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The recent upgrade of the human occupied vehicle Alvin added enough weight to the vehicle that the equipment used to launch and recover it from R/V Atlantis also had to…

WHOI technician Arnold Clarke conducts a “hydrographic station” aboard the original WHOI research vessel Atlantis, most likely in the late 1940s. A hydrographic station is a basic operation in oceanography,…

On June 14, the submersible DEEPSEA CHALLENGER completed a cross-country trip from California to Cape Cod, arriving just as the sun broke through the clouds in Woods Hole (shown here).…

WHOI’s Geodynamics Program fosters interdisciplinary research in the earth sciences among faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows. It is centered around an annual spring semester seminar series and a study tour…

Every year, WHOI scientists host a daylong visit by members of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, which offers full-year fellowships to journalists to increase their understanding of science,…

WHOI engineers Chris Lathan (left) and Drew Smith (right) use a hydraulic lift on R/V Atlantis to raise one of the batteries that powers the human-occupied submersible Alvin from a…

River discharge in the Northern Hemisphere summer is captured in this frame from an animation that displays average weekly runoff to the ocean from the world’s major rivers using data…

Members of WHOI’s Coastal Systems Group and the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility record and sample recently exposed layers on Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach. Here, Stephanie Madsen (right)…

Scientific technician Luis Lamar from the WHOI Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab and assistant professor of biology at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Andreas Fahlman paddle with a pod of…

Representatives from WHOI and Detyens Shipyard in Charleston, South Carolina, watch as the beefed-up A-frame and new winch of R/V Atlantis are put through their paces. The lifting equipment was strengthened to…

Fabricator Paul Keith uses a wood template to check the curve of a metal part he was shaping for use on the research submarine Alvin. The titanium piece was destined…

Typically, a common oceanographic instrument known as an eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT)  are deployed by hand from research and cargo ships to collect a variety of data including temperature and depth.…

Last Spring, a Nor’easter blew through Cape Cod and exposed the paleolithic under-layers of Eastham’s Coast Guard Beach. The Coastal Systems Group and National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility…

Four researchers sit in an inflatable boat waiting for a sperm whale to surface. From left, Michael Moore, Director of the WHOI Marine Mammal Center; Andreas Fahlman, Texas A&M University;…

An unusual shape on the main deck of the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr is called a “keyhole cut out,” and it once provided deck hands a position near the bow for…

On June 22, 2012, the new personnel sphere of the research submarine Alvin underwent testing to certify that it will be safe for human occupation to depths up to 6,500…