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Christian Begler of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography deploys a pressure-and-inverted echo sounder (PIES) as a part of the German-led Meridional Overturning Variability Experiment (MOVE). The MOVE group joined WHOI…

Able-bodied seaman Leo Fitz peers out from the controls of the crane on the research vessel Oceanus during an October 2007 cruise in the North Atlantic. Fitz and other members…

On April 23, the outreach team of WHOI’s Polar Discovery web expeditions reached the farthest tip of inhabited land in North America Canadian Forces Station Alert. Today, exactly seven months…

MIT/WHOI graduate student Ari Shapiro takes a break from listening to the vocalizations of narwhals. His computer screen shows a spectrogram—a plot of sound frequency versus time— of one of…

Bosun Peter Liarikos works with the “dog dish” so named for its shape on the new long-coring instrument on the research vessel Knorr. The dog dish contains all of the…

WHOI science writer Mike Carlowicz interviews NOAA scientist Sigrid Salo during a flight from Resolute Bay, Canada, to Canadian Forces Station Alert. Along for the flight to Alert were (back…

Konrad Hughen, a paleoclimatologist in the WHOI Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, recently worked with archaeologist and anthropologists to show that Neanderthals probably did not die out from an…

This “colonial” jelly a siphonophore of the Rosacea genus was spied in April 2006 by divers in the blue waters of the Sargasso Sea during a Census of Marine Zooplankton…

Students Jinbo Wang (left) and Evgeny Logvinov help conduct a Rossby wave experiment in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory as part of a graduate course. Red dye was injected into…

WHOI seafloor geologist Dan Fornari and then-graduate student Tracey Gregg inspect a portion of a lava pillar that was generated during a 1991 eruption on the East Pacific Rise (EPR).…

Despite their lumbering appearance, manatees are graceful swimmers and to many, a vanishing symbol of wild Florida. Researchers from WHOI and several science and conservation institutions hope digital tags, or…

The lights are on, but (almost) nobody’s home on a Saturday night in Woods Hole in March 2007. From left to right stand the Candle House and Visitor Center of…

Researchers and technicians from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration boarded and refurbished the “Middle Atlantic” buoy of the National Data Buoy Center network during an April 2007 expedition. WHOI…

Able seaman Ronnie Whims, part of the crew of the research vessel Oceanus, plucks out a tune on his guitar while resting on the ship’s port-side deck near a Craib…

Senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group adjusts and services the instruments atop a deep-ocean moored buoy on October 27, 2007. The research vessel Ronald…