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Scientific gear and underwater vehicles crowd the fantail of the research vessel Knorr during a 2001 expedition to explore the mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean.  The first-generation remotely operated…

Emperor Hirohito of Japan (foreground) prepares to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist Susumu Honjo (standing) during a visit in 1975.  An amateur marine biologist…

MIT/WHOI graduate student Desirée Plata prepares a flame torch to seal samples for carbon isotope measurements in her lab experiments. Her research has shown that differently manufactured carbon nanotubes have…

Winds in Cape Crozier, Antarctica, tend to stream down the slopes from Mount Terror. The volcano got its name from Captain James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea and…

WHOI engineering assistants Kris Newhall, Will Ostrom, and Mike McCarthy prepare to deploy buoys during the North Atlantic Right Whale Monitoring Project in Cape Cod Bay in 2004. (Photo by…

Alex Pogue, a guest student working with paleoclimatologist Anne Cohen and geochemist Dan McCorkle, feeds baby quahogs in an experiment that tests the impact of ocean acidification on early shell…

The crew of the research vessel Knorr recovers a “elevator” during a 2001 cruise in the Dive and Discover series. Seafloor explorers use the system in tandem with the remotely…

A plucky Adelie penguin hurdles a meltwater stream that has been stained brown by the acres of guano it has trickled through. “The Adelie is this really tough little character,”…

A tiddlywinks game? A Jackson Pollock painting?  No, it’s a mobile hanging in a skylight of the McLean Laboratory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic…

An Inupiat (native Alaskan) guide armed with a rifle stands watch while WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord works inside the tent to gather data during a recent sea ice…

From a few bits of wood, researchers hoped to prove the presence of a notorious criminal. The wood came from the bottom of the Atlantic, off the coast of North…

WHOI researchers prepare to make a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) survey of an old shipwreck that washed up on the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Mass. in March…

WHOI multimedia specialist Matt Barton installs a camera above an osprey nest outside of the Rinehart Coastal Research Laboratory on the Institution’s Quissett campus. For the sixth consecutive year, the…

The Clothing Distribution Center of the U.S. Antarctic Program in New Zealand provides one-stop shopping for polar explorers. If you are going south on their watch, then you are going…

Seated inside the control van for the remotely operated vehicle Jason, pilot Scott Hansen (background) and chief scientist Bill Chadwick (Oregon State University) work to collect samples from the hydrothermal…

Today marks the second anniversary of the WHOI Image of the Day, our attempt to share the beauty, the characters, the behind-the-scenes action, and the personality of the Woods Hole…

Able-bodied seaman–and sometimes Alvin diver–Raul Martinez stands atop the submersible to relay directions and guide Alvin’s pilot into position for recovery by the research vessel Atlantis. (Photo by Lance Wills,…