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WHOI engineering assistants Jim Dunn (center) and Jim Ryder (right) and a member of the crew of the research vessel Connecticut deploy a right whale autodetection buoy in Massachusetts Bay…

Viewed end-on, the diatom Coscinodiscus is a study in symmetry, reminiscent of a sunflower. WHOI biologists Dawn Moran and Becky Gast have been collecting, imaging, and cataloguing protists (protozoa and algae)…

Senior research assistant Ellen Roosen (white hard hat) puts a pin in a box corer in preparation for deployment over the side of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008.…

Richard “Dick” Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the…

To call a penguin flightless is to ignore its abilities underwater. As penguins evolved, their wings grew shorter and their feathers smaller, and they eventually lost the ability to fold…

Craig Dickson, second mate for the research vessel Atlantis, and Matthew Barton, WHOI mulitimedia coordinator, drive in for a close up of the Alvin submersible in April 2008 during deployment operations…

Glaciologist Ian Joughin hustles toward a chopper as it lands on top of the Greenland ice sheet in July 2007. Joughin and several colleagues from WHOI and the University of…

A computer screen capture shows a map of the sampling locations for the research crew sailing on the RV Oceanus in May and June 2008 to study harmful algal blooms…

WHOI coastal oceanographers Britt Raubenheimer (blue-purple wetsuit) and Steve Elgar (black suit at right) join colleagues from three institutions in setting up instrument tripods and cables in the surf zone…

WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian (left) and U.S. Coast Guard marine science technician Daniel Gaona deploy a ring net from the icebreaker Healy in the summer of 2003. Ashjian and colleagues…

MIT/WHOI graduate student Maya Bhatia sets up an incubation experiment to measure carbon in the meltwaters that stream and pool across the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Bhatia’s advisors…

Engineer Bob Elder prepares the REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle for testing in the harbor of Woods Hole in May 2008. The AUV is headed to Estonia this summer for…

The research vessel Atlantis passes Lady Liberty in 1997, shortly after the Navy-owned, WHOI-operated ship was commissioned for oceanographic research. (Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)

New graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program gather alongside ship’s crew on the deck of the Corwith Cramer on June 24, 2008. They would later set sail on a…

On June 5, 2008, WHOI senior scientist Scott Doney (center) testified before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Technology. Doney,…

Each summer, meltwater ponds and lakes form on top of the Greenland ice sheet, as sunlight and warm air melt the surface. This meltwater can sometimes penetrate the thick, cold…