"Our Work The ocean is a vast and challenging place to work, but knowledge about the ocean is crucial to life on a changing planet. WHOI scientists and engineers travel the globe from land and the coasts to the deepest depths to tackle questions ranging from climate change to oil spills to ocean acidification. If there is no tool to do what needs to be done, we invent one; if there is no experimental method, we devise it. Because now more than ever, the ocean matters to us all...