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This patch of clams, bacteria, and tubeworms was photographed on the ocean bottom in the Gulf of California, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart, further separating the…

Domitilo Nájera Navarrete stands ready to deploy a RAFOS float from the research vessel Pelican in the Gulf of Mexico. The glass-tubed floats sink to a specific depth and are…

Former WHOI engineer and founder of Teledyne Webb Research Doug Webb (right) chats with Center for Marine Robotics Director Jim Bellingham in front of a wall of Webb’s inventions: Slocum…

WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder (middle) presented a rare deep-sea fish—called chimaera—to Japan’s Crown Prince Akihito during a visit to WHOI back in 1953 as WHOI Director Admiral Smith (left) looked…

During a 2012 expedition to make detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as SeaBED, researchers on board the Australian icebreaker RSV Aurora…

Representatives from WHOI and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) met recently in Woods Hole to renew a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions in support of the MBLWHOI Library.…

Sixth-graders from Morse Pond Middle School in Falmouth, Mass., test a remotely operated vehicle they built in a test tank in WHOI’s Smith Laboratory. It was part of a summer…

This photo of a Dumbo octopus, more than a mile down on the seafloor, graces the month of March in the 2018 WHOI Wall Calendar, now available for purchase at…

WHOI researcher and engineer Alex Bocconcelli searched for endangered blue whales off southern Chile earlier this year. Bocconcelli led a team that used temporary suction-cup tags equipped with sensors to track whales’ diving…

WHOI’s two campuses are a blend of new, sophisticated science laboratories and quaint, old houses and estates that still retain signs of their previous owners. Outside the Carriage House, which…

A fog bow, caused by light refracted through small water droplets in fog, arcs below the Air-Sea Interaction Tower in Martha’s Vineyard Sound. The tower, a part of the Martha’s…

Woods Hole Sea Grant Extension Agents Joshua Reitsma and Abigail Archer help distribute bags of shell that contain oyster seed (spat) to towns for municipal shellfish propagation programs. The Woods…

A radar view from the cockpit of a U.S. Air Force “Hurricane Hunter” (small white airplane icon) shows the eye of Hurricane Irma as the plane flies into the storm…

Elizabeth (“Betty”) Bunce waits for a sediment core to come up from the seafloor aboard the research vessel Chain circa 1958. Bunce (1915-2003) was a pioneering woman oceanographer. A geophysicist interested…

At sea, traditions that speak of home and loved ones take on greater meaning. In 1952, Capt. John Pike carved a Thanksgiving turkey in the wardroom aboard the research vessel…