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Katarzyna Melaniuk, a guest student visiting WHOI scientist Joan Bernhard‘s lab, examines cultures of single-celled foraminifera (forams) collected off Norway. She is investigating whether certain species live in […]

On its return to Woods Hole in May, the research vessel Neil Armstrong could be seen emptying its anti-roll tank. The 500-gallon tank just below the bridge is fitted […]

Penguins are like the proverbial canaries in coal mines for the Antarctic region—they are highly sensitive to the impacts of climate change on their food and habitat. Over the past […]

In September, WHOI received a visit from the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Admiral John Richardson, a four-star admiral who is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy. […]

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry can carry advanced scientific equipment and work down to 6,000 meters deep in the ocean, but it still […]

A large blue-and-yellow surface buoy is hoisted aboard R/V Neil Armstrong in preparation for a cruise to the Coastal Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. The […]

A leatherback turtle breaches the surface near the ferry lane between Martha’s Vineyard and Woods Hole, Mass. A ‘turtle-borne’ camera snapped this photo as part of the WHOI TurtleCam project. […]

WHOI climate science takes our researchers all over the globe. In Greenland, they are working to understand how the island’s two mile-thick ice sheet is disappearing. If it […]

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1940 to 1950 and from 1956 to 1958, watches as scientist Edmund Watson and others depart on a […]

A summer sunset over the WHOI dock finds the research vessel Atlantis at home between voyages. In addition to space for WHOI’s ships, the dock and encompassing Iselin […]

2016 Summer Student Fellow Erin Houlihan prepares to take a calibration image with a camera that is part of a system for tracking movement of oyster larvae. […]

After the August 2016 Ocean Worlds 2 Meeting, some of the attending space and ocean scientists stayed to tour parts of WHOI, hosted by senior scientist Chris German. […]

In August, space and ocean scientists gathered in Woods Hole, Mass., for the second annual Ocean Worlds Meeting, organized by scientists and engineers around the U.S. including […]

Yellow tents at the edge of a glacier were home to WHOI researchers for seven weeks in 2008. The researchers collected samples from glaciers on the western edge of the […]

Ian Hanley, first mate on WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga, oversees offloading a FlowCytobot, which uses a laser to count and identify tiny marine plants called phytoplankton. The instrument spent several […]