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Technicians aboard the research vessel Melville deploy a wire-following profiler as part of a Global Hybrid Profiler Mooring at Station Papa in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The Station Papa installation is a key step in the Ocean Observatories Initiative,…

Scientists and students on board the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy gather around a computer to learn how to to guide a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) package to the seafloor and back. …

In May and June 2014, a cruise co-led by WHOI scientist Bob Pickart aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy went to the Arctic to study large phytoplankton blooms forming…

Amy Maas, a postdoc in the labs of WHOI biologists Gareth Lawson and Ann Tarrant, joined fellow postdoc Mike Lowe in testing a plankton pump aboard the R/V Tioga in…

The research vessel Knorr left Woods Hole on Sunday for the final cruise of its career at WHOI. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled more than one million miles in support of research on…

David Gallo, Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, addressed members of the U.S. House of Representatives at a reception to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the HOV…

Under the microscope are two female copepods of different species, caught on a spring 2014 cruise in the Chukchi Sea. The cruise, aboard the USCG icebreaker Healy, aimed to study…

In October 2013, Woods Hole Sea Grant–Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Agent Joshua Reitsma (left) and a shellfish grower examined the growth of “blood arks” (Anadara ovalis), on Cape Cod, Mass.…

The ocean is absorbing rising levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and becoming more acidic. How will that affect squid, a key animal in the marine food web? WHOI…

Sunny skies and calm seas eased R/V Knorr’s transit through the 60-mile-long Prince Christian Sound during a cruise to sample currents off the coast of Greenland this summer. The sound is…

A morning rainbow appeared behind the research vessel Knorr’s stack during a 2013 expedition known as the DeepDOM cruise. An interdisciplinary team of scientists onboard studied the composition of dissolved organic…

The ocean is an increasingly noisy place. Sounds from shipping, oil and gas exploration, and other human activities are making it more difficult for marine mammals to hear. “Hearing is…

Onlookers on shore and at sea enjoyed a clear view of the Golden Gate Bridge during a recent R/V Atlantis transit. WHOI ships often make port calls in major cities,…

A researcher takes a break to take in the sunset between CTD casts aboard the R/V Knorr this summer. Such casts, together with mooring deployments and RAFOS float launches, were a…

Members of the O-SNAP research cruise take the “ice bucket challenge” to raise money for ALS research aboard the R/V Knorr in late August. Unlike the thousands of celebrities and…

University of Washington undergraduate student Robert Joseph Daniels helps secure a just-recovered CTD rosette aboard R/V Knorr at sunset off the coast of Greenland this summer. Daniels was a part…

Tailgating on the beach? Surfers awaiting the perfect wave? It was a little bit of both for students taking a Field Methods and Coastal Oceanography course, offered through WHOI’s Academic…