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What do you do when you have to do fieldwork on Halloween? You put your costume on early. Members of WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group did just that yesterday during a…

WHOI senior research assistant Ellen Roosen shows a group of visitors sediment cores from the Seafloor Samples Laboratory. The cores contain physical and chemical clues to the ocean’s past, such…

WHOI postdoctoral scholar Sam Muñoz prepares the small research vessel Arenaria for launch in Big Lake, Missouri, this spring. Muñoz used the tripod in the foreground to extract sediment cores…

Alexandra Labella, a guest student in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, collects a sample of sediments cored from a blue hole in Caicos Island. Blue holes are sinkholes that formed on…

WHOI researchers are trying to better understand future storms by studying the past, such as the hurricane of 1938, which devastated Cape Cod and killed hundreds. As a hurricane passes,…

Hurricane season in the North Atlantic begins on June 1, which means scientists are once again preparing for any opportunity to study large storms. One of the key drivers of…

Alexandra Labella, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, analyzes a sediment core sample in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly. Labella is one of many students who work at WHOI…

WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly, Texas A&M University at Galveston graduate student Tyler Winkler, and Winkler’s advisor, geologist Pete van Hengstum (left to right) pause for a photo during a…

WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly extracts a tube of sediment from a Cape Cod marsh as participants in the Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship look on. Sediment in a marsh builds…

Physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz (right), at WHOI’s Iselin Dock test well, is interviewed by CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan for a story about hurricanes. Over Labor Day weekend, Gawarkiewicz led…

On a recent visit, Admiral John Richardson (right), the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, toured a number of the Institution’s science and engineering facilities and heard from researchers about their…

With a storm on the horizon, the ocean is probably the last place you want to put your valuable instruments. Patrick Deane (left) and Sean Whelan did just that, launching an…

Sometimes studying the ocean requires that scientists take to the air, as physical oceanographer Steve Jayne did with the Air Force 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. Jayne flew with aircraft commander Lt.…

Graduate student Anna Wargula (above, at a 2014 open house) will speak on “The Power of Waves at Martha’s Vineyard” in the summer talk series, “Science Made Public,” July 19…

These miniscule sediment samples were collected by Kristen Esser, a guest student from Northeastern University interning in the Coastal Systems Group Lab. Lab members have gathered cores from around the…

WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly (left) of the Coastal Systems Group and actor Ian Somerhalder hold a sediment core during recent filming for an episode of the documentary TV series “Years of…

Alex Ekholm and Pelle Robbins test the programming of a newly developed ALAMO (Air-launched Autonomous Micro Observer) profiling float in a test tank at WHOI. The floats are designed to be…

The storm surge from the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, which made landfall as a category 3 storm on Long Island battered the shore of Woods Hole, Mass. In addition…

Joanne Malkus Simpson  was the first female meteorologist to earn a doctorate. She discovered what keeps hurricanes moving forward and revealed what drives the atmospheric currents in the tropics. As a…