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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…

Scientists can’t observe magma moving beneath the seafloor, so WHOI geologist Glenn Gaetani makes his own. He subjects tiny capsules of powder (with a composition similar to the rocks in…

WHOI plankton ecologist Heidi Sosik (center, back to the camera) stands on the fantail of the coastal research vessel Tioga and explains ocean observatories and coastal dynamics to reporters participating…

Longtime WHOI employee—now officially a retiree who forgot that he’s not supposed to  be at work—George Tupper works on a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) water sampler in a Woods Hole workshop. Ocean…

Expedition leader Will Sellers evaluates oncoming ocean swells as the crew prepares to lower the remotely operated vehicle Jason to the Pacific’s Juan de Fuca Ridge. Now in its third…

In between launches of underwater vehicles in July 2007, Peter Winsor and researchers on the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition lowered the conductivity-temperature-depth probe in order to look for telltale chemical…

Nathaniel “Nat” Corwin prepares equipment for a chemical analysis of samples in WHOI’s Bigelow Laboratory, circa 1960. Nat was widely regarded for his painstaking analyses of the nutrients in seawater.…

The WHOI-operated research vessel Atlantis passes a quiet night in the halogen shadow of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland.(Photo by Lance Wills, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The coastal research vessels Tioga (left) and Gulf Challenger enjoyed a June 2007 reunion at the WHOI pier. Operated by the University of New Hampshire, Gulf Challenger was designed and…

Porpita porpita—the blue button jelly —is a neustonic species mostly found in the tropics; that is, it floats right neat the surface of the water. The circular disc is made…

In the summer of 2005, a WHOI research team, led by John Kemp and Rick Krishfield, surveyed floes in the Beaufort Sea in search of ice thick enough for deployment…

Norman Vine (from Advanced Habitat Imaging Consortium), Richard Taylor (a fisherman), and WHOI biologist Scott Gallager assemble on the Iselin pier after testing the habitat camera mapping system, or HabCam,…

Biologist Richard “Dick” Backus examines swordfish specimens in his WHOI laboratory, circa 1956. More than five decades later, Backus is still identifying the ocean’s bounty of life as a scientist…