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Dr. Susan Avery (at the lectern) answers questions from staff and students in October 2007 just hours after being introduced as the new president and director of the Woods Hole…

Sunrise over the Bay of Fundy is framed by a chock (through which mooring lines are passed) in the deck of the research vessel Oceanus. (Photo by Alexander Dorsk, Woods…

Summer Student Fellow Andy Ho—who worked in a WHOI Biology lab with Bruce Woodin and John Stegeman in 2007—works to isolate RNA from Fundulus heteroclitus found in New Bedford Harbor…

WHOI President and Director Jim Luyten (center) accepts the best wishes and a gift of appreciation from the Institution’s trustees during a January 2008 meeting in New York City. Luyten…

WHOI engineers—[left to right] Andy Billings, Griff Outlaw, and Rod Catanach—prepare to test the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle off of the coastal research vessel Tioga in December 2007. After several…

A cluster of Tevnia jerichonana tubeworms sprout from a “sandwich”—an artificial colonization surface made of the non-toxic plastic lexan. The sandwich was recovered from the seafloor after spending 11 months…

Just off the WHOI pier, ice crowds Great Harbor in Woods Hole on January 27, 1945. Penzance Point looms in the background. (Photo courtesy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…

Marine chemist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink prepares to enter the PicoTrace clean laboratory, which was built to offer scientists a contamination-free environment for analysis of ultra-trace-elements in their samples. The mobile, state-of-the-art,…

The research submersible Alvin is lifted off of its sled and track as it is deployed from the R/V Atlantis in November 2007. The track system helps keep the 17-ton…

Grey seals congregate and relax on Billingsgate Shoal, near Wellfleet, Mass. WHOI biologists Andrea Bogomolni and Michael Moore have joined colleagues in screening seals and other marine animals and their…

The freshly painted bow of the research vessel Knorr gleams in the sunlight at the Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Fla.,  in 2005. The ship was hauled out for deck…

WHOI engineers Bob Brown and Tito Collasius (right) check the fit of the yellow outer skin over the lifting eye of the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle. In development and testing…

WHOI engineer John Kemp, head of deck operations during the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition, supervises Camper’s deployment off the fantail of Oden. The towed vehicle was mobilized to find  the…

WHOI engineer John Kemp (left) and oceanographer Peter Winsor make their way down the food line on the icebreaker Oden. On the Swedish icebreaker, the gravy train usually starts with…

Skylar Bayer—a guest student in the WHOI Biology Department and a 2007 summer student fellow—is dwarfed by the expansive Pacific Ocean and the A-frame on the fantail of the research…

Maria Tausendfreund takes a water sample from a melt pond on top of an Arctic ice floe, which she will later analyze for microbes living in it. The graduate student…

Josh Burton, a research assistant in the WHOI-operated National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (NOSAMS) facility adjusts the valves on a water-stripping vacuum line that removes dissolved inorganic carbon from…