Multimedia
Blast from the Past
A section of beech tree that stood on the WHOI campus in Woods Hole for nearly 150 years is ready to be sampled by technicians at the National Ocean Sciences…
Read MoreSensing Carbon Flux
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sophie Chu (left) and research assistant Kate Morkeski, who work with chemist Aleck Wang, prepare to deploy a Channelized Optical System (CHANOS) sensor in the Sage…
Read MoreCanaries in the Antarctic
An Adélie penguin bends low to check on its eggs, which are snuggled into the warm skin and feathers between its legs. Adélies live for 15 to 20 years, and…
Read MorePut a Ring on it
WHOI marine archaeologist Brendan Foley holds a gold ring he and his team recovered from the Anitkythera wreck site off the coast of Greece. The ring is similar to one recovered…
Read MoreProbing the Pathways
A buoy sits on the WHOI dock in preparation for an August 2016 expedition to the Irminger and Labrador Seas. The buoy, which will be attached to a sub-surface mooring,…
Read MorePredicting Precipitation
Physical oceanographers Laifang Li, Ray Schmitt, and Caroline Ummenhofer (left to right) look over an illustration depicting a recently discovered link between sea-surface salinity and rainfall in the Sahel, an impoverished region of…
Read MoreBriefing the Press
Andy Bowen, a WHOI principal engineer and director of the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF), provided details to the media on how WHOI-operated vehicles were used to help the National…
Read MoreStrong Arm Tactics
Bringing a 274-foot research vessel to rest is not for the faint-of-back. Pete Liarikos, bosun on R/V Neil Armstrong, lent a hand recently in helping secure R/V Atlantis to the WHOI pier…
Read MoreDoing the Honors
Dean and Vice President for Academic Programs Jim Yoder does the honors in dedicating a new dormitory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. The dorm contains 35 beds spread among 18 single…
Read MoreKeep Away
What looks like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway is actually something to strike fear in the heart of any fish swimming nearby. These are the…
Read MoreVisit Neil Armstrong
On June 25, the public is invited to see the nation’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, at the WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility in Woods Hole. Visitors will have an opportunity to…
Read MoreExperiments at Sea
Scientists sailing on R/V Atlantis as part of the NASA-NAAMES expedition will use these large plastic containers to incubate microscopic marine plants and the tiny animals that eat them. The plants, called phytoplankton and the zooplankton grazers that…
Read MoreWorld Oceans Day 2016
Today is World Oceans Day. The global ocean is one of the keys to life on Earth. It helps regulate our climate and our water supply, supplies oxygen to the atmosphere, provides…
Read MoreFair Winds
Rear Admiral Chris Sadler (left) and Viceadmirante Francisco Perez Rico complete the transfer of R/V Knorr (now the Rio Tecolutla) to the Mexican Navy. In its more than four decades at WHOI, Knorr took…
Read MoreScanning the Deep Earth
WHOI scientist Veronique LeRoux places a sample of porous lava into a Skyscan 1272 CT, an imaging system that creates three-dimensional views of physical samples that it scanns. LeRoux is a geologist whose…
Read MoreThe Way It Was
Circa 1966, two swimmers flank the pilot guiding the original DSV Alvin into its docking space in Lulu, the sub’s first tender ship. After its recent extensive overhaul and upgrade…
Read MoreFrom Corals to Climate Change
WHOI paleoclimatologist Konrad Hughen snapped this photo of a hermit crab during a 2015 expedition to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Hughen studies climate change by looking at…
Read MorePioneer Observers
Surface buoys stand outside the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems at WHOI, where they undergo testing before deployment at sea. These five Coastal Profiler Moorings and one Coastal…
Read MoreRepair Job
Assistant engineers Jean Lavache and Wayne Sylvia and oiler Roger Fong (left to right) overhaul a pump on R/V Neil Armstrong during its inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Wash., to the…
Read More1000 Degrees!
The first four graduate students to receive degrees from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program at the first commencement ceremonies in 1970 sit in the front row on either side of the…
Read MoreLaser Testing
In a collaborative project with researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SI0), a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with imaging LiDAR—a remote sensing technology that uses laser light—was…
Read MoreSuccessful Search
Television reporters interview Carl Kaiser, program manager for the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry at the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF), in early May on the deck of R/V Atlantis following…
Read MoreEyes Above
Galapagos swallow-tailed gulls soar above R/V Atlantis during a 2010 expedition near the Galapagos Islands. The unusual birds, the only fully nocturnal gulls and seabirds in the world, flocked around the…
Read MoreAlgae, Aerosols, and Climate
Researchers from the University of Rhode Island prepare the main lab of R/V Atlantis for a cruise to the North Atlantic, where a multi-institutional team will study Earth’s largest concentration…
Read More