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Stacked plastic plates, called “sandwiches” (left), used as artificial substrates for larvae of vent animals. As part of the research project LADDER (Larval Dispersal on the Deep East Pacific Rise),…

Valletta, Malta, was among the ports Atlantis (right) visited during “the Med cruise,” a six-month, 1948 cruise to the Mediterranean Sea. The cruise was funded by the Hydrographic Office and…

The first buoy designed for the Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) undergoes testing at the dock. Holding the lines to steady the suspended buoy are senior engineer Tim Scholz, left, and…

The USCG Campbell towing Balanus Circa 1948. Balanus was part of the WHOI fleet from 1946 to 1950. It was a rather uncomfortable craft that biologist Gordon Riley said was…

A single-celled organism has eaten bacteria, which are easily visible because they were treated with green dye. Some bacteria can live within organisms, waiting to be released back into the…

Photographer Dave Owen rigging up his camera system on deck of Atlantis. Owen conducted extensive deep-sea camera operations on many expeditions, including three cruises between 1972 and 1974 near the…

Postdoctoral Investigator Sarah Cooley (right), of the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry department, leads a group of teachers through a classroom laboratory exercise exploring ocean acidification and its effects on marine…

The WHOI-operated deep-sea vehicle ABE systematically tracked over the seafloor on the volcanic Mid-Atlantic Ridge, midway between Africa and South America, photographing the ocean bottom. Some 3,000 overlapping photos were…

The principal developers of the salinometer —Karl Schleicher, right, and Alvin Bradshaw— are at work with their first model, in the mid-1950s, in the main lab of the research vessel…

A beautiful, winter sunset casts an amber glow on the R/V Oceanus docked at the WHOI pier in January 2010. Oceanus is the North Atlantic workhorse of the WHOI-UNOLS fleet,…

Over the past two years, WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito and his colleagues at J.C. Venter Institute have been studying life at the bottom of the food chain in Antarctica.…

Research Assistant Skye Moret-Ferguson of the Geology & Geophysics department prepares a core for analysis in the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) core scanner. The scanner, which produces nondestructive, high-resolution elemental analysis,…

Stephen R. Okkonen of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Guest Investigator Robert Campbell from the University of Rhode Island deploy a conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD)…

The R/V Knorr steams away from the coast of Cape Dyer, Baffin Island—the largest island in Canada—in October 2009. The ship was in the area to recover a series of…

WHOI marine biogeochemist Mak Saito snapped this image of two Emperor penguins while working in Antarctica in November 2009. Over the past two years, Saito and his colleagues have shared…

R/V Knorr bosun Pete Liarikos and University of Washington engineer Eric Boget move a mooring anchor into position for deployment as part of the Arctic Gateways program. The anchors, which…