Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Launches Image Library

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has announced WHOI ImageSource, an online image library that contains images spanning 75 years of ocean exploration. At the moment the library contains 36,000 images but many more are being added every week. You can check it out at http://www.whoi.edu/ims. Though you'll see a login page when you get there, you can browse the publicly-accessible libraries by logging in as guest with a password of guest.

Searching is by simple keyword or by metadata; not all images have metadata and I'd stick to keywords. A keyword search for coral found 29 results, ten to a page -- lovely underwater photography. Click on a picture and you get a slightly larger picture (with WHOI WHOI WHOI watermarks on it) and metadata including date picture was taken, keywords, notes, and credit line.

Unlike many image libraries you do not get a still-larger picture of the image just by clicking on the one on the image information page. Instead, click on the "View High-Resolutions" link on the left nav to get a popup window with an a) slightly larger image with b) the WHOI watermarks intact.

Posted to Science-Oceanography