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The research submersible Alvin is lifted off of its sled and track as it is deployed from the R/V Atlantis in November 2007. The track system helps keep the 17-ton…

Grey seals congregate and relax on Billingsgate Shoal, near Wellfleet, Mass. WHOI biologists Andrea Bogomolni and Michael Moore have joined colleagues in screening seals and other marine animals and their…

The freshly painted bow of the research vessel Knorr gleams in the sunlight at the Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Fla.,  in 2005. The ship was hauled out for deck…

WHOI engineers Bob Brown and Tito Collasius (right) check the fit of the yellow outer skin over the lifting eye of the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle. In development and testing…

Polar bears are excellent swimmers and have been seen in open Arctic waters, as far as 110 kilometers (60 nautical miles) from land. The bears’ long, tapered bodies streamline them…

WHOI engineer John Kemp, head of deck operations during the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition, supervises Camper’s deployment off the fantail of Oden. The towed vehicle was mobilized to find  the…

WHOI engineer John Kemp (left) and oceanographer Peter Winsor make their way down the food line on the icebreaker Oden. On the Swedish icebreaker, the gravy train usually starts with…

Skylar Bayer—a guest student in the WHOI Biology Department and a 2007 summer student fellow—is dwarfed by the expansive Pacific Ocean and the A-frame on the fantail of the research…

Maria Tausendfreund takes a water sample from a melt pond on top of an Arctic ice floe, which she will later analyze for microbes living in it. The graduate student…

Josh Burton, a research assistant in the WHOI-operated National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (NOSAMS) facility adjusts the valves on a water-stripping vacuum line that removes dissolved inorganic carbon from…

During September 2007 sea trials on the research vessel Knorr, WHOI technicians and researchers tested the powerful articulated hydraulic grapple that holds the ship’s new “long-core” system during launch operations.…

Engineer Rod Catanach steadies the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle as it is lowered for tests off the WHOI dock in November 2007. Sentry is a robot built for exploring the…

A top-down view through the massive, lead-filled core head—which can weigh as much as 25,000 pounds—offers an unusual view of the driving force behind WHOI’s new long-core system. The center…

WHOI technician Devin Ruddick and geophysicist Rob Reves-Sohn use a Swedish flag to cover the freshly painted Puma and Jaguar AUVs before their unveiling later that night to crew members…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jonathan Woodruff works to extract a sediment core from Sippewissett Marsh in Massachusetts. Along with advisor Jeff Donnelly, Woodruff is trying to piece together the…

Sunrise illuminates the bottom of the corehead of WHOI’s new long coring system on the research vessel Knorr. The head is held fast (in its stowed position) by the jaws…

The new hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is lowered toward Atlantic waters for one of its many engineering tests in 2007. In November, the one-of-a-kind vehicle made its first…