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While the crew of R/V Neil Armstrong prepared a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) mooring line for deployment southeast of Greenland recently, they were visited by a large pod of pilot whales. Like…

This series of photos taken by the WHOI deep-tow camera ANGUS in 1977 provided the first view of the unexpectedly diverse, abundant communities of life on a seafloor once thought…

Alfred Redfield, shown in his lab in 1955, joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931. He went on to serve as Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. Redfield’s…

In 1963, WHOI biologist Dick Backus, shown here watching the return from a precision graphic recorder, used a solar eclipse to solve a puzzling oceanographic mystery. For decades, scientists had known that…

A Slocum glider is lowered into the western Mediterranean Sea from the Mallorcan research catamaran SOCIB, as part of a recent expedition to study how currents there affect salinity, temperature,…

Surface moorings in the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative have buoys that are among the largest and most complex platforms of their type deployed in the ocean. That includes buoys at…

Rear Admiral (ret.) Mike Manazir (far right) and staff visited WHOI last month to tour labs and talk with WHOI scientists about their undersea research and technology development. The tour…

Two graduate students monitor sampling operations in the South China Sea during a February 2017 expedition. WHOI physical oceanographer Louis St. Laurent and colleagues from National Taiwan University and National…

With sun setting in the North Atlantic, WHOI technicians pay out a mooring from the fantail of the research vessel Neil Armstrong. The mooring is part of the Pioneer Array, a…

WHOI engineer Daniel Gomez-Ibanez prepares WHOI’s newest autonomous underwater vehicle, Clio, for its recent sea trials from research vessel Neil Armstrong. The white cylinder Gomez-Ibanez is working on is called…

Researchers aboard R/V Neil Armstrong launch a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) sensor during an April expedition off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., where shallow-water currents collide with deep-water…

WHOI senior research assistant Ellen Roosen shows a group of visitors sediment cores from the Seafloor Samples Laboratory. The cores contain physical and chemical clues to the ocean’s past, such…

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Sophie Ruehr (Yale University, left) and Partnership in Education Program student Adrynne Jones (Eastern Michigan University, right) prepare to extract a sample of sediment from a gravity…

WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility will be a focal point of activities and displays during the Woods Hole Science Stroll this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The free public…

The rear deck of R/V Neil Armstrong was full of gear—including these 7,700-pound mooring anchors—as the ship left on a recent three-week cruise to recover and deploy instruments at the…

WHOI research assistant David Bailey checks the algae used to feed shellfish larvae that he grows in WHOI’s Environmental Systems Lab. The shellfish are used by biologist Scott Lindell in…

A delegation from the Consulate General of Japan in Boston toured WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis on a recent visit to WHOI: Consul General Rokuichiro Michii, Consul Mari Fujii, researcher and advisor…