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Summer Student Fellow Thiago Martins-Parente, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), removes scup from a holding tank in the recently renovated wet lab in Redfield […]

Ice covered much of the Arctic Ocean during the Beaufort Gyre experiment expedition of 2006. Research at both the North and South Polar Regions will be a focus of […]

Will Ostrom (blue hard hat), a senior engineering assistant in the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography, and Joe Alvernes, a crewmember of the fishing vessel Nobska, scrape mussels from […]

Dick Backus, a WHOI scientist emeritus and curator emeritus of the Herbarium at the Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI Library, works on identifying another plant specimen with Pam Polloni, acting […]

When Mark Spear stepped out of the submersible Alvin as WHOI’s newest deep-sea pilot, fellow pilot Gavin Eppard greeted him with a traditional baptism on the deck of […]

There must be an ideal scientists’ office…where all of the textbooks, journals, research reports, and data sets are neatly filed away. But that is probably a mathematical improbability… (Besides, […]

Summer Student Fellow Maya Yamato measures the head of a minke whale–Balaenoptera acutorostrata–that WHOI researchers were asked to investigate in the new necropsy lab at WHOI’s Marine […]

A sediment corer dangles in the evening sun before being lowered to the seafloor in the Gulf of Maine. Researchers from WHOI, NOAA, and several institutions sampled the muck […]

From the roof of Redfield Laboratory you can get a panoramic view of the village of Woods Hole, Eel Pond, and several buildings of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and […]

Summer Student Fellow Kira Krumhansl holds collection trays for barnacle studies in Eel Pond, Woods Hole. WHOI researchers are investigating the timing of when barnacle larvae […]

Senior Research Specialist Dan Frye and Senior Engineering Assistant Will Ostrom savor another successful buoy and mooring deployment by the WHOI mooring and engineering team.  The research team […]

Debris from a Roman shipwreck site in the Mediterranean Sea provides clues to marine archaeologists about ancient trade routes. The photo-mosaic was made from dozens of images and […]

Jeff Standish, a recent graduate of the MIT/WHOI joint graduate program in oceanography, visits a famous location during a break from studies of the Gakkel Ridge, part of a mountain […]

A tow sled with air guns is lifted from its cradle for deployment from the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent during the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project in 2006. Read More

Mount Augustine, near Homer, Alaska, spews ash and steam into the glow of the sunset. Five ocean bottom seismometers were deployed in February 2006 in Cook Inlet (around the […]

Every December, as the elves bustle in the workshop, the carolers croon in the village, and Santa checks his list, the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers make their rounds to […]

WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh (center) helps deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) SeaBED in the Aegean Sea during recent archaeological studies. Singh took part in the Project […]

Workers set up scaffolding around the stern A-frame of R/V Atlantis. The frame and winch system is used to deploy and recover the research submersible Alvin, which is […]