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It looks like a curtain of Mardi Gras beads hung in a doorway, but fish should choose another door! These are a Physalia’s (Man-o’-War jelly’s) tentacles hanging beneath its ship-shaped…

Research vessel Atlantis, which is operated by WHOI, and R/V Thomas G. Thompson, which is operated by the University of Washington, became neighbors for a short time during the late…

WHOI scientist Tim Stanton and research associate Cynthia Sellers return a broadband imaging sonar to its storage box after putting it through its paces in the test well on the…

Arrayed around the WHOI dock in Woods Hole, Mass. are the three ocean-going research vessels WHOI operates—(clockwise) Knorr, Oceanus, and Atlantis. The ships are part of the U.S. research fleet,…

WHOI Biologist Scott Gallager leads a team developing a new tool to keep drinking water safe, by watching how single-celled organisms (protozoans) react to toxins in the water. Toxins typically…

DSV (Deep Submergence Vehicle) Alvin dives to the sea floor almost every day of the year in the service of ocean science. In the relatively few hours between dives, a…

Arctic climate research takes extra effort from people and instruments alike. In April 2010 WHOI engineers Jeff Pietro and Kris Newhall loaded buoys specially designed for the ice onto a…

Under the watchful gaze of his dog Little Bear, engineer Marshall Swartz adjusts an instrument in his lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Swartz recently discovered a way to…

WHOI Upper Ocean Proccesses Group engineers John Kemp, Jim Ryder, Paul Bouchard, and Jason Smith, and scientist Tom Farrar went to the Red Sea in November 2009 to recover and…

RV Atlantis steward Carl Wood dives back into the ocean after securing the lifting lines used to recover the human occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin. Known for his graceful exits, Carl…

A smooth dogfish shark (Mustelus canis) — a small species, fairly common in waters off New England — swims in the newly-built testing flume located in the Environmental Systems Lab…

In July 2008, a team of four scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington returned to Greenland for their third year to learn how the…

Researchers Jefferson Turner of UMass Dartmouth, left, foreground, Dennis McGillicuddy of WHOI (green jacket), and winch operator John Gaylord of WHOI, above, deploy a CTD rosette system on R/V Oceanus…

Atlantis—the first Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel—departs the dock in July of 1947. This early cruise to Bikini Atoll yielded sediment cores from Henry Stetson’s coring device, echosounder profiles…

These cruise members, including the Sentry team and the Alvin group—shown during a recent Atlantis cruise near the Galapagos Islands—breathed a collective sigh of relief after a dramatic resuscitation of…

The picturesque port of Tasiilaq in southeastern Greenland served as home base for scientists investigating conditions in a glacial fjord for two months in 2008. Led by physical oceanographer Fiamma…

Amy Bower (in orange jacket), of the WHOI Physical Oceanography department, hosts a group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind. Bower, who is legally blind, collaborates with…