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The “Ocean Institutes Science Fair” at the fall 2015 Board and Corporation meeting at WHOI featured displays describing research supported by the four WHOI Ocean Institutes. Here, scientist Robert Todd…

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…

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…

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)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…