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Doctoral students Gillian Gruen (left) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Heidi Berkenbosch of the University of Tasmania, along with journalist Julian Thompson, study freshly-dredged rocks…

Caryn joined WHOI in the late 1940s and made 110 cruises, mostly along the East Coast through the Caribbean, and around Bermuda. The vessel was used for a variety of…

While steaming south from San Diego in August 2011, engineers prepared the remotely operated vehicle Jason to study biology and geology at a 3,600-foot volcano on the East Pacific Rise…

Named for a local starfish, the original Asterias was the Institution’s first coastal research vessel. Asterias was built in 1931 in Fairhaven, Mass., from white and southern hard pine, and was…

Pancake ice covers the sea on one of the last sunrises that scientists and crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy‘s saw in the northern Chukchi Sea, where the…

Since arriving at WHOI in 1970, research vessel Knorr has traveled more than a million miles—the equivalent of forty trips around Earth. During a 1991 overhaul, the ship was cut in…

Atlantis II arrived at WHOI in 1963 and made immediate, if unexpected, headlines. Its second voyage, intended to be a routine biology cruise, was interrupted with the news that the…

On December 7, at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, WHOI’s Joe Pedlosky received the 2011 Maurice Ewing Medal. The medal is one of earth science’s most prestigious…

Atlantis was the first open-ocean research vessel operated by WHOI, and the first ship built specifically for interdisciplinary marine research. Columbus Iselin, the ship’s original captain and an influence on…

In January 2005, an expedition led by WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz set out on R/V Oceanus for the tumultuous waters off the coast off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina—aptly nicknamed…

WHOI biologist Aran Mooney gently lifts a squid from a tank in the Environmental Systems Lab. Mooney studies the sensory abilities of marine animals, focusing their use and detection of…

Divers aboard the R/V Connecticut prepare to jump in the waters off South Beach on Martha’s Vineyard on October 1, 2011. Their mission: to plug a profiler into the underwater…

New York sculptor Cornelia Kavanagh and WHOI biologist Gareth Lawson are collaborating on a series of sculptures that highlight the fragile state of the pteropod, one of many ocean creatures…

Best known as the support ship for the submersible Alvin, R/V Atlantis (shown here entering New York Harbor soon after its delivery to WHOI in 1997) recently provided a much…