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A R/V Knorr refit from 1989-1991 included lengthening the vessel by 33 feet (10 meters) to 279 feet (85 meters). The ship was cut in half at McDermott Shipyard in…

Open-ocean SCUBA diving from research vessels began to reveal more about the world of jellies during cruises in the 1970s. To make their collections and observations and avoid becoming lost…

Probably the most familiar jellies are jellyfish, such as this one—technically called medusae, and belonging to two divisions of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are predators that use tentacles studded with…

WHOI scientists set up an isolated research camp in the cold Dry Valleys in Antarctica in December 2007 on a month-long expedition to explore how the volcanic landscape formed and…

Scientists aboard the Australian research vessel Aurora Australis studied the natural cycling of iron in the Southern Ocean in 2001. Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,…

As the Institution’s fourth director, from 1958 to 1977, Paul Fye presided over a period of major change. It was a time of great national interest in basic science, including…

In 1969, the barge Florida ran aground off Cape Cod, spilling 189,000 gallons of fuel. Prevailing winds blew oil from the barge into Wild Harbor in Falmouth, Mass., where decades…

Physical oceanographer Amy Bower leads a group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind to the WHOI dock for an onboard tour of the R/V Oceanus. Students from…

Biologist Alfred Redfield in his lab, circa 1955. Redfield joined the WHOI staff as senior biologist in 1931 and was Associate Director from 1942 to 1956. His broad marine research…

Aboard the R/V Knorr in the Hudson Strait, engineer John Kemp (left), Knorr Bosun Pete Liarikos (right), and Dara Tebo of the Physical Oceanography department, work to recover a mooring.…

Senior engineering assistant William Ostrom tests a stretch hose that will be utilized on moorings and buoys for the Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI). The specially designed cable, which stretches like…

The crew aboard the R/V Atlantis extended a helping hand to a fishing vessel in distress off the coast of Peru on Jan. 20, 2010. The vessel, the Peruvian long…

Amy Bower, of the WHOI Physical Oceanography department, gives a tour of the R/V Oceanus to a group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind. Bower, who is…

Water in the ocean is always on the move, with big currents flowing like rivers in different directions and at different layers in the sea. These ocean currents help carry…

Edward H. Smith (right) WHOI director from 1950 to 1956, greets Crawford master David Casiles upon the ship’s arrival in Woods Hole in 1956. Smith spent 40 years in the…