Dr. Phadtaya Poemnamthip celebrates a successful thesis defense along with fellow MIT/WHOI joint program students, chair of the defense, members of the thesis committee, friends and family. Dr. Poemnamthip’s doctoral…

Svenja Ryan and Caroline Ummenhofer at a joint public talk with artist Deb Ehrens at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod on April 11, 2026, for programming for their exhibit “Ocean Fever” that…

On April 9, Dr. Weiguang (Roger) Wu celebrated his successful thesis defense—Vertical Transport at Curved Ocean Fronts—with his advisor, Amala Mahadevan, along with fellow MIT/WHOI joint program students, friends, and…

On January 6, Dr. Theo Carr celebrated his successful thesis defense—Implications of seasonality and asymmetry for ENSO’s predictability, impacts, and future changes—with his advisor, Caroline Ummenhofer, along with fellow MIT/WHOI…

PO’s own Glen Gawarkeiwicz presented a special Buoy Lunch talk, Disappearances and Fortunes of the Sea…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Brynn Hamilton and Margaret Gregory in front of the schoolhouse on Penikese Island. The lesson was an introduction to density, buoyancy and mixing. MIT/WHOI Joint Program…

WHOI PO postdoc Ali Exley and URI/SGO grad student Lindsay Grose at EGU25. Photo provided by Magdalena Andres.

The Buoy Lunch is a seminar hosted by the PO Department every month featuring different topics of interest to its members. April’s Buoy Lunch was called Administration Station, and it…

WHOI guest investigator Stefanie Semper enjoys sunrise off of Jan Mayen Island on the R/V Armstrong…

The Neil Armstrong, cruise AR8401, left Woods Hole on June 2 and arrived in Reykjavik on July 2, 2024.  This is a bi-annual joint OOI-Irminger OSNAP-GDWBC cruise. Senior Research Specialist…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program students watch dolphins swimming in the bow wave while the R/V Roger Revelle was working in the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras. Photo provided by Glen Gawarkiewicz.

PO Joint Program students, postdocs, and scientific staff attended the 2024 EGU Meeting in Vienna, Austria, this week to share project results with the international research community. Pictured (left to…

Sunset behind osprey nest in Megansett Harbor.  Photo by Glen Gawarkiewicz.

In November 2023, a team of 20 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students steamed out on R/V Neil Armstrong for a 50h introductory research cruise. For many of them, this was the…

Assistant Scientist Svenja Ryan and Postdoctoral Investigators Giovanni Dematteis and Christoph Renkl pose at the finish of Falmouth in the Fall, a 7.2 mile race along Woods Hole and Falmouth’s…

PO’s own Glen Gawarkeiwicz presents Sea Monsters from Classical Times through the Age of Exploration” as a special Halloween Treat!

An afternoon on the RV Sally Ride:  Brian Hogue (foreground, steadying the instrument) from the FIXIT Lab and Austin Liou from the Upper Ocean Processes Group (background, running the A-frame)…

PO scientists Svenja Ryan (left) and Caroline Ummenhofer (right) pose with artist Deb Ehrens (middle) in front of kinetic 3D sculptures representing marine heatwaves…

Andy Davies, ResTech Josh Manger, and graduate student Lois Baker (Imperial College, UK) on the back deck of the R/V Revelle (RR2303 April-May 2023) deploying a sound source mooring in the early dawn hours…

Sea ice around Woods Hole formed during the Arctic blast of February 3rd and 4th…