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High Honor
In 2011, leaders of Congress presented gold medals to the crewmembers of Apollo 11, the 1969 journey commanded by astronaut Neil Armstrong that culminated with man’s first steps on […]
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A Pacific white-sided dolphin swims alongside the research vessel Atlantis during an October 2006 cruise off the Oregon coast. Pacific white-sided dolphins and their Atlantic counterparts are known as […]
Read MoreReef Diversity
With their clear water and multi-colored organisms, coral reef ecosystems such as this in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) are an iconic sight. But corals also exist […]
Read MoreSerpentine Style
It’s not a miniature serpent—scientists found this glassy planktonic worm in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. A relative of earthworms, it uses its red-tipped swimming paddles to swim through the […]
Read MoreWelcome to New York
In May 1997, the recently launched research vessel R/V Atlantis made its way into New York City during its first year of service. Atlantis continues to be operated by […]
Read MorePO Top Story Slideshow
Drone’s-eye View
WHOI biologist Michael Moore releases a drone from a boat in the Gulf of Corcovado off the southern coast of Chile while a blue whale swims in the distance. […]
Read MoreClues in the Core
Sarah Jayne, a guest student from Northeastern University working in the lab of WHOI biochemist Amanda Spivak, breaks down a piece of core sampled from the Kennebec river […]
Read MoreEndangered Whales Get a High-Tech Check-Up
Did It Just Pop?
On what was known as the “Popping Rocks” expedition, a research team led by WHOI geochemist Mark Kurz used the submersible […]
Read MoreFish Stories
WHOI’s founding director Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879-1967) was one of the giants of U.S. oceanography. His interests spanned both the ocean’s physical characteristics and the natural history of marine […]
Read More#SpeakForTheOcean, Grand Prize Winner
Grand prize winning video by Emma Bartram, 16, and Gillian Asuncion, 17. Video was part of the 2016 #GetOnBoard R/V Neil Armstrong’s #SpeakForTheOcean video contest.
Read MoreA Warming Arctic
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis photographed this Arctic denizen when he served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015. Led by Michael […]
Read MoreArbor Day Oceanography
Keelan Murphy (left), a student at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and Mary Lardie, a technician in the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility at WHOI, extracted samples […]
Read MoreTo the Seafloor and Back
Holey Corals
This coral may look like it was blasted by a shotgun, but these holes are occupied by tiny molluscs that bore into coral skeletons to escape predators. This process, called […]
Read MoreCollecting Trip
WHOI biologist Ann Tarrant collects animals from a Woods Hole, Mass., salt marsh to culture and study in the lab. Tarrant investigates the genes invertebrate animals use to respond […]
Read MoreSoul of the Machine
Bear Necessities
WHOI biologist Cabell Davis photographed this Arctic denizen when he served as principal scientist on the Elysium Artists for the Arctic Expedition in fall 2015. Led by Michael […]
Read MoreClose Call
On September 14, 1944, with a category 4 hurricane working its way up the Eastern seaboard, WHOI’s research vessel Atlantis was secured to the National Marine Fisheries Service dock in […]
Read MoreHappy Earth-Ocean Day
Many processes that marine scientists study also have connections to dry land. Last year, students and faculty explored the rocks surrounding the Snake River Plain Yellowstone Hotspot, which lies […]
Read MoreNeel Aluru
Good-bye and Good Luck
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Remains of the Day
Six years after the blow-out of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy (right), is still finding oil from the […]
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