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Engineering tech Andy Billings (left) and Alvin pilot Anthony Tarantino finish securing the submersible on the deck of the research vessel Atlantis.  Next week, researchers diving in […]

The WHOI research vessel Knorr is raised into the Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Florida, in March 2005. All ships in the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)—of which […]

The new Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle meets the submersible Alvin during a testing expedition off Bermuda in April 2006. Sentry is a robotic underwater vehicle used for exploring […]

Summer Student Fellows and Minority Student Fellows enjoy a sampling trip onboard the 60-foot coastal research vessel Tioga. The fellowships, awarded to science and engineering students who have […]

MIT/WHOI graduate students and faculty explored a bubbling, sulfur-encrusted hot spring in June 2006 during an educational field trip to Iceland. The trip capped WHOI’s Geodynamcs Program, a […]

Stainless steel “core catchers” are fresh off the production line. These hand-made fabrications are inserted in the bottom of various sediment coring devices. They open up when the […]

Summer Student Fellow Thiago Martins-Parente, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), removes scup from a holding tank in the recently renovated wet lab in Redfield […]

Ice covered much of the Arctic Ocean during the Beaufort Gyre experiment expedition of 2006. Research at both the North and South Polar Regions will be a focus of […]

Will Ostrom (blue hard hat), a senior engineering assistant in the WHOI Department of Physical Oceanography, and Joe Alvernes, a crewmember of the fishing vessel Nobska, scrape mussels from […]

Dick Backus, a WHOI scientist emeritus and curator emeritus of the Herbarium at the Marine Biological Laboratory/WHOI Library, works on identifying another plant specimen with Pam Polloni, acting […]

When Mark Spear stepped out of the submersible Alvin as WHOI’s newest deep-sea pilot, fellow pilot Gavin Eppard greeted him with a traditional baptism on the deck of […]

There must be an ideal scientists’ office…where all of the textbooks, journals, research reports, and data sets are neatly filed away. But that is probably a mathematical improbability… (Besides, […]

Summer Student Fellow Maya Yamato measures the head of a minke whale–Balaenoptera acutorostrata–that WHOI researchers were asked to investigate in the new necropsy lab at WHOI’s Marine […]

A sediment corer dangles in the evening sun before being lowered to the seafloor in the Gulf of Maine. Researchers from WHOI, NOAA, and several institutions sampled the muck […]

From the roof of Redfield Laboratory you can get a panoramic view of the village of Woods Hole, Eel Pond, and several buildings of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and […]

Summer Student Fellow Kira Krumhansl holds collection trays for barnacle studies in Eel Pond, Woods Hole. WHOI researchers are investigating the timing of when barnacle larvae […]

Senior Research Specialist Dan Frye and Senior Engineering Assistant Will Ostrom savor another successful buoy and mooring deployment by the WHOI mooring and engineering team.  The research team […]

Debris from a Roman shipwreck site in the Mediterranean Sea provides clues to marine archaeologists about ancient trade routes. The photo-mosaic was made from dozens of images and […]