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WHOI scientist Veronique LeRoux places a sample of porous lava into a Skyscan 1272 CT, an imaging system that creates three-dimensional views of physical samples that it scanns. LeRoux is a geologist […]

In a collaborative project with researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SI0), a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with imaging LiDAR—a remote sensing technology that uses […]

This purple fish, Bythites hollisi, was named after Alvin pilot Ralph Hollis, who captured one in 1988 with a net held in Alvin’s manipulator arm. Bythites hollisi is […]

Alvin is currently in Woods Hole undergoing maintenance work and so the Deep Submergence Science Committee (DESSC), which acts as an advisory group to the National Deep […]

NOAA’s HabCamV4 imaging system was developed by WHOI scientists and engineers and captures six stereo image pairs per second resulting in one million images per day as it is […]

At an open house that she hosted in the WHOI Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) Laboratory, scientist Claudia Cenedese invited visitors to have their portrait taken with a thermal-imaging camera, […]

In May and June 2014, a cruise co-led by WHOI scientist Bob Pickart aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy went to the Arctic to study large phytoplankton […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Bennett Spencer Lambert helps install a FlowCytobot at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory as a school of fish passes by. The instrument uses a […]

Climate change was the talk of the day for U.S. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., (head of the table on the left) during a visit to WHOI in July. Markey […]

Engineer Amy Kukulya introduced the REMUS SharkCam at a public event in 2013 describing WHOI’s research on sharks and seals. he Discovery Channel commissioned the Read More

Over the last 50 years, the submersible Alvin has made many undersea discoveries and been involved in countless observations, collections, and experiments. During those years Alvin has been upgraded with the latest in […]

The submersible Alvin recently completed a major upgrade and is now back exploring the ocean. Some of the major improvements include a new, bigger, and more ergonomic […]