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John Kemp powerwashes mooring spheres after their recovery from the Arctic Ocean. The spheres were part of moorings deployed in the Beaufort Gyre for circulation studies in 2005. (Photo by…

Tetjana Ross (in red) and Andone Lavery preparing to do a profile with a fast-response temperature-conductivity probe, which characterizes the double-diffusive interface. Lab experiments like this enable scientists to better understand…

A ctenophore (pronounced teen-o-fore), or comb jelly, is a  transparent jelly-like animal often spherical or bell-shaped. When light strikes the eight rows of comb-like paddles used for movement, it is…

Hoisting a piston tube off R/V Atlantis (circa 1949). Collection of sediment samples from the seafloor with various types of coring devices began in the 1930s and continues today.  More…

Research Vessel Atlantis, May 1997. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

R/V Atlantis Steward Carl Wood leaps from DSV Alvin during a recent launch of the sub. Swimmers help secure the vehicle for each launch and recovery. (Photo by Amy Nevala,…

Sulphur coated the frame on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason during a recent cruise to the western Pacific.  Jason captured close-up images of volcanic eruptions and was bathed in…

Ian Hanley prepares the 60-foot R/V Tioga for arrival during a break in mooring recovery operations on the Merrimack River. (Photo by James Kent, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Crabs cover the sample basket on the front of DSV Alvin during 2002 dives near Patton Seamount in the Gulf of Alaska. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Dennis McGillicuddy (left) and Cabell Davis with a video plankton recorder (VPR) designed to work on the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. The VPR is an underwater video microscope system that…

The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Searover is deployed off the starboard side of the polar research vessel Nathaniel Palmer near Alexander Island, Antarctica. Searover captured video imagery underneath the ice…

Deployment of an underwater camera off R/V Atlantis(circa 1948). Maurice Ewing and his  student Allyn Vine produced the first photographs of the deep seafloor in 1940 during seismic experiments aboard Atlantis,…

Ken Rand and Diego Mello (foreground) work on the deck of R/V Oceanus during an April 2006 cruise in the Northwest Atlantic. The pair helped recover moorings as part of operations…

Panorama of the sample preparation lab for radiocarbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at WHOI. An addition completed in 2004  houses a newly designed…

A CTD (bottom) with rosette for conductivity/temperature/depth measurements is readied for deployment from R/V Oceanus during a winter 2005 cruise to study circulation in continental shelf and slope waters north…

A polar signpost on the Western Antarctic Peninsula provides an unusual reference point for scientists working in and around the continent in February and March 2003. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Amidst various models of the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE), engineer Al Bradley has designed numerous instruments and vehicles. The autonomous underwater vehicle ABE and its successor Sentry are two of…

Will Burt launches an XCTD (Expendable CTD), used to measure conductivity, temperature and density, during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment in the Arctic Ocean in 2005. (Photo by Christopher Linder,…

Postdoc Dave Ralston and Jay Sisson aboard coastal vessel Tioga recover a surface buoy from the Merrimack River. The round object at the top of the buoy is a radar reflector. (Photo by James…