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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…

The ocean has two kinds of microbes: Autotrophs use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide into organic carbon, while heterotrophs convert organic carbon such as glucose into nutrients. Scientists are developing new tools…

A work crew fits the boom to R/V Atlantis‘ new mizzen mast in this undated photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis was the first ship operated by…

Crewmember Daryl Tobin from the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent secures a line on a mooring that had been tethered to the seafloor in the Arctic Ocean. The instrument…

Pilot Jefferson Grau discusses the submersible Alvin’s systems and capabilities with professor Diane Adams, of Rutgers University (left) and Professor Jen Glass of Georgia Tech (right). Alvin was in Woods…

During monsoons, the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers export 50 metric tons of carbon-containing sediments per day into the Bay of Bengal. WHOI scientists study rivers around the world to analyze…

Fifty-six years ago today, Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh made history by diving inside the U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to the deepest known spot in the ocean, the Challenger…

“Science is an adventure, not a career,” WHOI microbiologist Holger Jannasch (1927-1998) once said. Equally at home in the lab or at sea, Jannasch is remembered for making seminal discoveries…

WHOI scientists are known for the fact that many of them address some of the most immediate and pressing questions of our time. MIT-WHOI graduate student Adam Sarafian, however, is…

Two vessels in the U.S. academic research fleet, Atlantis (foreground) and Neil Armstrong, rest stern-to-stern in dry dock in Charleston, S.C. The two ships, both operated by WHOI, were hauled out…

A Van Veen grab is lowered to the seafloor, where the two halves of the scoop will close, “grabbing” a large scoop of sediment and any organisms living in it.…