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To get through heavy ice cover, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy sometimes has to back up, get a running start, and ram its way forward. During an Read More

Since its formal commissioning on June 5, 1964, the human-occupied vehicle Alvin has been probing the world’s oceans, providing an up-close look at hydrothermal vents and other features […]

Able-bodied seaman Raul Martinez and SSSG technician Allison Heater prepare the human-occupied vehicle Alvin for a dive during its Science Verification Cruise in March 2014. After communicating with […]

WHOI technicians Rick Sanger (left) and Phil Santos load iron plates onto the research submersible Alvin before a dive. The plates help Alvin descend through the water […]

In 2008, WHOI chemist Scott Doney (pictured) testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology’s subcommittee on Energy and Environment about the Federal Ocean Acidification […]

WHOI scientist Krista Longnecker built this small-scale electrodialysis system to remove salt from seawater collected during the DeepDOM reseach cruise in the spring of 2013. […]

WHOI engineers Neil McPhee and Will Ostrom and Northeastern University student Ethan Edson (left to right) were part of a team who deployed three Environmental Sample Processors (ESPs) in […]

A tugboat assists the WHOI research vessel Knorr in its March 2013 departure from a jam-packed port in Montevideo, Uruguay. An interdisciplinary team of scientists aboard the Read More

Cystic fibrosis is a disease that afflicts tens of thousands of people in the United States. The disease is caused by a mutation in a protein, called the cystic fibrosis […]

Buoys line the rail of R/V Knorr prior to its departure in mid-April for the Pioneer Array, a network of moorings and autonomous robotic vehicles programmed to monitor waters […]

A researcher examines a supergiant amphipod (Alicella gigantea), a crustacean brought up in a fish trap from 7,200 meters (nearly 4-1/2 miles) deep in the Kermadec Trench. How this […]

WHOI biologist Tim Shank (front), engineer Casey Machado (behind Shank), and graduate student Santiago Herrera (yellow shirt) view live, high-def video of the deep seafloor during the final dive […]

Birds ride in the wake of F/V Karen Elizabeth as crew members recover a bottom trawl filled with butterfish at the New England continental shelf edge. Working with fishermen from […]

A crew member on research vessel Thomas G. Thompson signals the crane operator to lower a hadal lander into the water above the Kermadec Trench northeast of New Zealand. […]

An 11 p.m. sunset reflects off the ice during the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST) research cruise in 2009. Scientists from WHOI and other institutions across the United States spent 38 days […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Britta Voss samples riverbank sediment from the Chilcotin River in British Columbia in October 2010, when low water levels exposed its banks. The Chilcotin, […]

Sadie Mills, from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, keeps track of specimens being prepared by colleagues on the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson. Scientists […]