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Shipboard Scientific Services Group technician Allison Heater stands on the submersible Alvin during recovery of the sub to R/V Atlantis in 2009 off the coast of Oregon. The past year,…

WHOI technicians Jeff Pietro (left) and Kris Newhall work on the stern of R/V Knorr to prepare a connection between jacketed wire rope and electromechanical cable on a moored coastal…

The remotely operated vehicle Jason, shown here during a 2011 cruise, will soon head out aboard research vessel Atlantis on a Dive and Discover cruise to study the ecosystem of…

Chinstrap penguins pant on a warm summer day at Orne Harbor, in the western Antarctic Peninsula, during a research expedition led by WHOI post-doctoral scholar Michael Polito and Tom Hart from…

The slender snorkel of an Isobaric Gas-Tight sampler (IGT) draws a sample of hydrothermal fluids spewing out of a hydrothermal vent chimney as the mechanical arm of remotely operated vehicle…

In November 2013, after many years overseeing Alvin activities as program manager at the National Science Foundation, Brian Midson (right) finally had his first dive in the sub. Afterward, Midson,…

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry got a festive “makeover” aboard R/V Atlantis this month—WHOI engineer Justin Fujii used electrical tape and a little magic to make the AUV resemble a certain…

In a refrigerated room, MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Alison Criscitiello saws ice cores from the Pine Island Shelf, where the Pine Island Glacier extends from West Antarctica into the…

Dr. Geir Huse, of the Norway-based Institute of Marine Research, collected fish brought aboard the Norwegian research ship G.O. Sars while a crew member looked on. Huse used the MULTPELT…

Massachusetts House speaker Robert DeLeo (center) gets a primer on the REMUS 6000 from principal engineer Mike Purcell (right), while Jim Rakowski, director of state government and external relations at…

On a visit to WHOI in June to deliver his one-of-a-kind submersible, DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, film director and explorer James Cameron (center) had a chance to climb inside the newly minted…

A sperm whale surfaces above the deep Kaikoura Canyon off the East Coast of New Zealand. WHOI biologist Michael Moore, director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center, and graduate student…

A team of scientists and technicians enjoy the sun and sea ice at the end of a long day of coring in the Beaufort Sea aboard the U.S. Coast Guard…

Oliver Zafiriou (left, holding rope) and crew of R/V Oceanus launch a water sampler on an October 1991 cruise. The shipboard instrument, known as a CTD for the fact that it…

Author Dallas Murphy (left) and WHOI post-doc Benjamin Harden confer on the bridge of R/V Lance recently about the day’s outreach activities during a cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Murphy…

In Terre Adélie, Antarctica, WHOI biologist Stephanie Jenouvrier holds a five-month-old emperor penguin chick in preparation to tag it. Tagging young birds, coupled with a long-term study of this penguin…

Hydrothermal vents are famous for chimneys that belch hot, mineral-laden water from deep beneath the ocean floor. Not all the fluid at vent sites flows so dramatically, though. Some diffuse…