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Oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy soaks up the sun after a successful expedition in the North Atlantic in 2005.  McGillicuddy was recently selected by his peers to be the 2008 recipient of…

Richard “Dick” Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the…

WHOI biologists Heidi Sosik and Melissa Patrician pause for a picture in the midst of unloading their gear from a survey cruise on the research vessel Tioga to the Martha’s…

A pod of dolphins escort the research vessel Atlantis (with its bow casting a shadow on the water) through the Pacific Ocean in 2006. (Photo by Anton Zafereo, Woods Hole…

This whale bone—from the collection at the New Bedford Whaling Museum—was examined by WHOI biologist Michael Moore and colleagues to help determine if whales can get “the bends,” also known…

Buck Ketchum prepares to deploy a water-sampling bottle, circa 1970. Ketchum was associated with WHOI for 40 years and was a leader in the development of biological oceanography. His research…

Working in the recently renovated Coastal Research Laboratory at WHOI, engineering assistant Paul Fraser puts finishing touches on a surface buoy that will be later deployed in Massachusetts waters for…

A mechanical arm on the Alvin submersible reaches out for a sample from a “black smoker” hydrothermal vent along the East Pacific Rise. Black smokers are so named because they…

Geochemist Stan Hart examines data with MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Rhea Workman (now a researcher at the University of Hawaii). Hart was recently announced as the winner of the Arthur…

Engineers on research vessel Atlantis spend up to eight months a year at sea while maintaining the ship’s electrical and mechanical components. The diligence of the ship’s crew makes scientific expeditions…

Kristin Pangallo, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, flame-seals a test tube while preparing samples for the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (NOSAMS) in February 2006. Located…

Ann Devenish and Ellen Levy (right) emerge from the forest of shelves in the MBL/WHOI data library and archives (DLA). The library holds more than 34,700 cataloged items—everything from technical…

The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is raised onto the research vessel Kilo Moana after testing in the waters off Hawaii. The new vehicle which pushes the limits of…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Karin Lemkau holds a peice of an oil-stained plate that was collected from the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. Lemkau is assisting WHOI chemist Chris Reddy…

The deep submergence vehicle (DSV) Aluminaut, shown here in 1966, was owned by the Reynolds Metals Co. (later Reynolds Aluminum) but it played a critical role in WHOI history. In…