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Inside the dark Jason control room, video screens display real-time images of the seafloor sent from the vehicle’s high-definition cameras to a pilot (foreground) who controls the vehicle with a joystick.…

Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Santiago Herrera collects tissue samples from a shrimp, one of many crustacean species collected during this May 2014 cruise to explore the Kermadec Trench near New…

Data from a ship traveling the “Oleander Line” between New York and Bermuda and from buoys revealed unusually high ocean temperatures (red) in spring and summer of 2012 along the…

The 105-meter R/V Yokosuka carrying the Shinkai 6500 submersible and operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) visited WHOI in 1994 after a joint expedition with…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program alumnus and MIT professor Franz Hover stands in his Marine Robotics Lab surrounded several autonomous vehicles used by his current Joint Program students: Brooks Reed, Pedro Teixeira,…

The past year marked the christening of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, shown here just after it was launched in March. The coming year is expected to see the…

Columbia University student Maya Becker, a 2014 WHOI Summer Student Fellow, and WHOI instructors prepare a Niskin water sampler, on a boat trip the fellows took to learn about basic oceanographic…

Scientists and crew aboard the research vessel Knorr deployed a sediment net trap on a 2012 cruise in the North Atlantic to collect particles sinking from the sea surface. The…

Sound generators sit on R/V Knorr‘s deck, heading to the subpolar Atlantic in summer 2014. A group of scientists involved in the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program, including…

Lily Helfrich, a student at Northwestern University and a native of Falmouth, Mass., came back to Woods Hole for the 2014 WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program. On the annual student…

Preservation bags and vials sit ready for samples on a lab bench during a 2014 cruise aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. Biologists on the cruise were looking at the…

R/V Knorr returned to Woods Hole on December 16 after its final cruise as a member of the U.S. oceanographic fleet to a group of holiday-themed well-wishers. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled…

Dan Chamberlain and Margaret DiGiorno, visiting students from Northeastern University working in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly, split a sediment core from Blackmore Pond, a coastal pond in…

Each year in mid-December the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers don their elf hats and jog through every buiding on WHOI’s two campuses, jingling bells and proclaiming holiday cheer to all…

Andy Bowen, director of the National Deep Submergence Facility at WHOI, right, showed off the Institution’s newest underwater vehicle, Nereid Under Ice, (NUI) to Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations. Greenert visited…

Dan Chamberlain, a visiting student from Northeastern University working in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, examines a coastal pond sediment core that he split in half to expose layers of mud and…

Carbon makes the world go around. It is the building block of life on Earth, and in the form of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, it has a powerful…