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From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield looked into clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large harbor in Barnstable,…

In 1946, some 40 WHOI staff participated in work to study the effects of a nuclear blast and subsequent radiation on the ocean and marine life. From left, Arnold Clarke, Ruthann…

Rigorous discussion and free exchange of ideas were hallmarks of Henry Stommel‘s intellectual style. Here, the renown physical oceanograher engages in one such discussion with George Veronis, of Yale University.…

Ed “Catfish” Popowitz, bosun of R/V Atlantis stood on the bow of the ship as it sailed through the Straits of Magellan and passed the wreck of the Captain Leonidas. The Leonidas ran aground while…

Bill Schevill, right, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics after World War II, but when Bill Watkins, left, joined him in Woods Hole in 1958, they began what former…

Fish swim amid this vibrant community of tubeworms around hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near the East Pacific Rise. The fish are zoarcids—predators that eat tubeworms, crabs, and other animals living…

Benjamin Birner, a 2013 WHOI Summer Student Fellow prepares sediment samples in the NIRVANA clean room at WHOI. Birner measured the sediments radiogenic isotopic composition in hopes of identifying how certain…

This heady view of the Chuchki Sea comes from aboard the US Coast Guard cutter Healy, which hosted scientists aboard the Arctic Spring research cruise in 2014. Among other science…

Long-time WHOI Board chairman Noel McLean spoke during the 1980 Associates Dinner dedication of the laboratory building named after him that was built to house geoscience laboratories along with a…

A special, thick-walled tank permits guest investigator Sheng-Qi Zhou from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, China, to observe mixing processes under the pressures experienced deep in the…

In the 1950s, WHOI biologist Bill Schroeder chartered the Captain Bill II so he could collect and study fish off the Northeast Coast. Here, Schroeder displays a deep-sea fish called chimaera.…

As part of the TREET (Transforming Remotely Conducted Research Through Ethnography, Education & Rapidly Evolving Technologies) program, early-career scientists and undergraduate students learned how to use telepresence technology during a…

Jimmy Bramante, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, collected a core sample from an Atlantic white cedar tree in Cape Cod National Seashore recently. Tree growth is often…

There are few observations of ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Southern Hemisphere outside the tropics, yet the Southern Ocean plays a critical role in Earth’s climate and the stability of the…

The temperature was -39°F when WHOI engineers John Kemp and Kris Newhall (pictured) and colleagues set up camp on a Beaufort Sea ice floe in March 2014. They were there…

On October 16, 1968, at the beginning of Dive 308, two steel cables supporting Alvin‘s lowering cage parted. The sub plunged about 15 feet (4.5 meters), then bobbed to the…

In March 2011 one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded shook Japan, creating a tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and resulted in the largest unintentional release…