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A panoply of uncommon stories and specimens passes through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility. In May 2007, a team of biologists and veterinarians used the facility…

Small crustaceans called mysids, shown here swarming in the ocean, might serve as “canaries in the coal mine” indictating when marine environments are being exposed to chemicals that could affect…

The research vessel Crawford is tied up at the WHOI pier with the wing of a P5 Marlin (P5M) seaplane strapped to its side in 1960. “An attempt was made…

WHOI postdoctoral fellow Mar Nieto-Cid adds seawater to a filtration system in the main laboratory of the research vessel Oceanus during a cruise in the North Atlantic in April 2008. …

An ice axe is an indispensable tool for navigating on ice. Explorers use them to probe the snow ahead to see how deep it is, to stop themselves when sliding…

A helicopter from the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Polar Star deploys one of five ocean-bottom hydrophones to record sound waves generated by any earthquakes or eruptions near Vailulu’u. After a…

WHOI staff link up and swim together as part of their small boat safety training course in spring 2008. Scientific and technical staff who wish to pilot the Institution’s small…

Ellen Murphy, a high school student from Minnesota, and Chris Reddy, WHOI marine chemist, examine samples of plastic in Reddy’s laboratory in May 2008. Murphy, Reddy, and other lab technicians…

Graduate students Chris Murphy (in the water), Rogelio Morales-Garcia (holding the instrument), and Clayton Kunz work to calibrate a camera system in the new test tank in WHOI’s Coastal Research…

In July 2008, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington spread a harmless red dye into the meltwater on top of the Greenland ice sheet. The team was able…

The Sun sets over the North Atlantic and the bow of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008 during an expedition off the edge of the continental shelf southeast of…

In March 2008, University of Rhode Island graduate student Pat Kelley (top, middle) and crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy use a Zodiac to recover a floating…

The fantail and decks of the research vessel Chain are stuffed with buoys while docked at the WHOI pier in 1958. Once a U.S. Navy salvage vessel, Chain made 129…

Mike Gagne (in the basket) and Nate Lavoie (on the mast) from WHOI’s ship operations group work to remove unused cable, mounts, and antennas from the top of the research…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Carly Strasser sieves mud to find juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) in the summer of 2005 in an estuary in Calves Pasture, Barnstable, Mass. Strasser, now…

When an earthquake occurs, rocks at a fault line slip or rupture, and a portion of Earth’s crust physically moves. That releases energy, and two types of seismic waves radiate…

The coastal research vessel Tioga takes shelter in late June at a dock in Rockport Harbor, Mass., where the tides can rise and fall by as much as eight feet.…

Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (yellow) and assistant scientist Ben Van Mooy (orange) examine Niskin bottles stowed in an incubation tank on the stern of the research vessel Oceanus during an…

Six of the seven founding members of the annual Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) summer program met in Woods Hole on June 27 for a 50th anniversary celebration. In addition, the…