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An airplane sprays chemical dispersants on an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Two new studies by WHOI researchers found […]

WHOI Senior Engineer Matt Heintz steadies the remotely operated deep-sea vehicle Jason as it undergoes testing off the WHOI dock in 2016, after a $2.4 million upgrade funded by the […]

Preparing the human-occupied submersible Alvin for launch follows a carefully scripted, multi-page checklist that requires careful attention to detail in order to ensure the safety of everyone inside the […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate students Lizzie Wallace (left) and Rose Palermo prepare to deploy tiltmeters to measure the current produced by waves in Whale Bay, Bermuda, as part of […]

Members of the WHOI community lined the dock on a rainy, cold morning recently to watch as the institution’s two large research vessels, Neil Armstrong (left) and Atlantis (top) […]

Scientists collected these organisms from the bottom of the Bering Sea on a 2009 expedition. These polychaete worms and one mollusk (the light pink loop in the center) provide food […]

This kayak is souped up for science. Dubbed the JetYak, it’s motorized and remotely controlled, and it  maneuvers easily in shallow water. WHOI scientist and engineer Peter Traykovski […]

A curious octopus (Grimpoteuthis) peers into the viewport of the human-occupied deep-submergence vehicle Alvin, while the observers inside are undoubtedly peering out to look at it. Cirrate octopuses like […]

A large iceberg breaks away from the Helheim Glacier and floats among slabs of pack ice in Sermilik Fjord along the southeastern coast of Greenland. The glacier, about 3 […]

Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, often reaching 70 to 90 feet—the length of two school buses. But when it comes to food, these giant marine mammals […]

WHOI able-bodied seaman Raul Martinez and SSSG technician Allison Heater prepare the human-occupied vehicle Alvin for a dive in March 2014. They communicate with the sub’s pilot through a […]

The ocean’s twilight zone teems with life. This little-known part of the ocean—200 to 1,000 meters (660 to 3,300 feet) below the surface—may have more fish biomass than in […]

Research engineer Lee Freitag and colleagues in the WHOI Acoustic Communications Group are developing a longe-range underwater sound-singalling system to warn of possible tsunamis. When a pressure sensor […]

The remarkable squidworm was discovered by WHOI scientist Larry Madin and colleagues during a 2007 expedition to explore the deep waters of the Celebes Sea in the Philippines. The squidworm […]

A research team led by WHOI scientists collects samples of groundwater from a well on Enewetak Atoll, one of the tiny Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean (from left, WHOI […]

This experiment on the seafloor examined whether pumping carbon dioxide to the bottom of the ocean might affect organisms living there. That is one proposed strategy to combat the […]