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It took a village of engineers to build the new hybrid deep-sea vehicle Nereus, which dove to 10,902 meters (6.8 miles) in the western Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench on May…

The Aries, a 93 foot ketch, arrived in Woods Hole in March of 1959 as a gift from R.J. Reynolds. She was refitted as a research vessel by June and…

Joint Program graduate student Kristin Pangallo’s childhood wish to work with whales and dolphins branched into a bachelor’s degree in chemistry then a job as a research technician at WHOI.…

Siphonophores, relatives of jellyfish made of compound units, drift in the endless space of the open ocean. Their many tentacles, studded with batteries of stinging cells, form a beaded curtain…

A trip to the snow? Actually, it’s mineral, not ice, as WHOI graduate program student Evelyn Mervine collects recently-deposited carbonate from a highly alkaline spring in the Samail Ophiolite—an area…

Working out on the ice in the reassuring presence of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, scientist Katrin Iken (left, from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks)—assisted by technician Pat Kelly (right,…

Jill Van Tongeren (a graduate student at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory) stands, for scale, underneath stalactites and stalagmites of the mineral travertine, in Oman. Evelyn Mervine, WHOI Joint…

Fern Gibbons, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, extracts a sample of sediments cored from the seafloor. The long, round core is split lengthwise down the middle. The…

From the very first student awarded a Ph.D. from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program— Frank Bohlen, here at the 1970 Commencement in Woods Hole—to the graduates of 2009 who receive their…

Tassel and hood! The MIT-WHOI Joint Program‘s 2009 Ph.D. candidates will be hooded (the academic hoods’ colors and fabrics signifying the degree and field of study) in a ceremony June…

In 2000, graduates from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering lined up on the WHOI lawn at Commencement, and Ph.D. candidate Nicole Suoja Tervalon marked the…

WHOI engineer John Kemp sends the sampling camera instrument Camper off on a solitary mission to the deep Arctic Ocean floor, from the Swedish icebreaker Oden. During the 2007 expedition…

Graduate student Evelyn Mervine traveled to Oman recently to study an area of uplifted ocean crust exposed to the atmosphere, the Samail Ophiolite. The photo shows accumulated layers of travertine,…

Algae, ciliates, and other microorganisms get eaten by bigger creatures, like the zooplankton that WHOI biologist Phil Alatalo caught in his net. As part of the zooplankton team aboard the…

On an expanse of ice-covered ocean, Gigi Engel, a graduate student at the University of Washington, slips an ice core out the core. She took the core to find and…

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has more than 60 volunteers who donate their time in the Ocean Science Exhibit Center, Information Office, Archives, Peanut Butter Club, and various other…

The zooplankton team aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy put their vertical net over the back of the boat during an April 2009 cruise in the Bering Sea to…

Since its beginning, WHOI has maintained a dedicated coastal vessel used by researchers studying the coastal ocean or testing equipment. In Down to the Sea for Science, celebrating WHOI’s 75…

In the middle of an expanse of ice, the U.S. icebreaker Healy came upon an unusual feature—open water, next to a large chunk of ice. Science writer Helen Fields and…