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WHOI researchers Craig Taylor and Ginny Edgcomb wheel SID-ISMS, a new water column sampler, to the main lab of R/V Atlantis in preparation for their 2011 research cruise in the…

German researchers Falk Pollehne (left) and Michael Zettler of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research prepare a Van Veen bottom grab sampler during an August 2011 research cruise off the…

Moments after the SID-ISMS (Submerged Incubation Device-In Situ Microbial Sampler) returned from beneath the Mediterranean Sea, an international team of scientists hurried to remove the samples it brought back and…

In October, scientists and crew led by WHOI oceanographer Robert Pickart traveled to the Beaufort Sea aboard the US Coast Guard ice breaker Healy. They were carrying out part of a five-year study…

Engineering Assistant Jim Dunn (foreground) lowers a benthic acoustic release frame (BARF) into the test tank at WHOI’s Coastal Research Lab while colleagues Eric Drange (left) and Jeff Pietro observe.…

Atlantis, the first ship used at WHOI for multidisciplinary ocean research, docked in Woods Hole in the 1950s near the Bigelow Laboratory. (The building was the first built for the…

Jeff Dusenberry stands in front of Scylla, a high performance computer cluster containing a total of 984 processors that was installed at WHOI in June 2011. Named after the many-headed…

Crawford, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter, came to WHOI in 1956. Crawford made 175 cruises, worked in the North and South Atlantic, and carried specialized gear for studying hurricanes.…

Though small, slow, and described by one author as looking a bit like a floating junkyard, Lulu secured a spot in WHOI history as the original support vessel for the…

On the morning of December 23, R/V Knorr tied up at the WHOI dock after an 11-day crossing from  Cape Verde. The ship left Woods Hole on November 6 on…

In 1962, WHOI purchased a vessel named Explorer from a marine salvage yard. To avoid confusion with other vessels of the same name, the vessel was christened Gosnold, to honor…

To search for evidence of hydrocarbon plumes emanating from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well in 2010, a WHOI research team used a technique called a “tow-yo.” From the research vessel…

The U.S. Navy built Chain in the 1940s to rescue, tow, and salvage damaged ships in the Pacific. It came to WHOI in 1958 to support oceanographic research. After the…