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Onboard the R/V Roger Revelle in March 2015, the crew that pilots and oversees the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason awaited the return of Medea, Jason‘s partner vehicle, to the ship…

Orcas (Orcinus orca), also called killer whales, hunt prey such as penguins and seals that spend some of their time out of the water. They are known to spy-hop—hold their…

In 2006, scientists at WHOI and the University of Washington discovered that cracks can form suddenly at the bottom of lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet and drain the lakes…

Every summer, up to 15 college students get to work side-by-side with WHOI researchers as part of the Partnership Education Program (PEP), a program founded by six science institutions in Woods…

An ocean glider is brought back aboard the R/V Knorr by a WHOI engineering team including (left to right) Jim Ryder, John Lund, Jeff Pietro and Aidan Alai. The glider…

Kristen Hunter-Cevera investigates abundant organisms in the ocean, a photosynthetic bacteria called Synechococcus, that are also an important food source in the marine food chain and produce a significant portion of…

Designed and built by WHOI scientists, the original vehicle Jason was launched in 1988. A more advanced, second-generation Jason (pictured) launched in 2002. Jason is a remotely operated vehicle—a tether links it to a control room on a research…

Berlinda Batista of Bridgewater State University, Ellin Rittler of University of San Francisco, and Kelly Luis of Columbia University (left to right) learn how to perform a beach survey in the…

Michael Toomey (front) and Chris Maio, of the Coastal Systems Group, provide small boat support for a coring platform, the R/V Arenaria (pictured in the distance), off the Newfoundland coast. The…

Visitors learned about the the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whale detection mooring during a public event in June 2015. The listening system allows researchers to detect the location of right…

WHOI engineers Jim Dunn (foreground) and Matt Gould test an acoustic-release float in Woods Hole Harbor. The float is packed with thousands of feet of line and designed to sit…

The deep submergence vehicle (DSV)  Aluminaut, shown at WHOI in 1961, was owned by the Reynolds Metals Co. (later Reynolds Aluminum) and operated briefly by WHOI in the early 1960s. In…

Summer Student Fellow Sara Hamilton (left) and Julie Pringle, a laboratory assistant in the Biology Department, use a seine net during a recent fieldtrip to Wood Neck Beach in Falmouth,…

During his time at WHOI as a Summer Student Fellow, William Goldsmith was occasionally seen fishing for research subjects off the Iselin dock. The summer-long program gives undergraduate students an…

Summer Student Fellow Miranda Cashman (front) and Northeastern University student Michelle O’Donnell prepare samples for a germanium gamma detector in the Coastal Systems Lab run by WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly.…