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Biologist Alfred Redfield in his lab, circa 1955. Redfield joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931 and was Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. His broad marine research…

Aboard the R/V Knorr in the Hudson Strait, engineer John Kemp (left), Knorr Bosun Pete Liarikos (right), and Dara Tebo of the Physical Oceanography department, work to recover a mooring.…

Senior engineering assistant William Ostrom tests a stretch hose that will be utilized on moorings and buoys for the Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI). The specially designed cable, which stretches like…

The crew aboard the R/V Atlantis extended a helping hand to a fishing vessel in distress off the coast of Peru on Jan. 20, 2010. The vessel, the Peruvian long…

Amy Bower, of the WHOI Physical Oceanography department, gives a tour of the R/V Oceanus to a group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind. Bower, who is…

Water in the ocean is always on the move, with big currents flowing like rivers in different directions and at different layers in the sea. These ocean currents help carry…

Edward H. Smith (right) WHOI director from 1950 to 1956, greets Crawford master David Casiles upon the ship’s arrival in Woods Hole in 1956. Smith spent 40 years in the…

Stacked plastic plates, called “sandwiches” (left), used as artificial substrates for larvae of vent animals. As part of the research project LADDER (Larval Dispersal on the Deep East Pacific Rise),…

Valletta, Malta, was among the ports Atlantis (right) visited during “the Med cruise,” a six-month, 1948 cruise to the Mediterranean Sea. The cruise was funded by the Hydrographic Office and…

The first buoy designed for the Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) undergoes testing at the dock. Holding the lines to steady the suspended buoy are senior engineer Tim Scholz, left, and…

The USCG Campbell towing Balanus Circa 1948. Balanus was part of the WHOI fleet from 1946 to 1950. It was a rather uncomfortable craft that biologist Gordon Riley said was…

A single-celled organism has eaten bacteria, which are easily visible because they were treated with green dye. Some bacteria can live within organisms, waiting to be released back into the…

Photographer Dave Owen rigging up his camera system on deck of Atlantis. Owen conducted extensive deep-sea camera operations on many expeditions, including three cruises between 1972 and 1974 near the…

Postdoctoral Investigator Sarah Cooley (right), of the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry department, leads a group of teachers through a classroom laboratory exercise exploring ocean acidification and its effects on marine…

The WHOI-operated deep-sea vehicle ABE systematically tracked over the seafloor on the volcanic Mid-Atlantic Ridge, midway between Africa and South America, photographing the ocean bottom. Some 3,000 overlapping photos were…

The principal developers of the salinometer —Karl Schleicher, right, and Alvin Bradshaw— are at work with their first model, in the mid-1950s, in the main lab of the research vessel…

A beautiful, winter sunset casts an amber glow on the R/V Oceanus docked at the WHOI pier in January 2010. Oceanus is the North Atlantic workhorse of the WHOI-UNOLS fleet,…

Over the past two years, WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito and his colleagues at J.C. Venter Institute have been studying life at the bottom of the food chain in Antarctica.…

Research Assistant Skye Moret-Ferguson of the Geology & Geophysics department prepares a core for analysis in the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanner. The scanner, which produces nondestructive, high-resolution elemental analysis,…