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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 at McDermott Shipyard…

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 heard…

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 recently…

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 grab sampler,…

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 60…

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,…

These are the deck plans for WHOI’s first research ship, Atlantis, which arrived in Woods Hole ready for science on August 31, 1931. The 142-foot-long ketch was built in Copenhagen,…

Duke University graduate student Nick Foukal recovers a conductivity temperature depth (CTD) rosette during a recent cruise on R/V Knorr in the North Atlantic. During the trip, a team led…

A polar bear pulls itself onto a small floe to rest between seal-hunting forays. The volume of sea ice in the Arctic has declined sharply in recent decades, with grave…

Deep waters don’t run still, they are moved by currents, turbulence, and “internal waves” that cannot be seen at the surface. In a landmark experiment in the mid-1990s, WHOI scientists…

Deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites host dense communities of animals in a food web built on chemical energy from beneath the seafloor. These sites experience frequent disturbances, like volcanic eruptions, that…

Each summer, undergraduates from colleges and universities around the world come to WHOI to learn more about ocean science in the Summer Student Fellowship Program. This year, 30 rising seniors spent 10-12…

Each summer, members of the Institution’s 1930 Society roll up their sleeves and participate in science immersion experiences in New York, Boston, and Woods Hole. Here, society members aboard R/V Tioga get up…

In February 1996, WHOI launched its newest vessel, Atlantis, in Moss Point, Mississippi. Atlantis arrived in Woods Hole in April 1997 and three months later deployed for science operations. Measuring 274…

Physical oceanographer Emily Shroyer (Oregon State University) examines a CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth) sensor specially designed to take measurements while a ship is underway. Shroyer used the CTD on…

Fifty years ago, the research submersible Alvin celebrated its start of service to science in a ceremony attended by hundreds at the WHOI dock. Since then, it has transported hundreds of…

WHOI instructor Hovey Clifford (right) shows summer student fellows Maya Becker (Columbia University) and Jacob Forsyth (Bowdoin College) how to rinse down a sample of sediment collected with a grab…