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R/V Knorr Bosun Peter Liarikos and Shipboard Scientific Services Group technician Amy Simoneau release a catch of rock specimens collected with a dredge near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Scientists on the…

In spring 2013, WHOI engineer Jeff Lord stopped in the middle of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean to fix a buoy’s electronics. He and his colleagues, who study the upper…

After years of observing albatrosses on the high seas, WHOI oceanographer Phil Richardson combined his interests in waves, sailing, flying, and physics to figure how the large seabirds extract energy…

Marine chemist Zhaohui “Aleck” Wang recently tested an instrument he developed in collaboration with WHOI engineers for his research on ocean acidification and the carbon cycle. This all-in-one sensor package…

Could a robotic vehicle follow a live, moving shark in the ocean? Engineers in WHOI’s Oceanographic Systems Lab took up that challenge, creating a system called SharkCam. It allowed a…

The WHOI ship Atlantis II tied up at the dock in Woods Hole on December 13, 1977, with 11 seamen rescued from the Puerto Rican freighter Ensenada on board. Sipping hot…

Visitors to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Insitution Ocean Science Exhibit Center take turns at navigating a radio controlled sub through a mock hydrothermal vent field. The activity allows visitors to…

Students and volunteers search a beach along the Gulf of Mexico for “sand paddies,” clumps of sand and oil. The sand paddies they collected were logged into a weathered oil…

Although not yet officially christened, R/V Neil Armstrong recently received its name at the shipyard where it is under construction, in Anacortes, Washington. The 238-foot ship, scheduled to launch in…

One night on the WHOI dock in 2009, senior engineer Norm Farr and the optical communications team of engineers prepared the hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus to record and…

Every few years since its launch, WHOI’s deep-diving human-occupied submersible Alvin undergoes a complete and thorough overhaul. In this archival image taken during a mid-1970s overhaul, engineer William “Skip” Marquet …

Students in a bioacoustics workshop partly run by WHOI scientists Peter Wiebe, Tim Stanton, and Gareth Lawson in July 2013 at Friday Harbor Laboratories watch as a towed sonar system…

The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy steams through “pancake” sea ice in the western Arctic Ocean in October 2013. WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart is leading the cruise to complete…

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Mary Ann Lee, from Ohio Wesleyan University, carefully nets an adult squid in a holding tank. Lee spent summer 2013 at WHOI, working with biologist Aran…

The original remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason waits for a 1991 cruise aboard the submarine support vessel Betty Chouest as Steve Lerner (facing camera) and Sandipa Singh of the Deep…

Whit, a seeing-eye dog, keeps close watch over his charge, physical oceanographer Britt Raubenheimer (second from left), as scientists and students check current meters they placed in the “swash zone”…

Engineer Casey Machado from WHOI’s Deep Submergence Laboratory guides the group’s newest vehicle, Nereid: Under Ice (NUI) into a test pool in the Coastal Research Lab recently. The remotely operated vehicle is…