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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…

WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson (center), MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Stephan Gallagher (right), and MIT undergraduate Elisabeth Boles examine a sample of seawater full of tiny plants and animals known as…

WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn prepares instruments during a recent cruise to the Irminger Sea south of Greenland. The instruments have sensors to take a wide range of measurements in the…

WHOI senior scientist Amala Mahadevan delivers the keynote address at the 4th annual Society of Women in Marine Science symposium earlier this month. The theme of this year’s SWMS event…

WHOI faculty and students pose for a photo during an “Elements of Modern Oceanography” class field trip on the coastal research vessel Tioga. The course, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Anthony…

WHOI Biologist Mark Baumgartner recovers a robotic glider after it helped find several endangered North Atlantic right whales. The glider was equipped with a digital acoustic monitoring (DMON) instrument developed at…

WHOI scientists Scott Wankel and Adam Soule (on screen, right to left) recently participated in a public event at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York—from a ship in…

A group of profiler mooring buoys stands ready for loading onto the research vessel Neil Armstrong in advance of a cruise to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Pioneer Array. Once…