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Researching the Twilight Zone
Meet WHOI tech Helena McMonagle and learn how MOCNESS helps study twilight zone creatures during a 2019 OceanX expedition in the Bahamas.
Read MoreBreaking Ice: Science at the Top of the World
Embark on an Arctic journey with WHOI scientists and engineers aboard icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent as they collect data on the Beaufort Gyre.
Read MoreImproving lives in East Africa through shellfish aquaculture
Shellfish farming in Zanzibar offers vital nutrition and income. WHOI supports training and hatchery growth to expand sustainable aquaculture in East Africa.
Read MoreFearsome Phronima
The fearsome phronima, a plankton species out of a monster movie riding inside the body of a salp. (Image by Paul Caiger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreMesobot: Following life in the Twilight Zone
Mesobot explores the ocean’s twilight zone, tracking deep-sea creatures to help us understand and protect this mysterious, threatened world.
Read More360 Video: Departing Woods Hole
Watch in virtual reality as RV Thomas G. Thompson departs the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution dock in July 2019.
Read More360 Video: Deploying the VPR from the A-frame
The crew of RV Thomas G. Thompson deploys a video plankton recorder (VPR) in July 2019.
Read MoreFuture Researchers
At the Woods Hole Science Stroll budding researchers shared their ideas for the future of ocean exploration. (Photo by A. Brown, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreEngineering the future
Created by WHOI engineer Anna Michel, the GOES (Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science) Institute, hosts girls going into sixth grade for a week of engineering activities
Read MorePelagic octopus
Argonauts like this pelagic octopus, found in the ocean twilight zone, are rarely found in the wild. Only the females like this lovely lady are able to create a shell.…
Read MoreJetYak
Autonomous vehicles explore places too dangerous for humans. Here, JetYak embarks on a survey mission along the Sarqardliup glacier in Greenland. (Photo by by Fiamma Straneo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreMark Abbott interviewed for ocean podcast
WHOI President Mark Abbott talks with Dr. Greg Stone about how the institution is tackling today’s urgent climate challenges.
Read MoreThe legacy continues with R/V Neil Armstrong
Meet R/V Neil Armstrong.
Read MoreStars and Stripes
A golden feather star raises its arms to feed. Behind, brittle stars are perched across the boulder-field. (Photo courtesy of J. R. Aronson)
Read MoreKnee-Deep
WHOI engineer Chris Basque deploys instruments for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Global Array as waves crash board the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer. The array is laden with instruments which remain at…
Read MoreSitting atop a legend
HOV Alvin pilot Valentine Wilson sits atop the research submarine in 1966, shown here in its first incarnation. After Wilson came back from a trip to the Bahamas sporting a…
Read MoreR/V Armstrong in Southern Greenland
During a recent transit through the Prince Christian Sound in southern Greenland, the crew of the research vessel Neil Armstrong took advantage of calm conditions during an otherwise storm-tossed spring…
Read MorePotato chips of the sea
Sometimes referred to as the potato chips of the sea, two pteropods (Diacria trispinosa) move through the Ocean Twilight Zone in search of food. Photo by Paul Caiger, Woods Hole…
Read MoreMacroscopic Life
They look like space stations, but actually are colonial forms of single-celled organisms called radiolarians, collected in the deep Celebes Sea in the Philippines. The white blobs are individual cells,…
Read MoreBeads that Sting
These may look like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway, but they are actually Man-o’-War tentacles that can inject toxins into any creature unlucky enough to…
Read MoreNature Imitating Art
From the underside, the jellyfish Atolla, looks more like a chandelier than an animal. Atolla are abundant the world over in the Ocean Twilight Zone and shallower depths. When touched or disturbed,…
Read MoreFeatured Image: WHOI at TED2019
WHOI engineer Andy Bowen talks with a reporter at the recent TED2019 Conference in Vancouver about the ocean’s critical role in the health of our planet and how technology is…
Read MoreThe Krill Crate
Scientists from WHOI and the University of Oregon transport a tank of juvenile krill (gray square box on small boat) to Palmer Station in Antarctica, where they will be analyzed…
Read MoreSplash in the Dark
The human-occupied submersible Alvin isn’t often recovered after dark—usually it’s on deck in time for dinner, even though the sub holds enough oxygen, food, and water for the pilot and…
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