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In 1956 Columbus Iselin (right) signed on for a second tour of duty as WHOI’s director, succeeding Edward Smith (left). Iselin came to WHOI to captain the first R/V Atlantis and…

Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (second from right) made his first visit to WHOI on Oct. 12, touring the facilities and learning about some of the instruments and vehicles that have…

In October, scientists and crew aboard the US Coast Guard ice breaker Healy in the Beaufort Sea encountered strong winds that blew thick pieces of multi-year sea ice into their…

In November 1975, R/V Oceanus first arrived at the WHOI dock to begin a long and illustrious career of oceanographic research. A mid-life refit completed in 1994 greatly changed the…

Joan Bernhard, a geobiologist in WHOI’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, prepares a sediment sample for analysis. Bernhard studies protists (also called protozoa) that live on and in the seafloor.…

Helheim Glacier, one of Greenland’s largest, empties into the ocean on the southeast coast of the island. The glacier has been retreating over the past decade, and WHOI physical oceanographer…

The digital acoustic recording tag (DTAG) was developed to monitor the behavior of marine mammals and their response to sound throughout the dive cycle. As with any piece of oceanographic equipment,…

When University of Florida Prof. Mike Perfit and Renee Kattell recently held a party in Gainesville, Fla., to commemorate their wedding earlier in the summer, DSV Alvin made an appearance…

In August 2011 WHOI hosted the governing board of the National Research Council, one of four organizations that comprise the United States National Academies. The visit included a tour of…

Virginia Edgcomb, a microbial ecologist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI, will be Chief Scientist on the next Dive and Discover cruise, which heads into the Mediterranean…

Videographer Evan Kovacs films the hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus as it descends from the sea surface. Nereus is called a “hybrid” ROV because it can operate either tethered…

US Coast Guard rescue swimmers and polar bear sentinels from the USCGC Healy stand by as scientists measure sea ice properties during NASA’s 2011 ICESCAPE cruise in the Chukchi and…

Ian Smith (left) and WHOI Corporator Barbara Wu (right) help associate scientist Mark Baumgartner deploy a video plankton recorder (VPR) from the fantail of R/V Tioga. Baumgartner and assistant scientist…

Fishing boats tied up at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in June 2009 await their next trip to sea. A recent Morss Colloquium titled “Does it matter where we get our seafood?”…

Joan Bernhard, a geobiologist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI, prepares a sample of seafloor sediment for analysis. Bernhard studies the single-celled eukaryotic organisms (protists) that live…

David Labranch (left) and Neil Lozey from Rose Steel, Inc., add the final beam to WHOI’s new LOSOS (Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and Observing Systems) building recently during the traditional…

Elizabeth Halliday, a student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, attaches a winch collar to a coring tube so the tube can be pulled out of the sand. Each…