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WHOI senior engineering assistant John Kemp got his hands (and knees) dirty in the summer of 2006 while leading the logistical effort to deploy 62 moorings for the Shallow Water…

On December 11, 1968, the Deep Submergence Vehicle Sea Cliff (DSV-4) was christened and launched at Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation for the U.S. Navy. The personnel sphere…

[From foreground to background] WHOI researchers Bill Curry and Jim Broda, as well as Rolf Ambjornsen of the Norwegian marine services company Odim, help retrieve the first sediment ever collected…

WHOI Trustee Peter Aron gets a close-up view of a penguin during a cruise with the WHOI Associates to the Sub-Antarctic Islands, Tasmania, and New Zealand in November 2005. The…

WHOI’s Acting President and Director James Luyten joins other state and federal dignitaries in announcing a $97.7 million contract to support the development, installation, and initial operation of the coastal…

Senior Engineer Ben Allen fires a canon to herald the return of research vessel Knorr as it cruised into Woods Hole after the successful first test of the ship’s new…

A global system of ocean circulation—often called the “great ocean conveyor” transports vast amounts of heat and salt around the planet via warmer surface currents (red) and colder deep currents…

[From left] Biologists Don Anderson (WHOI), Deana Erdner (University of Texas and former member of Anderson’s lab) and Robert Dickey (U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory) traveled…

While the icebreaker Oden was smashing ice and trying to push it away from the bow, the ship’s officers also kept an eye on Oden’s aft, 107.7 meters (353 feet)…

A crew member on the research vessel Kilo Moana assists in the deployment of a “clap-trap” mooring during the summer 2004 Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) project off…

Working at the WHOI dock, summer student fellow Tess Brandon (Cornell University) and WHOI engineering assistant Amy Kukulya prepare a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle for a research trip out to…

Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer (Brown University) holds a jar of juvenile crabs collected from the deep ocean floor along the East Pacific Rise. Working in the laboratory of WHOI…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Christie Wood (foreground) and postdoctoral investigator Alfredo Aretxabaleta prepare to recover the conductivity-temperature-depth rosette during the NOAA Rapid Response cruise to study red tide in…

Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) populations have been severely depleted by humans throughout most of their range. Several large spawning aggregations still exist in the western part of its range near…

Chief Scientist John Goff (center, in blue T-shirt and jeans) and other scientific staff deploy a Vibracorer off the research vessel Knorr in August 2007. Goff, a senior research scientist…

During oceanographic research cruises, it is customary for scientists to cook for the crew. Midway through this summer’s expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, chief scientist Rob Reves-Sohn found himself in…

WHOI senior engineer Jim Valdes and physical oceanographer Amy Bower inspect an innovative new carousel device designed to automatically release a yellow float when warm water eddies pass. The carousel…

The REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle works just below the surface in Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve off Belize, while the crew (Faegon Villanueva and Tyrone Lambert, from Belize; and Glen…