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Alvin is currently in Woods Hole undergoing maintenance work and so the Deep Submergence Science Committee (DESSC), which acts as an advisory group to the National Deep Submergence Facility operated…

WHOI students and scientists ascend the Inferno Cinder Cone during a field trip to a lava field in Craters of the Moon National Monument in central Idaho. The trip culminated…

After a two-and-a-half month journey from Miami, a Spray glider is recovered on the continental shelf southeast of Woods Hole in June 2015. By changing its buoyancy, the glider flies…

WHOI research specialist Heather Furey and technician Roald van der Heide from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research prepare a Slocum glider for deployment in the summer of 2015. As part…

Each September WHOI hosts a group science journalists from around the world in the Ocean Science Journalism (OSJ) Fellowship Program for a week of experience and information about the breadth…

Engineering assistant Molly Curran prepares attaches a thruster of the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle before dock tests at WHOI and a dive off the coast of…

WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott presented the 2015 Bostwick H. Ketchum Award to Candace Oviatt, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, during a lecture and…

While conducting a study on hydrogen generation in mantle rocks, WHOI associate scientist, Frieder Klein and his colleagues discovered the remains of fossilized microorganisms mummified in hydrothermal deposits. The microbes…

WHOI researchers and engineers deployed an X-Spar (expendable spar) buoy for sea trials in June 2015. Made of low-cost components like commercial plastic tubing and modified, commonplace sensors, X-Spar buoys…

The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry awaits recovery during the MESH (Mapping, Exploration, Sampling at Havre) research cruise in the spring of 2015. Capable of diving and surveying the seafloor at depths…

Following completion of successful acceptance trials, the nation’s newest research vessel, the Neil Armstrong, was officially turned over by the U.S. Navy on September 23, 2015, to WHOI, which will…

WHOI gets its share of visits from politicians and dignitaries over the course of the year, but few with this many titles on his CV. This summer, former Congressman, New…

During a recent visit, Vice Admiral Tom Rowden USN is briefed by senior engineer Peter Brickley about glider and Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) operations in the Coleman and Susan Burke…

WHOI recently celebrated a special anniversary on the Woods Hole campus—the 250th birthday of  Challenger House. The WHOI “Tunes at Noon” ensemble provided entertainment and Smitty’s Ice Cream provided the…

WHOI engineer Larry George keeps the top of an expendable spar buoy (X-Spar) away from the side of the ship during a test deployment this summer. The X-Spar is a…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sarah Rosengard converts organic carbon to carbon dioxide by slowly increasing its temperature from room temperature to 800°C (1,470°F) at WHOI’s National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS)…

Megan Behnke, a senior from St. Olaf College (left), and Lina Davidson, a junior from Barnard College got up close with the human-occupied submersible Alvin during its current maintenance period in Woods…