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MIT-WHOI Joint Program alumnus and MIT professor Franz Hover stands in his Marine Robotics Lab surrounded several autonomous vehicles used by his current Joint Program students: Brooks Reed, Pedro Teixeira,…

The past year marked the christening of WHOI’s next research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong, shown here just after it was launched in March. The coming year is expected to see the…

Columbia University student Maya Becker, a 2014 WHOI Summer Student Fellow, and WHOI instructors prepare a Niskin water sampler, on a boat trip the fellows took to learn about basic oceanographic…

Scientists and crew aboard the research vessel Knorr deployed a sediment net trap on a 2012 cruise in the North Atlantic to collect particles sinking from the sea surface. The…

Sound generators sit on R/V Knorr‘s deck, heading to the subpolar Atlantic in summer 2014. A group of scientists involved in the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program, including…

Lily Helfrich, a student at Northwestern University and a native of Falmouth, Mass., came back to Woods Hole for the 2014 WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program. On the annual student…

Preservation bags and vials sit ready for samples on a lab bench during a 2014 cruise aboard the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. Biologists on the cruise were looking at the…

R/V Knorr returned to Woods Hole on December 16 after its final cruise as a member of the U.S. oceanographic fleet to a group of holiday-themed well-wishers. Since 1970, Knorr has traveled…

Dan Chamberlain and Margaret DiGiorno, visiting students from Northeastern University working in the lab of WHOI scientist Jeff Donnelly, split a sediment core from Blackmore Pond, a coastal pond in…

Each year in mid-December the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers don their elf hats and jog through every buiding on WHOI’s two campuses, jingling bells and proclaiming holiday cheer to all…

Andy Bowen, director of the National Deep Submergence Facility at WHOI, right, showed off the Institution’s newest underwater vehicle, Nereid Under Ice, (NUI) to Admiral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations. Greenert visited…

An Easter Island moai casts its gaze on a visitor, the research vessel Knorr anchored off the port of Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui, in the early 1990s. The ship that found…

Dan Chamberlain, a visiting student from Northeastern University working in WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly’s lab, examines a coastal pond sediment core that he split in half to expose layers of mud and…

Carbon makes the world go around. It is the building block of life on Earth, and in the form of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere, it has a powerful…

In September 2013 WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler traveled with a group of Japanese colleagues to the northeastern coast of Japan within one kilometer (one-half mile) of the damaged nuclear…

WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak and guest student Kelsey Gosselin had to clear ice from a frozen pond in Rowley, Mass., last month to get access to the water and mud…