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MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Stevens leaps over a stream of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Stevens was part of team (including WHOI scientists Sara Das, Mark Behn, and Jeff…

Henry Bigelow (left) and Columbus Iselin—the founder and second director of WHOI, respectively—stand on the deck of the Institution’s first research vessel, Atlantis. Iselin was a student of Bigelow’s at the…

WHOI 2015 Summer Student Fellows Jerry Fontus (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julia Lanoue (Brown University) learned how to deploy a water sampling CTD rosette off the fantail of R/V…

R/V Atlantis (left) and R/V Neil Armstrong recently came out of drydock at Detyen’s Shipyards in Charleston, S.C. Atlantis was in for scheduled maintenance, while Neil Armstrong had the remainder of its science gear installed after sailing from Anacortes, Wash.,…

This photo of Elizabeth Bigelow, wife of founding director of WHOI Henry Bigelow, was taken more than 60 years ago. The Bigelows were wed in 1906, a marriage that Henry…

Engineer Loral O’Hara designed new racks to carry equipment on the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. The racks hold pressure housings—the titanium bottles that house the electronics…

Speaking at WHOI in December 2014, Pamela Goldberg, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), had high praise for WHOI’s Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) and its potential to spur…

Over the course of nearly six decades at WHOI, Hartley Hoskins has been an integral part of the Institution’s fabric. He sailed on R/V Oceanus when the ship was delivered to…

The heading blocks that tell watchstanders on R/V Neil Armstrong the direction the ship is supposed to be traveling share a console with the slightly higher tech dynamic positioning control.…

WHOI machinist Timothy Kling cuts titanium into a component for the frame of the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. He is using a water jet, which directs…

A clam rake is the instrument of choice for MIT-WHOI joint program student Megan May as she hunts for clams at Little Island Beach in Falmouth. May is using genetic…

Derek Bergeron, relief chief mate for R/V Neil Armstrong, helped change wires while testing the main traction winch during the ship’s inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Washington to San Francisco in November. The…

Entanglement in fishing gear is the leading cause of death for endangered North Atlantic right whales. When whales become tangled in fishing gear, such as buoys, and lobster and crab…

WHOI research specialist Frank Bahr (left) and physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz analyze data on currents collected off Cape Hatteras. Gawarkiewicz studies the currents along and across the continental shelf. Gawarkiewicz,…

WHOI friends and supporters aboard the R/V Neil Armstrong during the ship’s 2015 inaugural trip, watched as the ship entered the Panama Canal. A part of the U.S. academic research fleet, R/V Neil Armstrong…

John Kemp of the WHOI Mooring Operations, Engineering and Field Support Group is lowered in a crane-operated basket from the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St. Laurent in 2015…

Biofouling can be a serious problem for oceanographic equipment that spends any amount of time at the surface or in the upper ocean and was one of the reasons this…