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2010 WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jacob Izraelevitz and Isabella Arzeno deploy a water sampling bottle from R/V Tioga during the annual expedition on which Student Fellows learn oceanographic sampling and…

A beautiful sunset off the bow of R/V Oceanus during a cruise in June 2008. A science team aboard the Oceanus will head to the Gulf of Mexico in late…

WHOI engineer John Kemp sends the tethered vehicle CAMPER off on its final mission of the second Polar Discovery expedition. CAMPER was specially built to allow scientists to image and…

A tugboat follows another tugboat pushing a barge through Buzzards Bay, Mass. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection now requires state-dispatched tugboats to escort double-hulled tank vessels carrying 6,000 barrels…

Domenico Mussardo, a guest student from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, spent spring 2010 at WHOI working with Claudia Cenedese, who studies ocean currents with laboratory experiments using tanks…

Equipped with an $8.1 million federal Recovery Act grant and shiny, new shovels, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and…

A little goes a long way in sediment cores, but there’s not much left of this one laid out horizontally in a case. Seafloor sediment accumulates slowly as dead organisms…

Daniel Bogorff of the Subsurface Mooring Operations Group snapped this image of penguins while on the R/V Aurora Australis enroute to Casey Station in Antarctica. The focus of the expedition,…

The first buoy designed for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is loaded onto the RV Connecticut for testing ops south of Nantucket earlier this year. The OOI program is one…

WHOI senior engineer Mike Purcell briefs state officials Pat Larkin, executive director of the John Adams Innovation Institute, and Greg Bialecki, Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development, on WHOI’s…

Participants in the 2010 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) program gather on the Walsh Cottage porch for a group photo. The GFD Program, which began in 1959 at WHOI, is an…

Water-collecting cylinders called Niskin bottles stand ready, spring-loaded caps open at both ends. They are most often attached to a CTD rosette sampler–a frame holding a circle of bottles around…

To learn more about what whales do when they dive beneath the surface, scientists use a digital acoustic recording tag, or D-tag.  The small device, designed and developed at WHOI,…

Transparent as glass and just as fragile, a meter-long chain of salps loops into a crystal necklace for an Antarctic Neptune. These gelatinous animals filter food out of the ocean…

WHOI Senior Scientist Cabell Davis (left) and Joint Program graduate student Nick Loomis flank an ROV mounted with a small digital holographic camera before a rapid research trip in the…