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Investigating the world of microbes with ROV Jason
At Axial Seamount, WHOI scientists filmed vibrant life at deep-sea vents—ecosystems powered by chemosynthetic microbes in total darkness.
Read More2023 Year in Review
Here’s to another year working for our ocean, our planet, and our future.
Read MoreResilient Woods Hole Climate Walking Tour
Explore Woods Hole’s climate challenges with the Resilient Woods Hole Walking Trail app—free on the App Store and Google Play.
Read MoreNorth Atlantic right whale population leveled off in 2022
There are 356 North Atlantic right whales left, with births balancing deaths—but their critically endangered status remains urgent.
Read MoreOcean Encounters: Becoming a Marine Biologist
Ever dreamed of exploring the ocean and studying amazing marine animals? Discover what it takes to become a marine biologist and what the career looks like.
Read MoreRare look at animals in the ocean twilight zone
The ocean is vast, so scientists use two ocean robots to better spot and study elusive creatures from the deep, dark twilight zone.
Read MoreOcean Encounters: The Arctic
Learn how climate change in the Arctic—melting ice and warming seas—impacts life across our entire planet.
Read MoreWHOI robotics class sets sail
High school students set sail with WHOI to explore ocean robotics over spring break.
Read MoreA tale of two schooners
Following a 1902 collision off the Massachusetts coast, the coal schooners Frank A. Palmer and the Louise B. Crary now exist as one intertwined wreck, captured by here side-scan sonar in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Read MoreCrossata alba jellyfish
Delicate jellyfish such as this Crossota alba thrive in the Ocean Twilight Zone, where no wind, waves, or turbulence can tear them apart. In spite of their fragility, these gelatinous animals are often successful predators
Read MoreAlbert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian-born scientist who spent much of his career at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. He won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his research…
Read MoreSphere implosion
A crushed subsurface flotation sphere is pulled from the Southern Atlantic Ocean in 2018. As part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Argentine Basin Array, the sphere was part of…
Read More50 Researchers, One Question: Ocean Animals
As oceanographers, we are constantly searching for answers, but the ocean is vast. What if we could talk to those who call the ocean home? What would you ask them?
Read MoreTop predator loss of habitat?
Climate change may force sharks, tuna, and billfish out of up to 70% of their current habitat.
Read MoreSpitsbergen Walruses
While observing walrus from the shore of Amsterdam Island in Spitsbergen, Norway, several males kept coming closer to the photographer, Aurora Lampson. “It seemed like they were just as curious…
Read MoreCoral Landscape
It’s not a mountain landscape viewed from above. It’s actually Pavona varians, or “corrugated coral,” photographed under a microscope! This hard-skeleton coral sends tiny white filaments out to snare and…
Read MoreR/V Atlantis recognized by US Coast Guard
In the early morning hours of October 28, 2022, the WHOI research vessel Atlantis responded to a mayday call from a commercial fishing boat sinking off the coast of Virginia.…
Read MoreWHOI President and Director Peter de Menocal dives in Alvin
WHOI President and Director Peter de Menocal took his first dive in the research submersible Alvin on August 2, joined by Janis Coughlin-Piester, Chief Financial Officer and Office Head for…
Read MoreMia and Molly: Between Two Robots
In BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, kid host Mia chats with WHOI “robotologist” Molly Curran about how Mesobot sees and tracks creatures in the deep, dark Twilight Zone.
Read MoreMia and Kaitlyn: Between Two Robots
In BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, kid host Mia asks WHOI robot trainer Kaitlyn Tradd how she protects AUVs from curious (but not hungry!) sharks in the Twilight Zone.
Read MoreMarlon and Ciara: Between Two Robots
Kids take the mic in BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS! In this episode, Marlon asks MIT-WHOI student Ciara Willis why poop matters in the Ocean Twilight Zone.
Read MoreMarlon and Dana: Between Two Robots
In BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, kid host Marlon asks Dana Yoerger—Mesobot’s “dad”—what his robot tastes like and what it sees in the deep, dark Ocean Twilight Zone.
Read MoreOcean: Impossible | Meet ChemYak
Meet ChemYak. The deep ocean is dark, cold, and risky for humans—so we rely on robots to explore and guide us in this vast frontier.
Read MoreOcean: Impossible | Meet CUREE
Meet CUREE. The deep ocean is dark, cold, and risky for humans—so we rely on robots to explore and guide us in this vast frontier.
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