Day earlier in the summer acknowledged the labors of several individuals and groups who have made a difference to the Institution over the past year. Al Suchy, […]