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WHOI postdoctoral investigator Erika Johnson prepares to launch an aerial drone to survey the Coonamessett River in Falmouth, Mass. With its thermal camera, the drone can identify potential groundwater springs—which…

Dave Lovalvo, president of Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, deploys a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to examine the geothermically active bottom of Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming. WHOI scientist Rob Sohn, who has explored hydrothermal vents on…

In WHOI’s Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems, underwater robotics exhibitors talk to Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems Frank Kelley (center, USMC Brigadier General, Ret.)…

Tourists visiting Yellowstone National Park can see steaming fissures, bubbling mudpots, and explosive geysers from roadside stops. But beneath the surface of Yellowstone Lake, hidden from view, is a fount…

In the low light of Antarctic spring, a researcher on the ice watches for a plane. A research team, including MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Laura Stevens, traveled to the Ross…

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya (left) and first mate Drew Friel launch a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from the R/V Discovery into a patch of fluorescein dye in Buzzards Bay,…

WHOI seismologist Ralph Stephen and collaborators at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Washington University in St. Louis, and Colorado State University are leading an effort to better understand the disintegration of…

WHOI coastal geologist Jeff Donnelly, Texas A&M University at Galveston graduate student Tyler Winkler, and Winkler’s advisor, geologist Pete van Hengstum (left to right) pause for a photo during a…

Diatoms—a type of phytoplankton—are intricate and beautiful under the microscope. In this composite image, a micrograph of a diatom is flanked by a pair of diatom-inspired earrings created by survivors…

Most of the surface of Earth is covered by ocean, so it follows that most of the rain falling on the planet falls on the ocean. That rain, in turn,…

During a recent cruise on R/V Neil Armstrong for the Overturning of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP), WHOI scientist Bob Pickart and his team sent a small boat out…

WHOI research assistant Luis Valentin-Alvarado examines a petri dish for colonies of E. coli. The bacteria have been made to produce large quantities of peptide standards—short amino acid chains—from the…

This antique medicine chest was used by the crew of the original Atlantis, WHOI’s first research vessel and the first ship built for oceanographic research. The chest retired with the…

Engineer Brian Hogue works on a McLane Moored Profiler (MMP) in WHOI’s Field Instrumentation and eXperiment Implementation Team (FIXIT) lab. Hogue is one half of a two-man team with fellow…

A buoy built at WHOI is deployed from the R/V Roger Revelle in the Pacific Ocean in 2016. The buoy, outfitted with dozens of sensors above and below the water,…

From the air, this rift in the Ross Ice Shelf might appear to be a small crack, but it is actually 300 feet wide and tens of miles long. The…