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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…

Though Cape Royds, Antarctica, may seem like a harsh place, it actually provides a fairly comfortable existence for animals like these penguins. It has high ground, plenty of pebbles with…

Cyanobacteria and other microbiota produce thick mats that bind sedimentary particles and can form stromatolites such as these crusting a pool in Shark Bay, Australia. Because they include hard components…

Able Seaman Susan Coleman makes repairs to R/V Knorr while out at sea. She was participating in the DynAMITE (Dynamics of Abyssal Mixing and Interior Transports Experiment) cruise led by…

Often it’s the smallest creatures that tell us about the largest climate issues. Summer Student Fellow Max Kaplan, visiting from St. Andrew’s in Scotland, turned to the recently hatched longfin…

The remotely operated vehicle Jason, seen here being recovered after a mission, was designed and built by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI to give scientists access to the seafloor…

Workers load a stretch hose onto the resarch vessel R/V Wecoma for the Inshore Mooring Test 2 (ISMT2) in Newport, Oregon, in March as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative…

WHOI microbial ecologist Rebecca Gast checks the distances between sample sites on the beach at Duck, N.C., as research associate Levi Gorrell places a coring tube and physical oceanographer Britt…

Crystal Breier, Kamila Stastna, Ken Buesseler, and Sachiko Yoshida (left to right) draw water from a rosette sampler in June 2011 on board the R/V Ka’imikai-o-Kanaloa. The cruise was organized…

Icebergs catch the morning light outside Sermilik Fjord near the town of Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland. Massive icebergs like these break off from outlet glaciers that connect directly to the…

Researchers gather samples of mud from a blue pool near the edge of Shark Bay, Australia. Blue pools are small bodies of water that are much more salty than seawater.…

At Camp Barneo, an ice camp near the North Pole, WHOI senior research specialist Rick Krishfield “talks” to an Ice-Tethered Profiler, to ensure that it’s functioning properly before leaving it…

R/V Knorr recently visited the Faroe Islands (in background) at the tail-end of a month-long cruise to investigate the origins of a newly discovered current flowing south through the Denmark…