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Alyson Santoro, a WHOI postdoctoral investigator in the department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, checks on cultures of marine ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. The bacteria are used by Santoro and Joint Program student Carly Buchwald in…

A member of the WHOI Buoy Group mounts a flashing light on a toroid, or donut-shaped, buoy prior to its deployment in the mid-1960s. The buoy was used to suspend…

After an oil spill, oil in the water can interfere with instruments scientists use to study the spill and its aftermath. WHOI scientists working in the Gulf of Mexico after…

In June 2010 WHOI investigators aboard the R/V Endeavor used the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry to map a large, underwater hydrocarbon plume in the Gulf of Mexico arising from…

With R/V Atlantis in the background, third mate Kami Bucholz (left) and Shipboard Scientific Services Group (SSSG) technician Allison Heater act as recovery swimmers for Alvin on the surface of…

Deep-sea moorings face many hazards, including waves, storms, saltwater, vandalism—and hungry fish. Suspecting that fish were biting through their mooring lines, in the late 1960s the WHOI Buoy Group began…

On October 16, 1968, two steel cables supporting Alvin snapped during deployment for Dive 308, 120 miles south of Cape Cod. The sub plunged about 15 feet (4.5 meters), then…

In December 2010, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, was in the Gulf of Mexico helping investigate possible impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The cruise marked the first…

Probably the most familiar jellies are jellyfish, such as the Nausithoe punctata (above). Jellyfish are predators that use tentacles studded with stinging cells to catch and kill their prey, usually…

Pilots and scientists controlling the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason work from a darkened control room to monitor Jason’s instruments and video feed. The Jason control room is made up…

Tom Lanagan of WHOI (right) and Paul Walsczak of Oregon State University (facing camera) insert a section of pipe into the barrel of the Long Core during a research cruise…

Three captains of the original Atlantis meet on deck: (left to right) Scott Bray, John Pike, and Adrian Lane. Lane was master of Atlantis from 1956 to 1962, then WHOI…

WHOI researchers struggle to prepare a Bodman bottle for deployment during a cruise on the R/V Crawford in the late 1950s. Marine chemist Vaughan Bowen helped develop the sampling bottle,…

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to the highest watermarks on the wall of a house destroyed by a devastating tsunami following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off the coast…

Flags flying, R/V Knorr steams down Vineyard Sound towards the WHOI dock and home, after crossing the Atlantic from the Azores in July 2010. A yellow “quarantine” flag, flown when…

Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, grew up in the farmlands of Nebraska, far from any ocean. As a result, he had little exposure to the…