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The WHOI Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) fosters collaboration between WHOI engineers and scientists and industry sponsors, academic partners, and key government agencies, in order to develop new robotic […]

WHOI held its periodic Anything-But-A-Boat Race on Sept. 16 in Woods Hole, Mass.—a community event that attracted hundreds of spectators. Race rules stipulate that “unboats” must be without boat […]

The research vessel Neil Armstrong ducked into Prince Christian Sound last week to take advantage of the calm seas. The ship is currently on a mission to replace a set […]

Jim Tynan uses a model of the human-occupied vehicle Alvin in the Ocean Science Discovery Center to inform visitors about the research and engineering that goes on at WHOI. Tynan […]

The remotely operated vehicle Jason is recovered after a mission to explore Brothers Volcano in the Kermedec Arc 400 nautical miles off the northern coast of New Zealand. WHOI scientists and colleagues […]

Margaret Tivey, vice president for academic programs & dean of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, presents Lt. Ryan Conway with the 2018 Richard F. Pittenger Award. It is given annually […]

The Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) is holding its 2018 Fall Symposium tomorrow (Sat., Sept. 22) in Woods Hole. Last year’s meeting (pictured) focused on women scientists finding […]

The crew of the research vessel Neil Armstrong and WHOI mooring technicians return a seafloor tripod into the Labrador Sea southwest of Greenland for another two-year deployment as part […]

Sam Levang, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, investigates the pathways of ocean water circulating throughout the globe. The oceans circulate heat and have a significant role in […]

From left: WHOI engineer Andrew Davies, bosun Pete Liarkos, and WHOI engineers John Kemp and Brian Hogue recover a mooring aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong southeast of Greenland. […]

WHOI scientists, along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, deploy a meteorological buoy off the research vessel Neil Armstrong near Cape Hatteras in April, 2017. The […]

A U.S. Air Force “Hurricane Hunter” prepares to drop an ALAMO (Air-Launched Autonomous Micro-Observer) float into the ocean in front of a hurricane. WHOI oceanographer Steve Jayne routinely […]

To forecast hurricane intensities more accurately, scientists need to know a critical piece of information: how much heat is stored in the in upper 1,000 meters of the ocean.  Read More

The sea raven, is a common bottom-dweller in ocean waters off New England. WHOI postdoctoral investigator Andrea Bogomolni (pictured) and WHOI researcher Alex Bocconcelli encountered this one earlier this […]

WHOI recently concluded its first expedition to study life in the ocean twilight zone, a joint research cruise with scientists from the National Marine Fisheries Service and Read More

WHOI engineer and SharkCam co-developer Amy Kukulya (center) testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in July. U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.) convened Read More

In 1960, WHOI researchers on the research vessel Crawford devised a novel way of measuring the slope of the seafloor. They took sonar depth measurements from two fixed points […]