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In 1971, marine biologist Ruth Turner became the first woman to dive in WHOI’s human-occupied submersible Alvin. Turner, pictured here with Alvin Chief Pilot Ralph Hollis aboard the research […]

This vehicle’s unassuming appearance belies the fact that it was instrumental is some of the most important undersea discoveries: finding hydrothermal vents and chemosynthetic deep-sea life in 1977 […]

The North Atlantic can be an inhospitable place, especially in late winter, but that is exactly when WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Pickart needs to be there. Pickart and his […]

An Adelie penguin hunches down over its nest as icy winds whip across Cape Royds on Ross Island during a 2007 Polar Discovery expedition. Adelie penguins are sentinel species […]

WHOI engineer Korey Verhein works on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Medea prior to departure on the research vessel Atlantis recently. Medea is part of the ROV Jason […]

At times during the Deepwater Horizon crisis, WHOI researchers had to take safety precautions. From left, WHOI’s Sean Sylva, Chris Reddy, and Rich Camilli, and U.S. Coast Guard Lt. […]

The microbes on a whale’s skin could provide clues to its health. In a recent study, WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill collected skin samples from humpback whales in the North […]

WHOI engineers Rick Krishfield (right) and Kris Newhall take part of an ice-tethered profiler (ITP) for a sled ride in Resolute Bay, Canada, before deploying it on an […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julia Middleton took this photo of her sister during a trip to the Grand Canyon, but her eyes were on the canyon walls. Formations […]

The history of women at sea on WHOI ships began quietly on April 8, 1952, when the husband-and-wife team of Harvard biologists Barbara Lawrence and William Schevill, who was a […]

WHOI machinist and resident facilitator D.C. Collasius (left) and Judson Poole, an engineer assistant, at work in the Dunkworks Lab—a state-of-the-art, rapid-prototyping center that opened its doors last summer. The […]

Graduate students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program went on the first orientation cruise aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong in September 2017, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Read More

WHOI researcher Jennie Rheuban led a study showing that warmer water temperatures are fueling an increase in algae growth in Buzzards Bay, Mass. The study used data compiled over […]

The Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) at WHOI was recently chosen by the Massachusetts TechHUB Caucus to receive a NextGEN award, which recognizes tech firms and organizations that […]

When an oil spill occurs, WHOI marine geochemist Chris Reddy often flies to the spill site to collect oil samples. In this case, Reddy only had to walk down the […]

Last September, WHOI paleoceanographer Lloyd Keigwin led an expedition to the Azores in the North Atlantic to study the geologic history of ocean currents. To do that, the scientists […]

Here’s a new addition to the fleet of oceanographic vehicles: the Jetyak. It was developed by WHOI scientists Peter Traykovski and Hanu Singh, who adapted a commercially […]