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Ship strikes threaten the survival of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. About 300 to 350 animals remain. This photo was taken in 2004 during fieldwork in the Bay […]

Rising 4,360 meters (14,300 feet) from the seafloor off Samoa, Vailulu’u looks like an underwater version of Mount Fuji. (Courtesy Stan Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

In a painting of a hydrothermal chimney named Hulk on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a camera mounted on the remotely operated vehicle Jason II captures high-resolution images using light […]

A juvenile copepod, Calanus glacialis, collected on a recent Arctic cruise, is about the size of the tip of a pencil. The shrimp-like animals are an important part of the […]

The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was the first deep AUV developed by WHOI engineers. With its ability to maintain a stable and constant altitude over changing seafloor topography, ABE can […]

Scientists and engineers check out the model of the personnel sphere for the Alvin replacement, expected in 2009. The mock-up enables users as well as engineers to visualize changes […]

Ellen Roosen, Susan Humphris, and Jim Broda (left to right in this panorama) go over plans, now completed, for expanding the sediment core library at WHOI’s McLean Laboratory. The […]

The Fenno family in front oftheir summer home, circa 1930. Purchased by WHOI in 1968 as part of theQuissett Campus, Fenno House today houses offices of the Director, Communications and Development […]

Pierre-J.Gauthier collects gas from the rim of Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua during a March 2006 expedition. Gauthier, a French scientist, and WHOI geochemist Ken Sims sample gas from volcanoes worldwide […]

WHOI scientist Claudia Cenedese (in dark shirt) simulates fluid flow and eddies around seamounts using a rotating table and colored dyes. Rachel Bueno de Mesquita (in pink) is a […]

WHOI geologist Jian Lin studies a sample of seafloor collected near the site of the December 2004 earthquake off the island of Sumatra that resulted in a devastating Read More

The new AUV Sentry is lowered into the water for shallow tests off the WHOI dock in late 2005. The vehicle was successfully tested in deep water in April. (Photo […]

Sunset off the coast of Colombia, photographed during a sediment coring cruise for climate studies. (Photo by James Broda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

R/V Knorr seen from the shore of Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos islands. The ship will return to Woods Hole in late June after a lengthy voyage in the […]

In June 2004 students and staff with the MIT/WHOI Joint Program hiked at Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii for insight into the island’s origin. (Photo by John Whitehead, Woods Hole Oceanographic […]

Navigational lighting from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy makes an interesting pattern in the Arctic ice. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

WHOI geologist Debbie Smith explores volcanic terrain in Iceland. The island provides a land-based laboratory for oceanographers to study lava formation and flow. (Photo courtesy of Debbie Smith, Woods Hole […]

A diver services instruments collecting data in the surf zone. Currents, waves and sands constantly change the shoreline. (Photo by Britt Raubenheimer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Giant clams up to one foot long thrive in the crevices around seafloor pillow lava. This vent site on the Galápagos Rift, discovered in 2002, is called “Calyfield” after the […]