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WHOI biologist Rebecca Gast steadies a coring tube as Bill Boyd, a senior engineer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, drives it into the sand at Duck, North Carolina, while WHOI…

To call his mate, a male Adélie penguin uses a tried-and-true formula: flap flippers, tilt head to sky, then cut loose with a braying screech of a love song. It’s called…

Mike Dempsey (left) of the Canadian Institute of Ocean Sciences and MIT/WHOI Joint Program student David Griffith recover a pump used to collect samples during a 2008 expedition 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 averages…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program (JP) student Chris Murphy tests an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed and built by Chris and others in Hanu Singh’s lab. JP students are an important part…

Scientists dug pits up to 10 feet deep in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to expose layers of ice that are laid down snowfall by snowfall, year after year. The…

Every year, undergraduates come to WHOI for the Summer Student Fellowship Program to gain first-hand experience in ocean science. The students, mentored by WHOI scientists, spend the summer attending science…

In 2009, when WHOI Senior Scientist Chris German wanted to look for some of the deepest black smoker chimineys and hydrothermal vents on Earth, he turned to the hybrid remotely operated…

A culture flask containing marine microorganisms could be the source of new treatments for cystic fibrosis, thanks to work recently begun by WHOI microbiologist Tracy Mincer and the Flatley Discovery…

After cutting samples of basalt rock dredged from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge for scientific analyses, geochemist Cedric Hamelin from the University of Bergen in Norway used some leftovers to create an homage…

Researchers aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St. Laurent recover a mooring during a 2008 expedition to measure levels of carbon in the Arctic Ocean. The resulting study…

Does sand moving on the beach carry bacteria with it? To find out, WHOI scientists Rebecca Gast, Britt Raubenheimer, and Steve Elgar cored three sections of a beach at Duck,…

Round and round goes carbon around our planet. At the same time, figuratively, carbon makes the world go ’round. The element is the building block of life on Earth and,…

The storm clouds looming behind the first environmental sample processor (ESP) as it arrived at the WHOI dock in June of 2011 spelled trouble. At sea, the instrument samples seawater,…

When sculptor Cornelia Kubler Kavanagh showed photographs of her work to WHOI biological oceanographer Gareth Lawson, the scientist immediately recognized her subject as pteropods. Thus was born a unique collaboration…

WHOI’s Board and Corporation have made significant contributions to the Institution’s work since its founding in 1930. New York estate and trust lawyer Lawrason Riggs Jr. (left) was treasurer the Marine…