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In the lab on WHOI’s coastal vessel Tioga, instructor Cindy Sellers shows undergraduate students real-time data on water conductivity, temperature, and depth from a CTD instrument lowered from the boat.…

WHOI Ship Operations Director Al Suchy, left, was among those who greeted Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on the WHOI dock in June. WHOI VP for Marine Operations Rob Munier makes…

This is what’s left of a many-toothed tungsten drill bit after drilling through rock far beneath the seafloor. WHOI geologist Henry Dick recently led a voyage to the Indian Ocean,…

Summer Student Fellows Victoria Garefino (left) and Cynthia Becker (center) collect killifish for their research in Scorton Creek on Cape Cod with WHOI biologist Neel Aluru. These small, abundant fish…

R/V Albatross III first sailed under the name Harvard for the North Atlantic Fishery Investigations in Woods Hole. In 1941, the ship was rebuilt, renamed Bellefonte and used by the U.S.…

R/V Tioga crew member Ian Hanley (far left) teaches undergraduate students (left to right) Arina Favilla (University of Miami), Emily Neel (Wellesley College), Gabriela Negrete (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Kwanza…

A group of WHOI Associates took a tour in June of the bridge of WHOI’s newest research vessel, Neil Armstrong, where Second Mate Mike Singleton showed them the surprisingly small…

Researcher Phil Alatalo (second from left) helps students aboard WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga rinse down a plankton net. Students in two undergraduate programs—the WHOI Summer Student Fellowship Program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education…

Members of the 2016 Geodynamics Seminar rest after a 12-mile hike at the terminus of Skeiðarárjökull, on the southern edge of Iceland’s largest ice cap. Each year, the seminar takes an in-depth,…

On a windy April day, Joint Program student Lei Ma (center) shows a tiny hermit crab to fellow students Kevin Archibald and Chrissy Hernandez (right) and instructor Lauren Mullineaux (left),…

WHOI’s Gary Cook (foreground) and Kip Eaton from Raytheon Corp. prepare a surface mooring for a year-long deployment in the Argentine Basin in the South Atlantic Ocean. The location is…

As long as scientists have been putting instruments in the ocean, biofouling has been a challenge confronting instrument designers. Here, WHOI technician Dan Torres recovers an acoustic doppler current profiler…

Ocean Science Journalism Fellows learn about the ecology of Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth during a 2015 field trip with WHOI biologist Annette Govindarajan (far left) and Woods Hole Sea…

Ice floes in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon come from Breiðamerkurjökull (visible in the background), one of the glaciers draining the third largest ice cap in the world. Iceland was the destination…