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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,…

A research team from WHOI moves out along a ridge above the Koettlitz Glacier in Antarctica. The sun is due north over the Ross Sea, meaning it’s midday. Joint Program…

Engineer Josh Eaton (lower left), biologist Cabell Davis (upper left), and postdoctoral scholar Qiao Hu maneuver the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) for calibration testing in a tank in a Woods…

WHOI mail distribution supervisor Patrick Harrington (foreground), with help from Eric Drange, works to sort and deliver the institution’s mail.  In 2007, the WHOI mailroom processed more than 63,000 pieces…

Meteorologists Tom Horst (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Jim Edson (visiting scientist at WHOI, full time at University of Connecticut) hold tight to an array of acoustic anemometers as…

Bruce Strickrott, Alvin pilot and expedition leader for a winter 2007 cruise on the research vessel Atlantis, prepares for the launch of the submersible into the Pacific Ocean near the…