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In 2013, a WHOI-led research team set sail for the Eastern Beaufort Sea. Their mission: to search for evidence of a huge, ancient, freshwater flood caused by the melting of…

More than 400 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students just beginning their oceanographic careers have found their bearings aboard the Jake Peirson Summer Cruise, which began in 1990 as a rich introduction…

The copepod pictured on this laptop screen is only a few millimeters long, but it appears much larger through the “eyes” of a new holographic camera system. WHOI biologist Peter…

Mara Freilich, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, is exploring where plankton thrives in the ocean. Her research area is the Mediterranean Sea, where less-salty, less-dense water from…

In the late 1940s, WHOI scientists helped document the impacts of U.S. nuclear weapons tests conducted in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 during Operation Crossroads. To measure surge…

Emerson Hasbrouck, an engineering assistant with WHOI’s Upper-Ocean Processes Group, prepares a Stratus buoy for deployment in Valparaíso, Chile. The buoy holds instruments that measure air and sea surface temperatures,…

WHOI biologist Peter Wiebe (standing, far left) guides guest student Will Scott in casting a net into the test well on the WHOI pier, as physicist Andone Lavery (seated, left),…

Climate change is leading to diminishing sea ice near the Arctic coast, leaving more open water for winds to create more waves, which reach down and stir up sediments on…

A spray glider launched in March 2017 from a patrol ship off the Seychelles Islands in the western Indian Ocean spent four months zig-zagging through the upper 1,000 meters (3,300 feet)…

These delicate creatures are no bigger than a quarter, but their tentacles can sometimes deliver painful stings. Clinging jellyfish are found along the northeastern U.S. coast. Beachgoers need not be…

In 1983, WHOI engineers spent long summer weeks in East Boston working to upgrade and convert the research vessel Atlantis II into the support ship for the human-occupied submersible Alvin.…

Jerome Wiesner, then-president of MIT, presided at the 1980 commencement ceremony, held near the WHOI pier in Woods Hole, for graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean…

WHOI engineer and SharkCam co-developer Amy Kukulya (blue jacket) has not only helped bring sharks into living rooms since 2012 on The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, but she remains a…

The Ayeyawady River delta in Myanmar is home to millions of people and is a hub of agricultural activity for the country. Unlike other large rivers across the world, it…

The incoming class of MIT-WHOI Joint Program students joins the crew of the sailing school vessel Corwith Cramer in a cheerful collapse to celebrate their return to Woods Hole after…