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WHOI engineers Chris Lathan (left) and Drew Smith (right) use a hydraulic lift on R/V Atlantis to raise one of the batteries that powers the human-occupied submersible Alvin from a…

River discharge in the Northern Hemisphere summer is captured in this frame from an animation that displays average weekly runoff to the ocean from the world’s major rivers using data…

Members of WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group and the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility record and sample recently exposed layers on Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach. Here, Stephanie Madsen (right)…

Representatives from WHOI and Detyens Shipyard in Charleston, South Carolina, watch as the beefed-up A-frame and new winch of R/V Atlantis are put through their paces. The lifting equipment was strengthened to…

Fabricator Paul Keith uses a wood template to check the curve of a metal part he was shaping for use on the research submarine Alvin. The titanium piece was destined…

Typically, a common oceanographic instrument known as an eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT)  are deployed by hand from research and cargo ships to collect a variety of data including temperature and depth.…

Last Spring, a Nor’easter blew through Cape Cod and exposed the paleolithic under-layers of Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach. The Coastal Systems Group and National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility…

Four researchers sit in an inflatable boat waiting for a sperm whale to surface. From left, Michael Moore, Director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center; Andreas Fahlman, Texas A&M University;…

An unusual shape on the main deck of the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr is called a “keyhole cut out,” and it once provided deck hands a position near the bow for…

On June 22, 2012, the new personnel sphere of the research submarine Alvin underwent testing to certify that it will be safe for human occupation to depths up to 6,500…

From a small boat, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Max Kaplan stretches out to retrieve a drifter buoy from waters off Hawaii. In May 2013 Kaplan and WHOI biologist Aran Mooney…

When WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin was a high school student in China, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the city of Tangshan, killing 250,000 people. The event inspired Lin to study…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop snapped this quick self-portrait as she prepared to locate a whale tag with a VHF antenna in the spring of 2013.…

Japanese biologist, Hiroomi Miyamoto, checks on an aerosol sampler during the 2011 R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa cruise off the northeast coast of Japan near Fukushima. The sampler, which was fastened to the top…

Filmaker and explorer James Cameron (left) presented an amazing gift to WHOI in March: the 24-foot vehicle that a little over a year ago he used to reach the deepest…