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Jean Whelan, Oceanographer Emeritis in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry department, remembers building this analytical equipment  as a technician in chemist John Hunt’s lab, about 1980. “A new technique had…

Putting scientific equipment into Arctic waters —such as this conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette — requires an intricate balance of motion and timing. The shipboard CTD is made up of a set…

A conceptual illustration of the next-generation research submersible: The WHOI-operated research submersible Alvin is a workhorse of deep sea science and exploration. Built in 1964, Alvin has made more than…

Post-doctoral Fellow Nicole Keller and associate scientist Alison Shaw, both of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI, pause during their hike to the Poas volcano in Costa Rica…

Bostwick (“Buck”) Ketchum (1912-1982) served WHOI for more than forty years, studying topics from ocean physics to biology, but focused much of his attention on the coastal zone and human…

As a 2009 WHOI Summer Student Fellow, Rose Kantor, (Carleton College) worked with adviser, marine chemist Tracy Mincer to study bacteria that communicate chemically, through a process called quorum sensing.…

WHOI biologist Judith McDowell measures respiration of lobster larvae in her lab in about 1986. Since the 1970s she has done landmark research on lobster biology and how contaminants affect…

In starkly beautiful surroundings, MIT-WHOI joint program students Maya Bhatia (center) and Alison Criscitiello (left), along with Matthew Evans (a scientist at Wheaton College) camped on the Greenland coast for…

Tito Collasius (standing), of the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department, gives Matt Rigney pointers on how to operate the HROV Nereus manipulator arm during a one-day workshop for local…

On January 20, 1961, in the midst of the Cold War, the bathyscaphe Trieste rolls down Pennsylvania Avenue in the Inauguration Day parade in Washington, D.C. The float celebrated the…

A Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit (REMUS) 6000 vehicle sits on the deck of a ship during a 2009 mission. Three REMUS 6000 vehicles, designed by the Ocean Systems Laboratory at…

In a WHOI chemistry laboratory in the mid-70s, researchers Helen Mikelas and Bruce Tripp extracted and concentrated organic contaminants from seawater, including PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls—toxic compounds used in industrial manufacturing,…

Bone-chilling temperatures, biting winds, and rapidly changing sea ice conditions make the Chukchi Sea off Point Barrow, Alaska, a particularly difficult place to work. And then there are the curious…

Elizabeth (“Betty”) Bunce waits for a sediment core to come up, aboard R/V Chain circa 1958. One of the first woman oceanographers, Bunce (1915-2003) was kind and loyal as well…

One reason geologists love Antarctica: the ice-free areas are frozen in time. There are no rainstorms, roots, worms, or gophers to disturb the landscape, and no leaves, grass, or wildflowers…

The Arctic, a crucial part of Earth’s ocean and atmospheric systems, is experiencing rapid warming, and WHOI scientists are studying the region and its interactions with the global ocean and…

A team from the Oceanographic Systems Lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) test a REMUS (Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS) 100 vehicle in a frozen pond in New Hampshire to…

In this 1960 photo, Mary Sears is surrounded by papers and biological samples in her Bigelow Laboratory office. Sears was the first recipient of the original Woman Pioneer in Oceanography…

The research vessel Knorr shown anchored off the port of Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) during an expedition in May 1992. R/V Knorr is probably best known as the…

The Electro-Optical-Mechanical (EOM) test buoy for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), stowed on the fantail of the R/V Connecticut, was deployed in January on a mooring in 152 meters of…