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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…

Students in the Naval Command College get a firsthand view of the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry from WHOI engineer Rod Catanach during a recent visit to the Institution. The NCC…

During a 2007 expedition to Antarctica, scientists travelled to Ross Island to study the biology of the frigid, bountiful Ross Sea through the eyes of Adélie penguins. Small aluminum identification…

WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz recovers a CTD rosette in heavy weather north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 2005. Gale or storm conditions prevailed during the entire cruise, damaging…

Bow lights show the way as the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy streaks through slim pancake ice in the nighttime Bering Sea. After long, dark winters, sunlight returns to the…

Earth is an ocean planet. More than 70% of its surface is covered by ocean with an average depth of just over two miles. But how much water is there…

For decades, marine chemists and ecologists have been wondering: does the oil that was spilled into a Cape Cod salt marsh in 1969 still have an impact on the wildlife…

Margaret Boettcher (carrying belaying pin) and Joanna Wilson (carrying daughter Raynham) make their way in procession to the 2005 commencement ceremony of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied…

During a four week expedition aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star in the summer of 2002, scientists and sailors battled Arctic Ocean ice to observe one of the…

Is it fireworks, a flower, or a 1970’s fiber-optics lamp? None of the above!—it’s a colonial ocean animal related to jellyfish, called Porpita porpita. The colony has radiating blue “tentacles”—really…