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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…

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Astrid Pacini captured a serene midnight sunset on a research cruise off Iceland in August. Pacini went as an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) watch-stander with…

Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI physical oceanographer and director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute, holds a tag line during test deployment of an expendable spar buoy (X-Spar). Clayson and senior…

WHOI engineers Mike Jakuba (left) and Molly Curran steady the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) hybrid remotely operated vehicle as it is loaded onto R/V Tioga in September for trials off…

On a recent trip Panama’s Coiba National Park led by WHOI biologist Jesús Pineda, AUV specialist Jeff Anderson and WHOI postdoctoral scholar Yogi Girdhar (left to right) deployed the SeaBED-class vehicle Jaguar…

In Tokyo, Japan this October, WHOI scientist Ken Buesseler and Japanese colleagues briefed US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy about radioactivity levels and sources in the ocean near the Fukushima…

King crabs may be an important economic marine resource in many regions, but they are also a high-level predator that, in the wrong place, can have devastating impacts on the…

In 1949, WHOI biologist William Schevill, right, and his wife Barbara Lawrence used a crude hydrophone and a dictating machine to record beluga whales from a small boat in the…

Gliders released off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters exchange in the economically important waters…

New research by scientists at WHOI and the University of California, has demonstrated that Trichodesmium (shown here), a key organism in the ocean’s food web, will start reproducing at high speed…

An ice axe is an indispensable tool for navigating on ice. Scientists often use them to probe the snow ahead to see how deep it is, to stop themselves when sliding down…

WHOI students and scientists paused for a group photo before Fairy Falls during a field trip to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The trip culminated the 2015 Geodynamics Program, a…

At sea, traditions that speak of home and loved ones take on greater meaning. In 1952, Capt. John Pike carved a Thanksgiving turkey in the wardroom aboard R/V Atlantis during a cruise from…

Jian Zhao from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) takes water samples from a CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) rosette on board the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer during a 2015 expedition off…