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Scientists have long thought the majority of the ocean’s iron—a key biological nutrient—comes from atmospheric dust, with smaller inputs from terrestrial sediment and hydrothermal vent fluids. Although iron is soluble in…

R/V Neil Armstrong took a step closer to delivery recently when it began builder’s trials in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. The ship, shown here off Anacortes, Wash., with Mt.…

The storm surge from the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, which made landfall as a category 3 storm on Long Island battered the shore of Woods Hole, Mass. In addition…

A new grant from The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation will help WHOI fund a three-year collaboration with Cape Abilities—a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding good jobs for disabled…

Researchers got a breathtaking view from the bow of icebreaker Healy during the 2014 Arctic Spring expedition to the Chuchki Sea. Though the sun never fully set during the expedition, twilight…

In 2014 two expeditions organized by WHOI biologist Tim Shank‘s played a starring role in the HADES (Hadal Ecosystem Studies) project, a collaborative research program investigating the role that environmental factors…

NSF Director France Córdova (second from left) and former Ocean Sciences Division Director Debbie Bronk (middle) visited WHOI in September of 2014. While here, they managed a rare photo op…

Archivist Dave Sherman works in the WHOI Data Library, where a diverse collection of scientists’ personal papers, oral histories, visuals, publications, and other documents are housed. The archives—part of the…

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield looked into clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large harbor in Barnstable,…

In 1946, some 40 WHOI staff participated in work to study the effects of a nuclear blast and subsequent radiation on the ocean and marine life. From left, Arnold Clarke, Ruthann…

Rigorous discussion and free exchange of ideas were hallmarks of Henry Stommel‘s intellectual style. Here, the renown physical oceanograher engages in one such discussion with George Veronis, of Yale University.…

Ed “Catfish” Popowitz, bosun of R/V Atlantis stood on the bow of the ship as it sailed through the Straits of Magellan and passed the wreck of the Captain Leonidas. The Leonidas ran aground while…

Bill Schevill, right, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics after World War II, but when Bill Watkins, left, joined him in Woods Hole in 1958, they began what former…

This January, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Isabela Le Bras became a teacher at a residential course in Ensenada, Mexico, through the organization Clubes de Ciencia, which pairs young U.S. and…

Fish swim amid this vibrant community of tubeworms around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near the East Pacific Rise. The fish are zoarcids—predators that eat tubeworms, crabs, and other animals living…

Benjamin Birner, a 2013 WHOI Summer Student Fellow prepares sediment samples in the NIRVANA clean room at WHOI. Birner measured the sediments radiogenic isotopic composition in hopes of identifying how certain…

This heady view of the Chuchki Sea comes from aboard the US Coast Guard cutter Healy, which hosted scientists aboard the Arctic Spring research cruise in 2014. Among other science…

Long-time WHOI Board chairman Noel McLean spoke during the 1980 Associates Dinner dedication of the laboratory building named after him that was built to house geoscience laboratories along with a…