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When one of the big ships is in port during heavy weather, they get all the best points on the dock to tie off. Standard practice calls for two bow…

When scientists leave instruments in the ocean to do long-term measurements, they need a way to keep their gear afloat. One way to keep them from sinking is to use…

An autonomous underwater glider, is recovered to the R/V Knorr. The glider, preprogrammed with navigation waypoints before deployment, maneuvers through the ocean without an external propulsion system, traversing the upper…

In August, scientists and engineers began moving into the new 26,000-square-foot Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems building on WHOI’s Quisset campus. The facility contains lab and office spaces for…

A Subsurface Mooring Operations crew on a cruise to Line W recovers a buoy that collected data for the Access to the Sea program. Named in memory of Val Worthington,…

This year marked the tenth year of the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project led by WHOI physical oceanographer Andrey Proshutinsky and Richard Krishfield. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Fisheries and…

Oceanographers also occasionally turn their attention to smaller bodies of water. Here, WHOI’s Will Ostrom (right) works on a mooring line on Flathead Lake, Montana. The mooring is one of…

Scientists have long thought that new ocean crust was only formed at spreading centers, where tectonic plates separate and allow magma to emerge from below. WHOI geophysicist Dan Lizarralde recently…

Data from a Nortek DW Aquadopp current monitor is downloaded and analyzed after the instrument spent two years in the Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland, where important subsurface currents cross…

A polar bear tried (and failed) to scramble onto a too-small ice floe in the Denmark Strait in August 2012 during a cruise led by WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart.…

Research vessel Knorr passes through a manmade channel out of St. George’s in Bermuda during a March 2007 expedition to the Northwest Atlantic deep boundary current, lead by WHOI physical…

Bob Tavares, manager of the WHOI Float Lab, prepares SOLO II floats for an ARGO research mission to explore the structure of currents in the South Atlantic. Each float will…

Two red-hulled icebreakers, the Laurence M. Gould (foreground) and the larger Nathaniel B. Palmer, both frequently used by WHOI researchers, docked in Chile between expeditions in spring 2011. WHOI researcher…

Engineer George Tupper began designing, building, and maintaining oceanographic instruments in the 1970s, including these current meters on display at WHOI. During his career spent two to three months each year…

This summer, 32 students from 30 colleges and universities traveled to Cape Cod from the around the United States and four other countries to participate in WHOI’s Summer Student Fellowship.…

In September, WHOI took delivery of a very special piece of equipment—a redesigned titanium frame for the submersible Alvin. In December 2010, after Alvin was pulled from service, it returned…

WHOI President and Director Susan Avery joined Willie May, Associate Director for Laboratory Programs and Principal Deputy at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in the traditional ribbon-cutting ceremony…

Brown University graduate student Jess Rodysill, guest student Lance Croft, and WHOI researcher Richard Sullivan (left to right) set up an aeolian (wind-blown) sediment trap this summer on Florida’s Santa…