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During a rare appearance together at the WHOI dock one foggy day this summer, the research vessels Atlantis and Neil Armstrong are prepped to steam to their […]

Tuktoyaktuk means “Land of the Caribou” in the Inuvialuit language, which explains the sculpture, but it’s the landscape that interests MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Lauren Kipp. Kipp traveled to […]

Even while conducting research out in the Pacific Ocean, far from family and friends, it’s still Thanksgiving for U.S. scientists and crew members, and they always look for ways to […]

On research cruises that overlap holidays, scientists and ship’s crew still try to mark the occasion with decorations, celebrations, and, most importantly, special meals. Former mess attendant Kathryn Eident […]

Antarctic science comes in all sizes. In 2006 two research ships and an inflatable boat, all carrying scientists, were juxtaposed against the slopes of volcanic Deception Island off Antarctica: […]

Physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz (right), at WHOI’s Iselin Dock test well, is interviewed by CBS News correspondent DeMarco Morgan for a story about hurricanes. Over Labor Day weekend, […]

WHOI scientist Anthony Kirincich (right) and Matthew Filippelli from AWS Truepower, Inc., install a Wind Cube device atop WHOI’s 76-foot Air-Sea Interaction Tower two miles off Martha’s Vineyard. […]

The research vessels Atlantis (foreground) and Thomas G. Thompson sailed the same seas for a brief time in the summer of 2009. If they seem to look a alike, […]

Katarzyna Melaniuk, a guest student visiting WHOI scientist Joan Bernhard‘s lab, examines cultures of single-celled foraminifera (forams) collected off Norway. She is investigating whether certain species live in […]

On its return to Woods Hole in May, the research vessel Neil Armstrong could be seen emptying its anti-roll tank. The 500-gallon tank just below the bridge is fitted […]

Penguins are like the proverbial canaries in coal mines for the Antarctic region—they are highly sensitive to the impacts of climate change on their food and habitat. Over the past […]

In September, WHOI received a visit from the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral John Richardson, a four-star admiral who is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy. […]

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry can carry advanced scientific equipment and work down to 6,000 meters deep in the ocean, but it still […]

A large blue-and-yellow surface buoy is hoisted aboard R/V Neil Armstrong in preparation for a cruise to the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The […]

A leatherback turtle breaches the surface near the ferry lane between Martha’s Vineyard and Woods Hole, Mass. A ‘turtle-borne’ camera snapped this photo as part of the WHOI TurtleCam project. […]

WHOI climate science takes our researchers all over the globe. In Greenland, they are working to understand how the island’s two mile-thick ice sheet is disappearing. If it […]

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1958, watches as scientist Edmund Watson and others depart on a […]