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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…

In 2006, geologist Henry Dick (standing, right) lectured in the field during a WHOI Geodynamics Program field trip to Iceland. This week, the WHOI Senior Scientist received the 2011 American…

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…

Set sail on Dive and Discover to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, today to Dec. 9! WHOI biologists Ginny Edgcomb and Joan Bernhard lead an international team of researchers aboard R/V…

The 274-foot R/V Atlantis (left) and 177-foot R/V Oceanus dock at the WHOI pier in November 2005. A similar sight greeted retired WHOI Capt. Larry Bearse when he first reported…

Dozens of oval bacteria coat the membrane of this microorganism, known as a protist, collected from the sulfidic, anoxic Cariaco Basin off the coast of Venezuela. This pairing is probably…

On a rainy day in October, Capt. Diego Mello brought R/V Oceanus home on its next-to-last science mission before the ship was retired by the National Science Foundation. Capt. Mello…

At a time of year when people are more likely to think about avoiding cold weather, WHOI’s Carin Ashjian is headed north of the Arctic Circle aboard the U.S. Coast…