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WHOI chemist Chris Reddy describes his work on the November 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill, which occurred when the M/V Cosco Busan struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and…

During the week of May 3, 2010, a pair of osprey settled onto the nest on the WHOI Quissett campus, allaying fears that the nest would go unoccupied this year.…

Crustaceans come in all sizes. At the top of the scale are crabs with foot-long legs and tasty lobsters. Down near the bottom are copepods — critters the size of…

Rob Munier was named the newest vice president for Marine Operations and Facilities at WHOI on March 1. He has spent more than 500 days at sea during a 30-year…

John (Chip) Breier (left) and Carly Strasser recover a plankton pump mooring and a new particulate sampler, the Suspended Particulate Rosette Sampler (SUPR), which Breier developed with funding from the…

Wu-Jung Lee, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, adjusts the apparatus that allows her to record sonar echoes from a squid at different orientations. She is trying to…

During the 2010 Cambridge Science Festival, kids of all ages took a try at navigating a remote-controlled submarine around a mock hydrothermal vent at the ocean floor while learning about…

Kris Newhall and Jeff Pietro of the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department with the latest ice-tethered profiler (ITP), which was deployed April 20, 2010, from their ice camp located…

James E. Cloern, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, received the 15th B.H. Ketchum Award April 28 from WHOI President and Director Susan K. Avery. The WHOI…

Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray (center) recently visited WHOI’s Rinehart Coastal Research Laboratory and heard about work supported by the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, through the John Adams Innovation Institute for…

In the late 1980s, Noellette Conway Schempf, Joint Program graduate and current WHOI Corporation Member, used a chromatograph to analyze amino acids from shallow-water clams (Solemya velum) that harbor symbiotic…

Pressure ridges form when ice floes break up and are pressed back together, similar to the way that mountain ranges form when two continents bump together. These ridges are located…

A group of graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program get ready to set sail on the (SSV) Corwith Cramer for the 2009 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Each year students…

Al Plueddemann and Kris Newhall recover the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) REMUS 100 from an ice hole in Barrow, Alaska. The WHOI research team, led by Plueddemann and Amy Kukulya,…

Casey Machado, of the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering department, holds a model of the Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle Nereus. The model —a 1/14th scale replica of the deep-diving vehicle—…

En-route to Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States, researchers from WHOI pass over the remote, rugged terrain of the Arctic Circle. The WHOI research team, led by…

WHOI geophysics guest student Tingting Wang and senior scientist Jian Lin (right) study Haiti earthquake data on charts. Lin has studied Haiti and other tectonic areas of the Caribbean and…