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At WHOI, CSI stands for Computerized Scanning and Imaging Lab. The lab, which is a part of the Institution’s Marine Mammal Center, has a CT scanner dedicated to marine research…

After 36 years and 500 missions for WHOI, the research vessel R/V Oceanus will be changing home ports and oceans. The 177-foot vessel arrived at WHOI in November 1975. Since…

WHOI scientist Hanu Singh and former graduate student Sacha Wichers examine a photo mosaic of the wreck of RMS Titanic. The 866 individual photos that make up the mosaic were…

Look closely and you will see black and white eyes in these fish eggs. Mussels, snails, sponges, and other marine life commonly use cables and instruments left in the sea…

The research vessel Oceanus was greeted by its little sibling, Asterias, near Woods Hole. After its arrival in Woods Hole in November 1975, Oceanus proved to be a workhorse, with…

Somewhere during the 47-year life of the deep-submergence vehicle Alvin, someone found that padded boxing gloves did a perfect job of protecting the submerisble’s manipulator arms while it sat on…

A REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle dove through the clear, blue waters of the Mediterranean in September 2011 on a mission to find and survey Bronze Age shipwrecks off the…

During a 2011 Dive & Discover cruise in the Mediterranean, scientists from WHOI and other institutions explored three super-salty “lakes” called DHABs at the bottom of the sea. They used…

With a storm approaching, a team worked “in the washing machine” of a raging surf zone at the Field Research Facility in Duck, N.C. in 2011 to recover instruments measuring…

FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) is a powerful technique in which a fluorescent tag is attached to an RNA fragment that in turn binds to specific kinds of cells. This…

A sediment sample in a push core taken from the upper reaches of a deep, hypersaline, anoxic basin (DHAB) hints at a complex history for the 3,000 to 35,000 year-old…

Ben Tradd, a pilot with the Jason operations group, takes in the sunset aboard the R/V Atlantis following days of heavy rain, high winds and rough seas in October 2011.…

The video plankton recorder, shown on deck at right, resembles a small airplane. In fact, it does fly—in the water. In August 2011, the German research vessel Maria S. Merian…

A photo taken by a camera on the remotely operated vehicle Jason reveals the weird, murky world of Urania Basin, an anoxic, super-salty “lake” 3.5 kilometers deep in the eastern…

In the 1950s and 60s it was rare to see four WHOI-operated ships docked at the same time in Woods Hole, their home port. The vessels, normally ranging around the…