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A yellow “JetYak” cruises close to West Greenland’s Sarqardliup Glacier while keeping researchers out of harm’s way of its calving icebergs. WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh developed this autonomous surface vehicle…

Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (right) helps deploy a sediment trap from the fantail of research vessel Knorr in 2012. Ossolinski is the 2013 recipient of the Ryan C. Schrawder Award,…

Summer Student Fellow Benjamin Urann (left) and his mentor, geologist Henry Dick, examine slabs cut from igneous rocks collected during a cruise to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge aboard research vessel Knorr.…

A deep-sea submersible may not have keys, but it does have one very important piece of equipment that needs to be accounted for before every dive: a pin that holds…

Benjamin Birner, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from Jacobs University in Bremen, at work in the Clark Clean Lab on WHOI’s Quissett campus. “Clean labs” are designed to prevent contamination…

On the way to the high Arctic to study how the polar ocean circulates, the crew aboard the Norwegian research vessel Lance took in this scenic sight—the glacial tongues of…

Viewed from outer space, Earth has been called the Blue Planet. But if you could pull all the water in the ocean, the atmosphere, groundwater and surface water into a ball,…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President & Director Susan Avery checks out the sphere of the newly remodeled Alvin with Deep Submergence Vehicle expedition leader Bruce Strickrott. Built in 1964 as one…

WHOI biologist Andrea Bogomolni spoke about some of Cape Cod’s most charismatic predators (and prey) during the WHOI public event White Sharks, Gray Seals on August 7, 2013. Bogomolni studies seals found off the…

The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship program brings undergraduates to WHOI for a summer of ocean science. A memorable day for students is the annual science cruise on WHOI’s coastal vessel…

Slocum gliders move horizontally by changing their buoyancy at the top and bottom of each pre-programmed dive. More importantly, they move through the water silently. This is allowing a team that…

WHOI volunteer Peter Partridge explains the hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus during a recent public event about deep ocean trenches. Partridge, who served aboard the Navy support vessel for Trieste,…

Even when they’re in port, crewmembers of WHOI research vessels are hard at work honing the skills that make ocean science on the high seas possible—and safe. Here, crew of…

Explorer and director James Cameron testified in support of ocean research with WHOI president and director Susan K. Avery before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast…

Casey Zakroff, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, adjusts transparent plastic cups in a water bath. The cups hold squid eggs in seawater bubbled with air containing normal…

Carolyn Garrity, a 2013 Summer Student Fellow from the University of Maine, searches for specimens of benthic organisms in sediment collected from the bottom of Buzzards Bay. Each year the…

On her first day in Antarctica, WHOI research associate Emelia Deforce photographed the R/V Laurence M. Gould docked on Anvers Island, which is home to the U.S. Antarctic Program’s Palmer…