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WHOI engineer Jennifer Batryn (right) and Raytheon engineer Edward Colgan prepare pH sensors on a surface mooring for deployment from the R/V Neil Armstrong at the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Pioneer…

Biologist Phil Alatalo (middle) assists Summer Student Fellow Chloe Wang (left) of Haverford College as she opens up the base of a gravity core during the annual summer cruise for…

University of Miami student Julia Paine prepares sediment samples from Canada’s Fraser River for analysis in WHOI’s Plasma Mass Spectrometry Facility. By measuring concentrations of strontium isotopes—radioactive chemical forms of the element—in the…

WHOI scientists Adam Soule and Mark Kurz prepare to climb into the submersible Alvin for a dive to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge seafloor during the 2016 Popping Rocks expedition aboard the…

On an endless summer day in 2007, WHOI scientists gathered at the gateway to the Arctic Ocean in Longyearbyen (population 1,800), the largest settlement on the Norwegian island of Svalbard,…

The Johanna Kristina, a ferry and cargo ship that services villages in southeastern Greenland, struggled through an unusually heavy concentration of sea ice in the Sermilik Fjord in 2015. The…

It would be difficult to mistake Woods Hole, Mass., for any other seaside town in New England. Instead of t-shirt shops and ice cream stores (though those exist here), buildings…

Stanford microbiologist Anne Dekas works from the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island to lead a team of scientists participating in the first leg of an Alvin training cruise…

This is Kviárjökull, a glacier of the Vatnajökull Ice Cap in Iceland. Frequent volcanic eruptions in Iceland sprinkle a lot of black debris on glaciers’ white surfaces. Sometimes the glaciers’…

The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program bring undergraduates to WHOI to learn more about ocean science, attend lectures by Woods Hole scientists, and…

Sometimes lying down on the job is a good thing. One of the features of the new research vessel Neil Armstrong is the fact that its A-frame, the large gray hoist…

How do you approach the subject of your research if it is the largest animal in the ocean (and on the planet)? Very carefully—and from the air as well as…

Engineers Jason Kapit and Anna Michel test a laser spectrometer designed to detect changing levels of methane in the atmosphere. The system shoots a laser beam between two points in…

It wouldn’t be summer in Woods Hole without this annual ritual photo on the front porch of the humble Walsh Cottage on the WHOI campus, documenting this year’s Geophysical Fluid…

Harry Burnett, steward on R/V Neil Armstrong, answered questions from a group of people touring the ship during WHOI’s recent “Welcome Home Armstrong” public event. Burnett is in charge of ‘hospitality’…