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Research associate Alexi Shalapyonok, mechanic Brian Durante, and engineer Hugh Popenoe prepare to seal a pressure chamber they are using to test a penetrator that will become part of the…

The Synergy project at the Museum of Science in Boston until June 2 highlights works of art created by artists paired with ocean scientists. Anastasia Azure collaborated with WHOI oceanographer Larry…

Doug Mendes (left) and Brian Pepin inspect one of Alvin‘s eight ballast tanks during the continuing overhaul and upgrade of the human-occupied vehicle. They were looking for any signs of…

WHOI researchers called the edge of a Greenland glacier home for seven weeks during a 2008 expedition funded by the WHOI Arctic Research Initiative. Maya Bhatia and colleagues revealed in Nature…

Sean Kelly (left), Justin Fujii (foreground), and Hannah Baker performed a series of tests with the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry on the WHOI dock in February. Engineers and technicians…

It took about 400 gallons of primer and paint to spiffy up two WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis and Knorr,  during several weeks of ship maintenance in 2012 in Charleston, South…

Postdoctoral scholar Liz Douglass (left) and chief scientist Ruth Curry recover a CTD  rosette during a cruise aboard RV Knorr in the North Atlantic in 2011. The cruise was part…

Until the early 1980s, the 105-foot catamaran Lulu served as the support vessel for the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Here, engineers use a pedestal crane on the WHOI pier to…

R/V Knorr passed the Steamship Authority freight vessel Sankaty in Woods Hole Channel on its way to the port of Cape Town, South Africa, in February 2013. Although it was…

Scientist Ellie Bors (left) and artist Laurie Kaplowitz stand in a gallery at the Museum of Science in Boston before a triptych of wall-length paintings they collaborated to create. The…

Joe Harvey carefully measures a large piece of syntactic foam before cutting it. The foam, which is made of tiny glass bubbles embedded in epoxy, provides buoyancy for the human…

Seals like this one photographed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment (SIPEX-II) in Antarctica, depend on sea ice to survive. They hunt for food, such as fish and krill, under…

WHOI engineering assistant Ben Pietro puts the third and final coat of paint on the “sail” of Alvin, the country’s only deep-diving human occupied vehicle. When it is in position…

In February, mechanics Monir Garcia (left) and Allen Bell (right) from Hawthorne Caterpillar came to Woods Hole to complete a major overhaul of R/V Atlantis‘s engines. The ship’s engines go…