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From a helicopter, deep meltwater channels on Greenland’s massive ice sheet become visible. Lakes form on the ice each summer as the sun returns. As lakes fill, the channels overflow and become…

Biogeochemist Karen Casciotti is working to understand how microorganisms affect the exchange of excess nutrients (principally nitrate) between groundwater and the coastal ocean. Casciotti and colleagues are using microbiological, molecular,…

The research vessel Knorr, carrying WHOI scientists and international researchers, was several days into a month-long voyage to study the Irminger Sea when it smacked into an intense Atlantic storm.…

Many kinds of gelatinous and transparent “jellies” inhabit the oceans, and some even eat other jellies. On the left—biting off more than it can chew—is Lampea pancerina, a species of…

The original personnel sphere of the Alvin submersible is shaped from a steel plate in 1964 at Lukens Steel Co., in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The sphere was used until 1973, when…

Engineers and crew members load the surface buoy of a Northwest Tropical Atlantic Station (NTAS) onto the research vessel Oceanus in July 2008. Funded through the Cooperative Institute for Climate…

Sarah Das and Mark Behn, researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, work on Greenland’s ice sheet. To get there, they pass through Ilulissat, a coastal village north of the Arctic…

Research associate Alexi Shalapyonok (foreground), and plankton biologists Heidi Sosik and Rob Olson load the FlowCytobot onto the coastal boat Mytilus. Based on the principles of the biologist’s flow cytometer,…

WHOI postdoctoral fellow Nicole Keller (Geology & Geophysics) takes a break from hiking the Barva volcano in Costa Rica in June 2008 to surround herself with the monstrous leaf of…

Henry Stetson, an assistant curator of paleontology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, was among the earliest appointments to the WHOI staff.  As research associate in submarine geology, he designed…

Glassy, angular fragments of volcanic rock provided key evidence that volcanoes on the Arctic Ocean floor have exploded violently, defying the common assumption that there is too much pressure and…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution operates the U.S. Navy-owned Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin for the national oceanographic community. Alvin, built in 1964 as the world’s first deep-ocean submersible, has made more than…

Mark Johnson, an engineer at WHOI, holds the “D-tag” , a non-invasive temporary tag he designed that attaches to a whale and records ambient sounds and the whale’s motions as…

WHOI oceanographer emeritus George Hampson (white t-shirt, in the background) shows undergraduate students in the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship Program how to identify local jellyfish species, as they peer over…

2008 marks the 40th year of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanograhy/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, one of the world’s premier marine science graduate programs. To mark the anniversary, WHOI…

Every year, undergraduates are selected to spend the summer doing research at WHOI, in the Summer Student Fellowship program. Soon after they arrive, the students learn what it’s like to…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Stephanie Waterman holds the “beta boat,” a unique instrument she built with physical oceanographer John Whitehead and engineer Keith Bradley for her experiments on how ocean…