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WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara installs a new shroud over one of the maneuvering thrusters on the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) remotely operated vehicle. NUI is connected to pilots aboard a…

WHOI researchers Fritz Fuglister, left, and Dana Densmore inspect a bathythermograph, or BT, prior to a research cruise in 1957. BTs measure temperature and depth while being dropped from or…

In the depths of winter, it’s nice to remember when undergraduates from around the world come to Woods Hole for a summer of science by the sea. Students learn about…

Until the early 1980s, the 105-foot catamaran Lulu served as the support vessel for the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Here, engineers use a pedestal crane on the WHOI pier to conduct…

Work went on round-the-clock in the winter of 2011 during a 43-day cruise to the Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas. Bad weather, frigid temperatures, and nearly perpetual darkness can make moods…

WHOI engineer Brian Guest took this photo of icebergs at at Rothera Station, Antarctica in the summer of 2014. Guest was part of a team of scientists and technicians on…

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin served as WHOI’s second director from 1940 to 1950 and following founding director Henry Bigelow. Iselin was Bigelow’s student at Harvard and originally came to WHOI at the…

In November 2014, researchers used Alvin to position and test a deep-sea instrument called Vent-SID for the first time at a hydrothermal vent site on the East Pacific Rise. It was the latest…

This global surface mooring was deployed in September 2014 in the Irminger Sea as part of the Global Arrays component of the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative. The mooring is designed…

WHOI post-docs Liz Harvey and Tristan Horner got up close with a giant green anemone (A. xanthogrammica) at the Seattle Aquarium, when they participated in an NSF-sponsored National Network for Ocean and…

A group of WHOI Summer Student Fellows gathered for a photo during the 2014 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting held in San Francisco in December. Each of the students presented a…

In November, Jeff Lord and Sean Whelan from the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group boarded the Indian research vessel Sagar Nidhi to deploy a buoy in the Bay of Bengal equipped with…

Joanne Malkus Simpson  was the first female meteorologist to earn a doctorate. She discovered what keeps hurricanes moving forward and revealed what drives the atmospheric currents in the tropics. As a…

Inside the dark Jason control room, video screens display real-time images of the seafloor sent from the vehicle’s high-definition cameras to a pilot (foreground) who controls the vehicle with a joystick.…

Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Santiago Herrera collects tissue samples from a shrimp, one of many crustacean species collected during this May 2014 cruise to explore the Kermadec Trench near New…

Data from a ship traveling the “Oleander Line” between New York and Bermuda and from buoys revealed unusually high ocean temperatures (red) in spring and summer of 2012 along the…

The 105-meter R/V Yokosuka carrying the Shinkai 6500 submersible and operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) visited WHOI in 1994 after a joint expedition with…