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Falmouth High School art teacher Jane Baker and WHOI biologist Becky Gast took 52 art and English students to Provincetown this fall to do what generations of artists and writers…

Alvinella pompejana is named after the submersible Alvin and the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a volcano. Also known as the Pompeii worm, it can withstand the hottest temperatures of any…

Common marine algae naturally produce chemicals that might be of use to humans. In 2002, Greg O’Neil (right) worked as a summer research student with WHOI chemist Chris Reddy (left)…

Jim Broda (left) stands on the fantail of the research vessel Knorr just prior to the ship’s last science cruise as research assistant Al Gagnon tests the “manbasket” work platform…

WHOI electronics technician Casey Agee helped load a set of isobaric gas-tight samplers (IGTs) onto a platform in the front of the remotely operated vehicle Jason during a 2014 expedition to the East Pacific Rise.…

WHOI scientist Yogesh Girdhar is working to endow underwater robots with an ability that is particularly human: curiosity. Specifically, he is writing algorithms that will allow robots to distinguish interesting…

In 2013, WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler went to Japan, where he collected samples of groundwater and beach sands as part of his and chemist Matt Charette’s work tracking the spread…

WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara installs a new shroud over one of the maneuvering thrusters on the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) remotely operated vehicle. NUI is connected to pilots aboard a…

In the depths of winter, it’s nice to remember when undergraduates from around the world come to Woods Hole for a summer of science by the sea. Students learn about…

WHOI engineer Brian Guest took this photo of icebergs at at Rothera Station, Antarctica in the summer of 2014. Guest was part of a team of scientists and technicians on…

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin served as WHOI’s second director from 1940 to 1950 and following founding director Henry Bigelow. Iselin was Bigelow’s student at Harvard and originally came to WHOI at the…

In November 2014, researchers used Alvin to position and test a deep-sea instrument called Vent-SID for the first time at a hydrothermal vent site on the East Pacific Rise. It was the latest…

This global surface mooring was deployed in September 2014 in the Irminger Sea as part of the Global Arrays component of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative. The mooring is designed…

WHOI post-docs Liz Harvey and Tristan Horner got up close with a giant green anemone (A. xanthogrammica) at the Seattle Aquarium, when they participated in an NSF-sponsored National Network for Ocean and…

A group of WHOI Summer Student Fellows gathered for a photo during the 2014 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco in December. Each of the students presented a…