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Women from Unguja Ukuu-Tindini on the island of Zanzibar off Tanzania examine a shellfish farm that they are learning to set up and tend. Hauke Kite-Powell, a Marine Policy Center…

Hanumant Singh, of the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, tests a newly-built SeaBED autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) off the WHOI dock in May 2009. Eight of these AUVs…

The crew aboard the R/V Atlantis handle a line during recovery of an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) in January 2009.  The OBS was just one of 41 deployed along the Quebrada,…

Oil washed into the West Falmouth marsh and tide pools after a 1969 spill, with disastrous consequences for these small marine animals in a tidal pool. Though the marsh now…

Daniel Gomez-Ibañez is an engineer at WHOI who specializes in developing battery systems to power deep-submergence vehicles, including the new “hybrid” deep-sea explorer Nereus, which successfully dove to Challenger Deep…

Claudia Cenedese, scientist in the WHOI physical oceanography department, studies how water in the ocean moves. But she does it inside the box—by doing laboratory experiments that simulate oceans in…

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…

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…