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From a small boat, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Max Kaplan stretches out to retrieve a drifter buoy from waters off Hawaii. In May 2013 Kaplan and WHOI biologist Aran Mooney…

When WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin was a high school student in China, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the city of Tangshan, killing 250,000 people. The event inspired Lin to study…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Julie van der Hoop snapped this quick self-portrait as she prepared to locate a whale tag with a VHF antenna in the spring of 2013.…

Japanese biologist, Hiroomi Miyamoto, checks on an aerosol sampler during the 2011 R/V Ka’imikai-O-Kanaloa cruise off the northeast coast of Japan near Fukushima. The sampler, which was fastened to the top…

Filmaker and explorer James Cameron (left) presented an amazing gift to WHOI in March: the 24-foot vehicle that a little over a year ago he used to reach the deepest…

The hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus returned from the seafloor to the R/V Falkor in autonomous mode during the Oases 2013 cruise recently. Nereus is unique for the fact that it…

Alvin Pilot Bruce Strickrott, snapped this photo during Alvin’s 3,906th dive on July 18, 2003. The team had to do a little bit of maneuvering to catch this evasive red squid,…

Scientist Lou St. Laurent and engineer Ken Decoteau (both of WHOI) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography graduate student Uriel Zajaczkovski (right to left) prepare a deep microstructure profiler for deployment…

Soaring above it all, scientist Ralph Stephen transferred via bosun’s cradle from the drilling ship JOIDES Resolution to the R/V Fred H. Moore, in the Atlantic south of Bermuda in…

A new pair of cameras on the hybrid-remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus claims a distinguished pedigree: they were part of a recent gift by explorer and director James Cameron to…

A bucket of ice-cold water is the traditional greeting for people returning from their first dive in the submersible Alvin. Here, WHOI data manager Scott McCue is ritually doused aboard…

Geoff Ekblaw, lead welder in the WHOI mechanical shop, prepares to weld part of Alvin‘s titanium frame during the sub’s recent upgrade and re-building process. Light, strong, and corrosion-resistant, titanium…

Throughout June 2013, a team of oceanographers and astrobiologists led by WHOI scientist Chris German will explore one of the deepest mid-ocean ridges, the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center beneath the Caribbean…

In September 2012, WHOI engineers Ken Decoteau and Jeff Lord deployed a vertical microstructure profiler from RV Knorr. The instrument records water velocity, temperature, and salinity on sub-centimeter scale as…

WHOI’s Redfield Auditorium overflowed with those who came to hear a panel of American and Japanese scientists discussing Japan’s Triple Disaster, the March 2010 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that…