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Following the 1985 French-American expedition that discovered the wreck of Titanic, WHOI researchers William Lange, Elazar Uchupi, and Bob Ballard examined all the still and video images captured by deep-sea…

Two of WHOI’s original and most storied leaders teamed up to pull the Insitution’s pioneering original vessel Atlantis away from a Woods Hole dock. WHOI’s first director, Henry Bigelow, (at…

This seemingly solid expanse of ice actually presents a complex oceanographic problem. Surface meltwater flowing through and beneath Helheim Glacier on the left side of the cliff in the center…

Students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program spent 12 days exploring a remote Panamanian island in January 2011. As part of their coursework, (from left) Li Ling Hamady, Liz Drenkard, and…

From the underside, the deep-sea jellyfish Atolla, which can be ten inches across, looks like a flower or a chandelier, not an animal. Atolla is abundant around the world at…

In an April 2009 polar expedition, 41 scientists led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian set off on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy to examine how climate change might be…

During a 2008 expedition, glaciologists Sarah Das (WHOI), right, and Ian Joughin (University of Washington) trek toward a lake that formed as ice melts in summer and pools in depressions…

WHOI researcher Kerry Norton uses fluorescence microscopy to identify and count dormant cysts of Alexandrium fundyense, the alga that produces a toxin that accumulates in shellfish and can cause paralytic…

This little jellyfish may look fragile, but in its own world it’s a predator, hunting unwary prey and well-adapted to a planktonic life suspended in water. Transparency helps it avoid…

Despite smiles on their faces, researchers studying the effects of the 160 million gallon Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in spring 2010 were having anything but a…

Freshly-laid eggs of copepods crowd a petri dish. During a cruise to the Bering Sea in 2009, WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian and colleagues studied the reproduction of the tiny crustaceans,…

WHOI/MIT Joint Program PhD candidate Kim Popendorf filters seawater to collect microbial cells onboard R/V Oceanus in 2008. Each filter can hold more than 250 million cells—equivalent to the population…

Salps are seldom seen by people, but these transparent animals are abundant plankton in the open ocean, and may affect the ocean’s carbon cycle. In alternating generations salps reproduce by…

Culture flasks containing marine microorganisms could be the source of new treatments for cystic fibrosis, through work recently begun by WHOI microbiologist Tracy Mincer and the Flatley Discovery Lab in…

Saudi Arabian researchers Majdy Hamed Alharbi (left) and Muhammad Ali Al-Ghamdi gathered water samples during an autumn 2011 cruise in the eastern Red Sea. The cruise, lead by WHOI physical…

A group of undergraduate students came to WHOI to sample oceanography during their 2012 winter break, through the Institutions Ocean Research Experience (ORE) program. The students, from liberal arts colleges,…