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WHOI researchers and engineers deployed an X-Spar (expendable spar) buoy for sea trials in June 2015. Made of low-cost components like commercial plastic tubing and modified, commonplace sensors, X-Spar buoys…

The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry awaits recovery during the MESH (Mapping, Exploration, Sampling at Havre) research cruise in the spring of 2015. Capable of diving and surveying the seafloor at depths…

Following completion of successful acceptance trials, the nation’s newest research vessel, the Neil Armstrong, was officially turned over by the U.S. Navy on September 23, 2015, to WHOI, which will…

WHOI gets its share of visits from politicians and dignitaries over the course of the year, but few with this many titles on his CV. This summer, former Congressman, New…

During a recent visit, Vice Admiral Tom Rowden USN is briefed by senior engineer Peter Brickley about glider and Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) operations in the Coleman and Susan Burke…

WHOI recently celebrated a special anniversary on the Woods Hole campus—the 250th birthday of  Challenger House. The WHOI “Tunes at Noon” ensemble provided entertainment and Smitty’s Ice Cream provided the…

WHOI engineer Larry George keeps the top of an expendable spar buoy (X-Spar) away from the side of the ship during a test deployment this summer. The X-Spar is a…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sarah Rosengard converts organic carbon to carbon dioxide by slowly increasing its temperature from room temperature to 800°C (1,470°F) at WHOI’s National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS)…

Megan Behnke, a senior from St. Olaf College (left), and Lina Davidson, a junior from Barnard College got up close with the human-occupied submersible Alvin during its current maintenance period in Woods…

In a recent study, WHOI scientists found that single-celled marine phytoplankton like these Melosira sp. can release “infochemicals” that signal marine bacteria to rev up their metabolisms and decompose phytoplankton…

Rip currents pose a threat to public safety, so officials are interested in ways to predict when and where they form, but it’s difficult to study the dynamic and intermittent…

Maggie Capooci from the University of Scranton spent her time as a WHOI Summer Student Fellow evaluating how marsh ecosystems respond to restoration of tidal connectivity. Under-sized culverts beneath roads…

These marine snails are called pteropods (from the Greek words meaning “wing foot”) or “sea butterflies” because of their winglike swimming appendages. Masses of pteropods drift with currents in the…

The Nereid Under Ice (NUI) vehicle is launched from the Alfred Wegener Institute’s ice-breaker Polarstern during an expedition in July of 2014. NUI is remotely operated by pilots aboard a surface…

A surface buoy is prepared for deployment from the R/V Knorr. The buoy contains communications equipment and serves as flotation for a Coastal Surface Mooring in the Pioneer Array. The…