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Cyanobacteria and other microbiota produce thick mats that bind sedimentary particles and can form stromatolites such as these crusting a pool in Shark Bay, Australia. Because they include hard components…

Able Seaman Susan Coleman makes repairs to R/V Knorr while out at sea. She was participating in the DynAMITE (Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment) cruise led by…

Often it’s the smallest creatures that tell us about the largest climate issues. Summer Student Fellow Max Kaplan, visiting from St. Andrew’s in Scotland, turned to the recently hatched longfin…

The remotely operated vehicle Jason, seen here being recovered after a mission, was designed and built by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI to give scientists access to the seafloor…

WHOI microbial ecologist Rebecca Gast checks the distances between sample sites on the beach at Duck, N.C., as research associate Levi Gorrell places a coring tube and physical oceanographer Britt…

Crystal Breier, Kamila Stastna, Ken Buesseler, and Sachiko Yoshida (left to right) draw water from a rosette sampler in June 2011 on board the R/V Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa. The cruise was organized…

Icebergs catch the morning light outside Sermilik Fjord near the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. Massive icebergs like these break off from outlet glaciers that connect directly to the…

Researchers gather samples of mud from a blue pool near the edge of Shark Bay, Australia. Blue pools are small bodies of water that are much more salty than seawater.…

At Camp Barneo, an ice camp near the North Pole, WHOI senior research specialist Rick Krishfield “talks” to an Ice-Tethered Profiler, to ensure that it’s functioning properly before leaving it…

R/V Knorr recently visited the Faroe Islands (in background) at the tail-end of a month-long cruise to investigate the origins of a newly discovered current flowing south through the Denmark…

Jim Valdes holds a float that was deployed on a recent sampling mission to Line W across the Gulf Stream and Deep Western Boundary Current. The float contains the ashes…

U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) listens while Vice President for Marine Operations, Rob Munier (right) explains the depth and breadth of WHOI’s involvement in response to the Deep Water Horizon…

In May, a panel of nearly 150 leaders of large research infrastructure programs visited WHOI for the Annual Review Meeting of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). On Sept. 17 in…

Invasive sea squirts establish themselves in tidal areas, crowd out native species in their path, and pose a threat to protected species of eelgrass. WHOI biologist Mary Carman (at right) explains…

William McLean, mate on the Sea Education Association’s SSV Corwith Cramer, teaches MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) students celestial navigation using a sextant during the annual Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Every year, admitted…