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An Adélie penguin hunches down over its nest as icy winds whip across Cape Royds. Nearly 80 percent of Adélie chicks do not survive their first year, according to researcher…

It’s Solstice day, but what that means depends on which end of the earth you live on. In the northern hemisphere, mid-winter’s day is the shortest (and the night is…

WHOI senior engineering assistant Brian Guest and engineer Jeff Sherman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography work with a Spray glider in a Quissett Campus lab in April 2004. Guest…

While working in Antarctica, some research groups travel with a complete portable shelter called a “tomato.”  The fiberglass-walled unit keeps people out of the elements and provides a place to…

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (in blue shirt) and colleagues examine geological evidence of past earthquakes near the Mediterranean coast of Algeria. Lin’s work in that nation has been funded by…

The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus was tested several times from the Woods Hole dock in 2007, and recently underwent open-water trials off Hawaii in November. Now in the…

Muddy sediment from beneath the seafloor pokes out of one of the first long cores collected by the new sampling system on the research vessel Knorr. Scientists use sediment cores…

While towing a phytoplankton net near the Vanuatu Islands for samples of the colonizing bacteria Trichodesium, researchers caught a straggler a barnacle attached to a floating piece of pumice. Though…

Exhuasted from two days of survival camp, researchers and explorers ride slowly back to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station in an oversized transport vehicle. Each person was required to learn to build…

WHOI chemical engineer Richard Camilli (top right) shakes hands with pilot Konstantinos Katsaros, as he emerges from the submersible Thetis of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research. Camilli and Katsaros…

Sarah Treanor (holding the tall stadial rod) and Laura Domyancich (peering through the siting level)  of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation make dune and beach profiling observations with Sarah Oktay (standing…

Alvin swimmer Patrick Neumann holds on tight and talks to the sub’s occupants as they rock and roll in windy conditions in January 2007 at the East Pacific Rise. Ken…

An Adélie penguin bends low to check on its eggs, which are snuggled into the warm skin and feathers between its legs (look closely and you can see an eggshell…

Engineering assistant Sean Whelan assembles a mooring hook (left) and acoustic release (yellow tube) for a tricky equipment recovery operation at sea. WHOI technicians and engineers have developed their own…

Technicians, scientists, and crew all chip in to put davit clamps onto the core barrel of the long core system on the research vessel Knorr in September 2007. The clamps…

WHOI postdoctoral fellow Jed Goldstone (left) teaches summer student fellows Thiago Parente (center) and Katie Barott to sample killifish near an EPA Superfund site in New Bedford Harbor. Goldstone and…

Undeterred by a snowstorm, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Michael Holcomb (red hood), research assistant Byron Pedler, and assistant scientist Ben Van Mooy (kneeling) recover experimental plates that had been suspended…