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With Gratitude
Newly elected officers of the WHOI Board and Corporation presented Newt Merrill with a gift recognizing his eight years of service as chairman of the WHOI Board of Trustees. In…
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Sailing Into 2016
In a long-held tradition, WHOI personnel and well-wishers gather at the dock in Woods Hole to see off one of the ships the Institution operates as it departs on a research…
Read MoreHappy New Year
Happy New Year, to everyone from the Antarctic (where this Adelie penguin lives) to the Arctic and all points in between.(Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreDrones in the Mist
This summer, WHOI scientists, including Michael Moore, director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center, and microbiologist Amy Apprill, and colleagues from NOAA announced the use of drones as a new non-invasive…
Read MoreSeeing Voices
WHOI marine ecologist Mark Baumgartner reviews whale vocalizations on a public web site with Julianne Gurnee, an analyst with the Passive Acoustic Research Group at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center…
Read MoreDeep Partner
The submersibles DeepRover2 (pictured) and Nadir survey a field of soft corals and sponges at about 80 meters depth off Santiago Island in the Galapagos Archipelago. During a three-week expedition…
Read MoreMay the PHORCYS Be with You
Bosun Peter Liarikos signals to the winch operator on R/V Knorr as MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Jamie Collins stands by to assist. The team was deploying a device that measures…
Read MoreRoyal Celebration
In 1961 WHOI research vessel the Chain hosted Monaco’s royal family for Thanksgiving dinner. R/V Chain made port in Monaco during the American holiday and Prince Rainer and Princess Grace (formerly…
Read MoreHappy Holidays
On a warm December day, members of the WHOI staff and their families gathered at Meteor House on the Woods Hole Campus to celebrate the holidays with new President and…
Read MoreDon’t Worry, Merry Christmas
During a 2006 cruise aboard R/V Atlantis that lasted over Christmas, someone celebrated the holiday with a message painted on the side of the submersible Alvin. The note taped below the…
Read MoreHoliday Traditions
Each year in mid-December the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers take it upon themselves to spread holiday cheer throughout the Institution. An energetic and intrepid group dons their elf hats and…
Read MoreCoral Hideaway
WHOI geologist Konrad Hughen took this photo during a 2015 expedition to conduct coral reef surveys and obtain coral core samples on several reefs within the Chagos Archipelago, a small island…
Read MoreMoorings, Buoys and Fish Bites
Cody Meissner of the WHOI Mooring Lab terminates a length of wire rope for a deep-ocean mooring. Moored buoys are one tool researchers use to collect information about the oceans over…
Read MoreFertile Reef
A spine-cheek anemonefish (Premnas biaculeatus), or maroon clownfish, swims along a coral reef in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. As part of an international collaboration, WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold and researchers…
Read MoreArctic or Bust
Arctic researchers often launch their expeditions from Svalbard, Norway, where this statue of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first person to reach both poles, provides inspiration. WHOI biologist Cabell Davis…
Read MoreTough Place to Live
WHOI scientists Virginia Edgcomb and Joan Bernhard led a 2011 expedition in the Mediterranean to investigate one of earth’s harshest environments—Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHABs). These seafloor depressions hold water…
Read MoreDrag Testing
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Julie van der Hoop (left), David Morin (center) of NOAA Fisheries, and Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI, prepare to deploy gear from…
Read MoreWatching Ice
WHOI engineer Jeff O’Brien attaches an upward looking sonar (ULS) onto a mooring to prepare it for deployment earlier in 2015 as part of the thirteenth year of observations of…
Read MoreCoral RATS
WHOI geologist Pat Lohmann and MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Tom DeCarlo deploy the RATS (Robotic Analyzer of the Total carbon dioxide System) sampler from scaffolding they built between coral…
Read MoreBrave New Dive
A diver prepares to enter the waters of Vinyard Haven, Mass., from the USS Tringa in the summer of 1947. Divers at the time wore lead boots so they could…
Read MoreTurbulent Times
Brian Hogue and Sophia Merrifield assist WHOI Senior Scientist Louis St. Laurent in deploying a Vertical Microstructure Profiler (VMP) from the deck of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer during the Dynamics on Mid-Ocean…
Read MoreLeaders Then and Now
Bostwick H. “Buck” Ketchum is pictured working in jacket and tie aboard WHOI’s original Atlantis in the mid-1950s. Ketchum was an early leader in developing the field of biological oceanography…
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