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Every summer, the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science. […]

Scientists used a remotely controlled hexacopter to take detailed aerial photographs of endangered right whales and to collect samples of their “blow”—the spray whales exhale out of their blowholes. In the […]

Sea level rise is accelerating as warming temperatures cause ice to melt and ocean water to expand. Under many scenarios, sea level rise is expected to remain under three […]

WHOI students and scientists investigate a discontinuity between two layers of volcanic rock that form the interior of a cinder cone on Mount Shasta in northern California. Mount Shasta is […]

It wouldn’t be summer in Woods Hole without the traditional photo on the front porch of the Walsh Cottage on the WHOI campus, documenting the annual Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship […]

During Major League Baseball’s 2017 All-Star Break, Boston Red Sox Manager John Farrell (third from left) and friends and family visited WHOI’s research vessel Neil Armstrong and were given a […]

WHOI engineer Mike McCarthy works on the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry after testing at the dock in Woods Hole. Sentry’s suite of sensors makes it uniquely equipped for oceanographic investigation […]

WHOI postdoctoral scholar Sam Muñoz prepares the small research vessel Arenaria for launch in Big Lake, Missouri, this spring. Muñoz used the tripod in the foreground to extract sediment […]

Anna Michel, an assistant scientist at WHOI, received the 2017 Arnold B. Arons Award from Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean Jim Yoder at the MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduation reception […]

WHOI geophysicist Dan Lizarralde points to a real-time image of the seafloor off Martha’s Vineyard, generated by an EK80 echosounder on the research vessel Neil Armstrong. Lizarralde can […]

Yellowstone National Park attracts millions of tourists each year, drawn in part by the park’s iconic geysers, hot springs, and fumaroles. But fewer know about the hotbed of […]

WHOI research assistant Kate Morkeski and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mallory Ringham navigate a temporary causeway in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve during an exceptionally high “king tide.” […]

In addition to animals that live in the ocean, WHOI scientists also study animals that rely on the marine envionment in many ways, including seabirds such as black-browed albatrosses. […]

WHOI scientists brought in underwater instruments normally used to explore the deep ocean to hunt for geothermal activity at the bottom of Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park. WHOI engineer […]

Members of the WHOI Board of Trustees and WHOI Senior Administration paused for a photo opportunity at the May 2017 Trustees meeting at Woods Hole Golf Club. Founded in 1930, WHOI is […]

A team on R/V Atlantis that included WHOI scientist Jeff McGuire recently deployed one of nine bottom moorings as part of a seafloor monitoring system off of Iquique, Chile. […]