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Scientists and crew on R/V Sikuliaq work along the edge of a large multi-year ice flow during SKQ202014S in Oct/Nov 2020. (Photo by Ethan Roth, R/V Sikuliaq)

Swirling parcels of water, called ocean eddies, spin off from the warm Gulf Stream, the powerful northward-flowing current that hugs the U.S. East Coast. This visualization was generated by a numerical model that simulates ocean circulation. WHOI researchers study ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, and their behavior. (Image Credit: © NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization)

Mooring floats rise to the surface in a tangle among the sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre. (Photo by Isabela Le Bras, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Isabela Le Bras teaches high school students in Ensenada, Mexico about the Coriolis effect. (Photo by one of her students).

A Spray underwater glider (http://gliders.whoi.edu) on the surface just after deployment from Seychelles Coast Guard Patrol Ship Etoile in the western equatorial Indian Ocean. (Photo by Robert E. Todd, 10 March 2017, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Ryan Laffey prepares glass ball hardhat flotation in the Mooring Lab (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

Climate group discussion. Postdoc and summer research students discuss how the ocean affects the water cycle during the last millennium. Ocean properties from the Indian Ocean based on historic observational data are compared with results from computer simulations. (Photo by Justin Buchli , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution).

A Spray underwater glider on the surface just after deployment in the Gulf Stream offshore of Miami, Florida. Photo by Robert E. Todd, 24 July 2019.

Andy Davies, in the computer lab of the R/V Revelle, poses for a science party headshot at start of the Deep Madagascar Basin cruise RR2303 April-May 2023. (Photo by Alexis Mullin)