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WHOI researcher Phil Alatalo (far right) explains the operations of a standard oceanographic tool—the Niskin bottle—to undergraduate students in the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program aboard the research vessel…

The dense fog that blanketed Woods Hole for two days in late June finally cleared to blue summer skies, allowing MIT-WHOI Joint Program students to embark—two days late—on the Jake…

The human-occupied submersible Alvin surfaces from a mission to the seafloor in a photo taken circa 1967—three years after the sub was first built. Two crewmen known as “swimmers” assist…

2018 Summer Student Fellows Maya Chung (Harvard University) and David Brinkley (Amherst College) marvel at a jar of plankton collected from Buzzards Bay in mid-July. The samples were collected during…

Every six months, the imposing, sensor-laden moorings that make up the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array need to be “turned”—hauled out of the water and substituted with clean, repaired, and…

Jellyfish are known for their painful stings—but they can also serve as a source of artistic inspiration. Artist Christina Machinski painted this image of a clinging jellyfish, which in real…

Sea level in coastal areas can be affected by a number of factors: tides, winds, waves, and even barometric pressure. New research led by WHOI physical oceanographer Chris Piecuch suggests…

In 2013, a WHOI-led research team set sail for the Eastern Beaufort Sea. Their mission: to search for evidence of a huge, ancient, freshwater flood caused by the melting of…

More than 400 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students just beginning their oceanographic careers have found their bearings aboard the Jake Peirson Summer Cruise, which began in 1990 as a rich introduction…

The copepod pictured on this laptop screen is only a few millimeters long, but it appears much larger through the “eyes” of a new holographic camera system. WHOI biologist Peter…

Mara Freilich, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, is exploring where plankton thrives in the ocean. Her research area is the Mediterranean Sea, where less-salty, less-dense water from…

In the late 1940s, WHOI scientists helped document the impacts of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 during Operation Crossroads. To measure surge…

Emerson Hasbrouck, an engineering assistant with WHOI’s Upper-Ocean Processes Group, prepares a Stratus buoy for deployment in Valparaíso, Chile. The buoy holds instruments that measure air and sea surface temperatures,…

WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe (standing, far left) guides guest student Will Scott in casting a net into the test well on the WHOI pier, as physicist Andone Lavery (seated, left),…

Climate change is leading to diminishing sea ice near the Arctic coast, leaving more open water for winds to create more waves, which reach down and stir up sediments on…