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WHOI oceanographer Fiamma Straneo, along with ten colleagues from WHOI and abroad, called the 130-foot research vessel Fox home during a two week expedition in September off the coast of…

A camera mounted on a rosette sampler captured this unusual view of the starboard A-frame of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy from the water of the Beaufort Sea north of…

Icebergs were a common sight around the British icebreaker James Clark Ross during a 30-day summer research cruise along Greenland’s east coast to the high-Arctic island of Spitsbergen. The expedtion, led…

While Hurricane Sandy was lashing the East Coast, a low-pressure system was making life difficult for the scientists and crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy. The team was…

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, danced across the night sky during a recent expedition by physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo to southeastern Greenland. Straneo and her colleagues were there to…

On an expedition off the Galápagos Islands in 2010, scientists used a dredge attached to a cable to collect samples of volcanic rocks from the seafloor. When the dredge returned to…

In October 2011 the Center for Vision Loss, an agency serving visually impaired people of eastern Pennsylvania, awarded their first-ever “Chrysalis Award” to WHOI scientist Amy Bower. The award ,…

Just because it’s known as a research “cruise” doesn’t mean life is easy for the scientists, engineers and students on board. During a recent, month-long expedition on R/V Knorr, MIT/WHOI…

George Tupper, a WHOI engineer and private pilot, had often thought about photographing the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr from the air to capture the ship turning on its axis. Tupper’s opportunity…

University of Connecticut scientist Jim Edson (left) and WHOI technician Steve Faluotico install an instrument on a buoy prior to a cruise to the saltiest spot in the North Atlantic…

This delicate fan-shaped colony of a golden-colored algae called Dinobryon was found in a surprising place—beneath sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. Scientists had assumed ice blocked sunlight that microscopic…

Climate change—particularly changes in the monsoon—prompted dramatic changes in how the peoples of ancient India lived. WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Camilo Ponton, and colleagues gathered evidence…

When one of the big ships is in port during heavy weather, they get all the best points on the dock to tie off. Standard practice calls for two bow…

When scientists leave instruments in the ocean to do long-term measurements, they need a way to keep their gear afloat. One way to keep them from sinking is to use…

An autonomous underwater glider, is recovered to the R/V Knorr. The glider, preprogrammed with navigation waypoints before deployment, maneuvers through the ocean without an external propulsion system, traversing the upper…

In August, scientists and engineers began moving into the new 26,000-square-foot Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems building on WHOI’s Quisset campus. The facility contains lab and office spaces for…

A Subsurface Mooring Operations crew on a cruise to Line W recovers a buoy that collected data for the Access to the Sea program. Named in memory of Val Worthington,…