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Stephen R. Okkonen of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Guest Investigator Robert Campbell from the University of Rhode Island deploy a conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD)…

The R/V Knorr steams away from the coast of Cape Dyer, Baffin Island—the largest island in Canada—in October 2009. The ship was in the area to recover a series of…

WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito snapped this image of two Emperor penguins while working in Antarctica in November 2009. Over the past two years, Saito and his colleagues have shared…

R/V Knorr bosun Pete Liarikos and University of Washington engineer Eric Boget move a mooring anchor into position for deployment as part of the Arctic Gateways program. The anchors, which…

For his graduate research, WHOI postdoctoral investigator Jonathan Blythe studied the intertidal barnacle Semibalanus balanoides at Gardiner Beach in Woods Hole. He focused on the transition between the larval and…

Able-Bodied Seaman Mike Singleton (in silhouette) on board the R/V Knorr keeps lookout as Captain Kent Sheasley prepares to dock the ship at the WHOI pier following a month of…

Leaving the chilly coast of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, the R/V Knorr heads for the warmer waters of Hawaii in July 2009. Built in 1969 and delivered to Woods Hole the…

WHOI Researcher Philip Alatalo, left, and Guest Investigator Robert Campbell from the University of Rhode Island deploy a Tucker Trawl in an effort to catch krill during a recent cruise…

With a wake of broken ice straight behind the ship, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy heads home after a 38-day expedition to study how climate change is affecting the…

In this Dec. 17 snapshot of activity in the Marine Research Facility Necropsy Lab, researchers investigate the body of a common dolphin that died the day before in Harwich. The animal…

Greenland — the world’s largest island — is also home to one of the world’s largest ice sheets (after Antarctica). If Greenland’s two-mile-thick ice sheet melts completely, it would ultimately…

This small boat harbor is located in one of the fjords at Nuuk, Greenland, near where the R/V Knorr was docked in preparation for a cruise around Greenland. The mountain…

Salps—transparent organism that range from 0.5 to five inches long—are the subject of MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Kelly Rakow Sutherland’s PhD dissertation. Observing them in their habitat off the Pacific…

A barge may be an unconventional platform for oceanographic mooring work, but members of the Physical Oceanography and Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering departments  — John Kemp, Jim Ryder, Paul…

A marine science technician aboard the iceabreaker USCG Healy pushes a conductivity/ temperature/depth (CTD) recorder during a spring 2009 research cruise to study the Bering Sea ecosystem.  A CTD is…