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WHOI research assistant Kate Morkeski and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mallory Ringham navigate a temporary causeway in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve during an exceptionally high “king tide.” […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sara Rosengard measures the amount of calcium in seawater samples using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS). The amount of calcium helps Rosengard […]

Summer Student Fellow Jen Reeve (left) and WHOI marine chemist Amanda Spivak collect sediment samples from an experiment in Spivak’s flow-through seawater system (the white tanks behind them). […]

In May 2012, WHOI convened a Morss Colloquium to examine the issue of Earth’s water cycle. Afterwards, a panel that included (left to right) Anthony Patt, International Institute […]

Chemist Mak Saito and colleagues recently reported that a marine bacterium recycles and reuses a scarce nutrient, iron. Crocosphaera watsonii disassembles iron-containing enzymes used by night and builds […]

Jill Van Tongeren (a graduate student at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory) stands, for scale, underneath stalactites and stalagmites of the mineral travertine, in Oman. Evelyn Mervine, […]

Today is World Oceans Day, a worldwide celebration of the ocean and the benefits it provides to everyone on our blue planet. It helps regulate our climate and our Read More

Most of the surface of Earth is covered by ocean, so it follows that most of the rain falling on the planet falls on the ocean. That rain, in turn, […]

WHOI senior engineering assistant Ben Pietro oversees a deployment of yellow “hardhats” on the R/V Revelle during a 2016 expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, where some of the highest […]

New research on the global water cycle by WHOI scientists Laifang Li, Ray Schmitt, and Caroline Ummenhofer have found links between saltier regions in the Atlantic […]

Viewed from outer space, Earth has been called the Blue Planet. But if you could pull all the water in the ocean, the atmosphere, groundwater and surface water […]

When an o-ring failed during a research cruise on R/V Knorr in October, WHOI engineer Ken Decoteau found himself assembling a new wiring harness to keep the data flowing. The […]

Just because it’s known as a research “cruise” doesn’t mean life is easy for the scientists, engineers and students on board. During a recent, month-long expedition on R/V Knorr, […]

University of Connecticut scientist Jim Edson (left) and WHOI technician Steve Faluotico install an instrument on a buoy prior to a cruise to the saltiest spot in the North […]

A mooring anchor entered the North Atlantic in dramatic fashion last week from the stern of R/V Knorr. The mooring is part of the SPURS (Salinity Processes in the […]

On June 8, we join the international community in celebrating World Oceans Day. The ocean is vast (more than two-thirds of Earth’s surface is covered by ocean), deep (it […]

WHOI Senior Scientist Raymond Schmitt has been elected a 2012 fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), one of 61 new fellows who are being recognized by AGU […]