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Skidmore College senior and Ocean Research Experience (ORE) Fellow Jay Brett (center) dissects a fish with the help of WHOI marine biologist Vicke Starzcak (left) and MIT/WHOI graduate student Maya…

Researchers think dolphins may be particularly good at avoiding something humans are susceptible to: the bends. Evidence suggests dolphins get bubbles in their veins when they swim up from the…

What look like colorful floating landscapes might better be called “oilscapes.” They were created by WHOI scientists using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography, which identifies thousands of individual chemical compounds that…

WHOI Senior Scientist Raymond Schmitt has been elected a 2012 fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), one of 61 new fellows who are being recognized by AGU for “exceptional scientific…

Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jim Yoder (left) gave U.S. Senator Scott Brown (Mass.) an overview of WHOI’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) program in August 2011. On…

Sediment trap samples, such as these recovered from a mooring off Cape Hatteras by the R/V Oceanus in October 2011, offer scientists a glimpse into the complex and often hidden…

After three weeks in the northern Atlantic in August 2010, WHOI researchers Jeff Hood and Kathryn Rose were greeted at the Woods Hole dock by colleagues, friends and family. They…

In September 2011, Bob Weller prepared to depart the WHOI dock on R/V Oceanus, on a cruise to deploy a crucial test buoy as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative.…

Senior Scientist Lloyd Keigwin, whose research focuses on climate and oceanographic change based on studies of deep-sea sediments, is among 14 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement…

Scientists need to get inside the heads of whales to learn how they sense sound. Even before they study a whale’s ears, scientists examine its anatomy to get a sense…

WHOI research technician Steve Pike is shown packing water samples on board the R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa in June 2011 off the northeast coast of Japan. Pike was part of an international…

Captain Arthur Dickson Colburn examined a gyrocompass repeater mounted on the deck of the original research vessel Atlantis in the 1950s. The repeater was connected to the main compass inside the…

A team from R/V Knorr prepares to deploy a mooring in the Denmark Strait in August 2011. The instruments on the mooring will help measure water flowing through the strait…

Chinstrap penguins from the world’s largest colony of the birds stand on the black sand of Deception Island, a volcanic island off West Antarctica. WHOI scientist Scott Doney traveled there…

WHOI researcher Bruce Keafer shows a group of science writers in the 2011 Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP). Scientists are using the instrument to detect…

Scuba divers can get sick ascending too quickly from a deep dive. But can whales? To find out, biologist Michael Moore and colleagues at WHOI looked closely at a lesion in the…