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This Saturday, June 25, is the day for the public to come help welcome R/V Neil Armstrong. The nation’s newest research vessel will be on display at the WHOI […]

William A. Watkins helped pioneer the field marine mammal bioacoustics, opening our ears to an underwater world of sound. Watkins was a self-taught electrical engineer who initially came to […]

WHOI post-doctoral investigator Tom Chalk manipulates a dataset showing carbonate ion concentration in the 3-dimensional image visualization laboratory. The lab is used to help analyze large, geo-referenced datasets […]

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sophie Chu (left) and research assistant Kate Morkeski, who work with chemist Aleck Wang, prepare to deploy a Channelized Optical System (CHANOS) sensor in […]

An Adélie penguin bends low to check on its eggs, which are snuggled into the warm skin and feathers between its legs. Adélies live for 15 to 20 years, and […]

WHOI marine archaeologist Brendan Foley holds a gold ring he and his team recovered from the Anitkythera wreck site off the coast of Greece. The ring is similar to one […]

A buoy sits on the WHOI dock in preparation for an August 2016 expedition to the Irminger and Labrador Seas. The buoy, which will be attached to a sub-surface Read More

Bringing a 274-foot research vessel to rest is not for the faint-of-back. Pete Liarikos, bosun on R/V Neil Armstrong, lent a hand recently in helping secure R/V Atlantis to the […]

Dean and Vice President for Academic Programs Jim Yoder does the honors in dedicating a new dormitory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. The dorm contains 35 beds spread among 18 […]

What looks like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway is actually something to strike fear in the heart of any fish swimming nearby. These are the […]

Today is World Oceans Day. The global ocean is one of the keys to life on Earth. It helps regulate our climate and our water supply, supplies oxygen to the atmosphere, […]

Rear Admiral Chris Sadler (left) and Viceadmirante Francisco Perez Rico complete the transfer of R/V Knorr (now the Rio Tecolutla) to the Mexican Navy. In its more than four decades at WHOI, […]

WHOI scientist Veronique LeRoux places a sample of porous lava into a Skyscan 1272 CT, an imaging system that creates three-dimensional views of physical samples that it scanns. LeRoux is a geologist […]

Circa 1966, two swimmers flank the pilot guiding the original DSV Alvin into its docking space in Lulu, the sub’s first tender ship. After its recent extensive overhaul […]

Surface buoys stand outside the Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems at WHOI, where they undergo testing before deployment at sea. These five Coastal Profiler Moorings and one […]

Assistant engineers Jean Lavache and Wayne Sylvia and oiler Roger Fong (left to right) overhaul a pump on R/V Neil Armstrong during its inaugural voyage from Anacortes, Wash., […]

The first four graduate students to receive degrees from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program at the first commencement ceremonies in 1970 sit in the front row on either side of […]

In a collaborative project with researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SI0), a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with imaging LiDAR—a remote sensing technology that uses […]