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Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Robert Laird directs the launching of a CTD rosette aboard R/V Atlantis in 2012 during a cruise led by Patricia Yager of the University…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Jill McDermott processes samples from hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Cayman Rise on the Caribbean seafloor during an expedition in 2012. Discovered in 2009, some of these…

In the early 1990s, marine biologist Cindy Van Dover began piloting the deep-submergence vehicle Alvin in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, eventually completing 48 dives to nearly all known hydrothermal vent…

On Tuesday, a tugboat nudged the research vessel Knorr out of Montevideo, Uruguay, to start a 45-day expedition. WHOI marine chemist Liz Kujawinski and colleagues will study the role of dissolved organic matter (DOM)…

Coring technician Ellen Roosen (white hat) steadies a multicore while ordinary seaman Richard Barnes assists as the instrument is lifted off the deck of R/V Atlantis in preparation for deployment.…

A camera attached to the bottom of a multicore caught this view of seafloor organisms and a pink dumbo octopus right before the instrument reached the bottom. A multicore drives…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Alec Bogdanoff (top), student intern Anna Hadartz (center), third mate Mike Chretian (right) and WHOI engineer Ken Decoteau (bottom) return to R/V Knorr after recovering a yellow Slocum…

WHOI technicians John Kemp (blue hat) and Jim Ryder (red hat) work with two Coast Guard crewmen from the ice breaker Healy to deploy a “long-ranger” acoustic doppler current profiler…

What happens on the deck and over the side of a research vessel happens under the watchful eyes of the bosun. Ever since R/V Atlantis sailed on its maiden voyage…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Cara Manning collects a water sample for noble gas analysis aboard the R/V Tioga in December 2012. Cara and her advisor, Rachel Stanley, installed a portable noble…

WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield (left) aboard WHOI’s first research ship Atlantis, was fond of telling this story about the second day of his first Atlantis cruise: “[T]here was a pretty…

WHOI researchers Paul Henderson (left) and Matt Charette prepare to enter a cenote, or natural sinkhole, near Puerto Morelos, Mexico. The limestone bedrock in this region is very porous, with…

Most oceanographic survey instruments look down at the seafloor. On a recent trip to the Southern Ocean, though, members of Hanu Singh’s lab equipped one of their SeaBED vehicles to…

Vic Miller pulls an exhaust duct into place to vacuum up the resin dust left after he and fellow mechanic Joe Harvey sanded a large piece of syntactic foam. The…

People living near rivers can become “citizen scientists” to aid research focusing on Earth’s river systems in a time of changing climate. Leaders of the Global Rivers Observatory Project—WHOI chemist…

WHOI research specialist Daniel Torres, dressed for cold even in August, watches wire pay out from a winch to deploy a mooring in the ocean off Norway. Torres was aboard…

On a 2012 research cruise in Antarctica, WHOI postdoctoral scientist Peter Kimball helped use the robotic vehicle Jaguar to map the underside of the ice. But the trip was memorable…