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WHOI researcher Cindy Sellers (right) shows undergraduate students how to analyze seawater they had just sampled aboard WHOI’s research vessel Tioga in 2017. The students were part of the […]

Groundbreaking oceanographer Henry Stommel first came to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the 1944, less than 15 years after the Oceanographic’s founding. He remained affiliated with WHOI for much […]

A CTD instrument is a standard workhorse of oceanography, measuring conductivity (salinity), temperature, and depth as it descends through the water. But this CTD has a special “passenger” attached […]

A very special guest visited the research vessel Atlantis during a port call in San Diego in December. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Walter Munk (seated) received a […]

WHOI coral reef ecologist Amy Apprill tends to a hydrophone setup used as part of an experiment in the U.S. Virgin Islands to study how free-swimming coral larvae […]

A CTD—a device that measure the conductivity, temperature and depth of seawater—descends through the water of glacial fjord in Greenland. Data from the instrument will help a team led […]

Emperor Hirohito of Japan (seated, center) prepared to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist and current scientist emeritus Susumu Honjo (standing, left) during a visit […]

In 1972, research technician Asa Wing sewed yards of fine-mesh material into a giant, conical sampling net for WHOI biologist Richard Backus, The Falmouth Armory building provided the only […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Matthew Osman (left) and U.S. Ice Drilling Program driller Mike Waszkiewicz move an ice core barrel into place during a storm in West Greenland. Osman […]

In January 1980, the human-occupied submersible Alvin made its 1,000th dive to the seafloor during an expedition to the Galapagos Rift. In November 2018, Alvin made its 5,000th […]

As part of his Semester at WHOI (SAW) working with WHOI scientist Joel Llopiz’s lab, Matt Stefanak, a senior at Middlebury College, collected fish larvae in St. John, […]

The morning after the human-occupied submersible Alvin made its historic 5,000th dive, it made it’s 5,001st and continued its 50-plus years of scientific research and exploration of the deep […]

Like different human social groups, short-finned pilot whales living off the coast of Hawai’i have their own sorts of vocal dialects, according to a new study by WHOI researchers. […]

Giant clams of the Tridacna genus have muscular mantles whose tissue can come in splendid colors, such as this bright blue. Eight species of Tridacna, most threatened by overharvesting, live […]

Sound carries messages in the watery medium of the ocean. To listen in, scientists use underwater microphones, or hydrophones, to record calls from whales or sound waves from airguns […]

Shortly after a WHOI-French-led expedition found the wreck of Titanic on the seafloor in 1985, the Navy commissioned a return mission to test a small remotely operated vehicle […]