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Heading south after a full week spent crossing from Australia to Antarctica, Peter Kimball awoke to the sight of icebergs all around the ship, and took this photo just after…

Postdoctoral fellow Bill Orsi and microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb assemble the SID-ISMS (Submerged Incubation Device-In Situ Microbial Sampler) in preparation for their cruise to the Mediterranean Sea in late 2010. They…

Research associate Alexi Shalapyonok, mechanic Brian Durante, and engineer Hugh Popenoe prepare to seal a pressure chamber they are using to test a penetrator that will become part of the…

The Synergy project at the Museum of Science in Boston until June 2 highlights works of art created by artists paired with ocean scientists. Anastasia Azure collaborated with WHOI oceanographer Larry…

Doug Mendes (left) and Brian Pepin inspect one of Alvin‘s eight ballast tanks during the continuing overhaul and upgrade of the human-occupied vehicle. They were looking for any signs of…

WHOI researchers called the edge of a Greenland glacier home for seven weeks during a 2008 expedition funded by the WHOI Arctic Research Initiative. Maya Bhatia and colleagues revealed in Nature…

Sean Kelly (left), Justin Fujii (foreground), and Hannah Baker performed a series of tests with the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry on the WHOI dock in February. Engineers and technicians…

It took about 400 gallons of primer and paint to spiffy up two WHOI-operated research vessels, Atlantis and Knorr,  during several weeks of ship maintenance in 2012 in Charleston, South…

WHOI biologist and Marine Mammal Center director Michael Moore recently traveled to New Zealand to study the sperm whales off the coast of the Kaikoura Peninsula. The team he assembled…

Postdoctoral scholar Liz Douglass (left) and chief scientist Ruth Curry recover a CTD  rosette during a cruise aboard RV Knorr in the North Atlantic in 2011. The cruise was part…

Until the early 1980s, the 105-foot catamaran Lulu served as the support vessel for the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Here, engineers use a pedestal crane on the WHOI pier to…

R/V Knorr passed the Steamship Authority freight vessel Sankaty in Woods Hole Channel on its way to the port of Cape Town, South Africa, in February 2013. Although it was…

Scientist Ellie Bors (left) and artist Laurie Kaplowitz stand in a gallery at the Museum of Science in Boston before a triptych of wall-length paintings they collaborated to create. The…

Joe Harvey carefully measures a large piece of syntactic foam before cutting it. The foam, which is made of tiny glass bubbles embedded in epoxy, provides buoyancy for the human…