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Reporting to the Group Operations Leader, this position provides day to day administrative support for the Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) within the WHOI Marine Operations Department. Limited administrative support for SSSG-related teams is also required (Winch Pool Facility, Pressure Test Facility, Dive Office, Marine Operations Finance Group, etc.).   Working closely with department personnel, this position will be the primary contact for all SSSG administrative items:  

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently searching for a Senior Desktop Support Analystto join the Information Services Department. This is a regular, full-time, non-exempt position, and is eligible for full benefits.   The Senior Desktop Support Analyst is a senior member of the End User Technology Systems team within the Information Services department. This position uses advanced information technology...

At Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), our mission is to understand the ocean for our planet and our future.  In pursuit of this aspiration are some of the most world’s most talented ocean scientists and engineers who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge about the ocean to reveal its impact on our planet and our lives.  If you would like to support the people who go to impossible places to do impossible things, you can be part of making a difference.  The Development Office is looking for an organized, proactive, team-oriented, problem-solving administrative professional to support our Corporate and Foundation Relations team as Sr. Administrative Assistant...

  The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is seeking a passionate, innovative, and strategic leader to serve in a dual role, as the Director of Research Data and Library Services at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). The Library is operated jointly by the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and provides information resource services to four affiliate organizations: the United  States Geological Survey (USGS) Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, the Sea  Education Association (SEA), The Woodwell Climate Research Center (WCRC), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is currently searching for a Postdoctoral Investigator to join the Physical Oceanography Department. This is a full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits. The Postdoc will be initially awarded for one year with an extension granted for one or more years based on progress and performance.    Ocean margins is highly productive and play an important role in the global carbon cycle. The postdoc will participate in the Ocean Margins...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is currently searching for a Postdoctoral Investigator to join the Marine Chemsitry and Geochemistry Department. This is a full-timel, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits.   The Postdoc will be initially awarded for one year with an extension granted for one or more years based on progress and performance. 

We are looking to hire a highly motivated and independent scientist for a Postdoctoral Investigator position in the Pachiadaki laboratory of the Biology department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The postdoctoral position is part of projects funded by the NSF and the Simons Foundation to understand microbial ecology and evolution in oxygen-depleted marine environments. Oxygen depletion alters cycling of major elements (especially carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur) as well as food web functionality. Our lab participates in an international effort to address major gaps in our...

You will join a group committed to advancing the performance and reliability of Ocean-Bottom Seismographs (OBS) in order to support discovery of the earth’s internal structure and its dynamic processes such as earthquake faulting and volcanism. Advances in datalogger performance, autonomous timing, acoustic and optical telemetry, and the availability of new low-power, low-noise seismic sensors provide the opportunity to design a new generation of OBS with greater capability and longer recording durations.

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is seeking a Welder to join the Facilities Department. Reporting to the Mechanical Shop Supervisor, this position performs a wide variety of welding and metal fabrication related tasks for all Institution facilities, including research vessels.  Performs complex welding, cutting, and brazing work in the contstruction or repair of mechanical equipment. This is a regular full-time, non-exempt position and is eligible for benefits.

Job summary - Assists the Department Chair with recruitment, appointment, and promotion of Department staff (i.e. scientific, technical, non-exempt, adjunct, and guest investigators); tracks staffs’ position timelines and requirements, compiles confidential application and promotion materials, and coordinates the operation of Departmental search committees. - Assists Department Chair and Department Administrator with special projects and preparation of complex reports/documents. - Tracks e-mail correspondence to the Chair, monitoring the account and, where appropriate, responding on behalf of the...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is seeking an effective Administrative Assistant to join The Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering (AOPE) Department and to provide day-to-day administrative support for the Department Office and scientific and engineering staff.   The successful candidate will be part of a group responsible for appointments and promotions, space management and general office functions for the department and will play a key role in insuring that administrative needs of busy technical teams are accomplished...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently searching for a Research Associate to join the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department in the Chemical Sensors Lab. This is a temporary, casual, non-exempt position, and is eligible for casual benefits.  This job runs from May through September.  The internal working title for this position can be Research Associate I or Research Associate...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently searching for an Engineer Technician to join the Oceanographic Systems Lab (OSL). This is a full time/non-exempt position and is eligible for benefits.This position will provide direct operational and technical engineering support to the development and employment of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV’s) at WHOI and around the world.   These REMUS vehicles are designed at OSL and heavily utilized by the science and military community with field projects or science survey cruises ranging from a week to several months.   Shoreside responsibilities include the...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently searching for a Postdoctoral Investigator in the area of environmental dissolved metabolomics to join the  Kujawinski Lab of the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department. This is a temporary, full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits. The initial appointment will be for one year with the possibility of a one-year extension. Review of applications will begin May 15, 2024 and continue until the position is filled. Inquiries should be addressed to ekujawinski@whoi.edu.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is seeking a Pre- and Post-Award Administrator to work in the Physical Oceanography (PO) Department. This is a regular, full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for full benefits. The Administrator will be responsible for working with Principal Investigators (PIs) and staff to manage pre- and post-award processes. Administrative support and financial management will include working with a portfolio (PIs), working on the full lifecycle of awards from proposal submissions through post-award activities, and ensuring compliance with agencies and institutional regulations, policies, terms, and conditions. Working within a world-renowned organization, the work is fast-paced and complex and...

The Physical Oceanography Department is currently searching for an ocean Research Assisant II - Ocean Observation Analyst to join their team. This is a regular, full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits.   Argo (www.argo.ucsd.edu) is a global array of autonomous instruments monitoring the oceans in real time. The WHOI Argo Team based in the Physical Oceanography Department is in need of an Ocean Observation Analyst and Manager to be hired at an Research Assistant II level.  The role is to analyze, visualize...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is currently searching for a Postdoctoral Investigator to join the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department. This is a regular, full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits. The initial appointment will be for one year with the possibility of a one-year extension, contingent on additional funding and performance.   WHOI...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is searching for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Embedded Systems Engineer to join the Oceanographic Systems Lab (OSL) within the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department (AOPE). This is a regular full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits.     OSL is a world leader in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) technology and operation in many complex oceanographic environments. ...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is searching for a Postdoctoral Investigator to join the Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Department. This is a temporary, full-time, exempt position, and is eligible for benefits. The appointment duration is 18 months (with potential extension to 24 months). Start date is flexible in the first quarter of 2024.   The postdoctoral investigator will focus on fundamental research related to ocean acoustics, with a main focus on developing or using numerical inverse methods to estimate seabed geoacoustic properties when considering acoustic...