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A special, thick-walled tank permits guest investigator Sheng-Qi Zhou from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, China, to observe mixing processes under the pressures experienced deep in the…

In the 1950s, WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder chartered the Captain Bill II so he could collect and study fish off the Northeast Coast. Here, Schroeder displays a deep-sea fish called chimaera.…

As part of the TREET (Transforming Remotely Conducted Research Through Ethnography, Education & Rapidly Evolving Technologies) program, early-career scientists and undergraduate students learned how to use telepresence technology during a…

Jimmy Bramante, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, collected a core sample from an Atlantic white cedar tree in Cape Cod National Seashore recently. Tree growth is often…

There are few observations of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Southern Hemisphere outside the tropics, yet the Southern Ocean plays a critical role in Earth’s climate and the stability of the…

The temperature was -39°F when WHOI engineers John Kemp and Kris Newhall (pictured) and colleagues set up camp on a Beaufort Sea ice floe in March 2014. They were there…

On October 16, 1968, at the beginning of Dive 308, two steel cables supporting Alvin‘s lowering cage parted. The sub plunged about 15 feet (4.5 meters), then bobbed to the…

In March 2011 one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded shook Japan, creating a tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and resulted in the largest unintentional release…

In August 2014, R/V Knorr transited through Prince Christian Sound, a 60-mile (100-kilometer) strait in southern Greenland that narrows in places to only 1,500 feet (500 meters). The sound connects the…

This stealthy-looking vehicle is a VPR, or Video Plankton Recorder, which images plankton and particles as it is towed through the water while software on the ship automatically identifies the organisms…

At an open house that she hosted in the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) Laboratory, scientist Claudia Cenedese invited visitors to have their portrait taken with a thermal-imaging camera, which…

The Mesocosm Lab at WHOI is a unique facility that gives scientists the ability to set up realistic natural environments, but on a smaller scale. An underground system draws seawater…

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, Conn., and replicates…

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 as…

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 Department held public…