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Maurice Tivey, a geologist at WHOI, addressed an international group of scientists, policymakers, environmentalists, and industry representatives who gathered at WHOI in early April 2009 for a workshop and public…

Atlantis was the first Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research vessel and the first ship built specifically for interdisciplinary research in marine biology, marine geology and physical oceanography.  The “A-boat” made…

What looks like a lime-green sheet of paper is actually a mat of algae. Harmful algal blooms, like this one in West Falmouth Harbor, Mass., can occur in coastal waters…

Diane Poehls Adams, a guest investigator in the Biology Department, cultures blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) from larvae to mature adults in an effort to learn which are most successful in…

Postdoctoral scholar Adam Reitzel collecting the “starlet sea anemone”, Nematostella vectensis, at Great Sippewissett Marsh. Adam and other members of Ann Tarrant’s lab in the Biology department are interested in…

The bright yellow “ScanFish II,” a new towed vehicle that takes samples while it flies up and down in the water, and the Video Plankton Recorder (background) are stowed on…

Harmful algae blooms (“red tide”) commonly occur in the Gulf of Maine in spring. Blooms result from the rapid reproduction of toxic algae called Alexandrium when their seed-like resting stages…

More than two-thirds of Earth’s crust is created along seafloor spreading ridges, yet scientists rarely have a chance to observe the process is action. An event along the East Pacific…

Sentry, a new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) built by engineers at WHOI, is loaded onto the R/V Tioga for testing operations during December 2007. The free-swimming underwater robot, which is…

This sulfide structure is part of the “Bio 9” hydrothermal vent at 9 degrees north on the East Pacific Rise. Deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems are attracting considerable interest from commercial…

WHOI summer student fellow Zack Bailey (Indiana State University) and cruise volunteer Pradeep Ranasinghage (Kent State University) collect seawater from the Niskin bottles on a CTD rosette, in June 2008.…

R/V Oceanus captain Diego Mello looks out for traffic as he guides the ship into the port of Gibraltar. The research vessel stopped at Gibraltar to refuel on its way…

In March 2008 the icebreaker USCGC Healy carried researchers led by WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian to sample in nearly 200 locations in the Bering Sea. The cruise was supported by…

A sediment trap is prepared for deployment from the research vessel Oceanus during a cruise in the Gulf of Maine. The instrument collects sinking particles on a pre-programmed schedule and…

A plexi-glass reservoir holds orange microbial material slurped up by the vacuum sampler on the towed vehicle Camper, as well as tiny black shards of volcanic glass that covered large…

Like clockwork four people work together to remove samples from a sediment trap, on a cruise off Bermuda in December 2008, making a near-symmetrical picture. The samples will be brought…

The R/V Atlantis steams through the Gulf of Nicoya off the coast of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, in February 2009. The research vessel and the Alvin submersible were in the area…