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Pilot Chris Lathan adjusts a data logger in Alvin’s wiring harness during a recent major overhaul of the submersible’s systems. The “birdcage,” a scaffold mockup of the equivalent structure in the…

WHOI biologists Aran Mooney and Laela Sayigh are leading a multi-year effort to study the “soundscape” of Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound—the proposed site of one of the country’s first…

WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly (left) of the Coastal Systems Group and actor Ian Somerhalder hold a sediment core during recent filming for an episode of the documentary TV series “Years of…

This purple fish, Bythites hollisi, was named after Alvin pilot Ralph Hollis, who captured one in 1988 with a net held in Alvin’s manipulator arm. Bythites hollisi is one of many deep-sea…

In 1968, Alvin flooded and sank to 5,000 ft. depth when its cradle and support cables snapped while it was being lowered into the water. All three crewmembers escaped unharmed, but…

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking station is prepared for deployment from R/V Atlantis. The dock was successfully deployed in October 2015 at the base of the Pioneer Array’s offshore…

MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Stevens leaps over a stream of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Stevens was part of team (including WHOI scientists Sara Das, Mark Behn, and Jeff…

Henry Bigelow (left) and Columbus Iselin—the founder and second director of WHOI, respectively—stand on the deck of the Institution’s first research vessel, Atlantis. Iselin was a student of Bigelow’s at the…

WHOI 2015 Summer Student Fellows Jerry Fontus (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julia Lanoue (Brown University) learned how to deploy a water sampling CTD rosette off the fantail of R/V…

R/V Atlantis (left) and R/V Neil Armstrong recently came out of drydock at Detyen’s Shipyards in Charleston, S.C. Atlantis was in for scheduled maintenance, while Neil Armstrong had the remainder of its science gear installed after sailing from Anacortes, Wash.,…

This photo of Elizabeth Bigelow, wife of founding director of WHOI Henry Bigelow, was taken more than 60 years ago. The Bigelows were wed in 1906, a marriage that Henry…

Engineer Loral O’Hara designed new racks to carry equipment on the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. The racks hold pressure housings—the titanium bottles that house the electronics…

Speaking at WHOI in December 2014, Pamela Goldberg, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MTC), had high praise for WHOI’s Center for Marine Robotics (CMR) and its potential to spur…

Over the course of nearly six decades at WHOI, Hartley Hoskins has been an integral part of the Institution’s fabric. He sailed on R/V Oceanus when the ship was delivered to…

The heading blocks that tell watchstanders on R/V Neil Armstrong the direction the ship is supposed to be traveling share a console with the slightly higher tech dynamic positioning control.…

WHOI machinist Timothy Kling cuts titanium into a component for the frame of the upgraded Alvin, the nation’s deep-diving human-occupied research submersible. He is using a water jet, which directs…

A clam rake is the instrument of choice for MIT-WHOI joint program student Megan May as she hunts for clams at Little Island Beach in Falmouth. May is using genetic…