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Ship’s boatswain Pete Liarikos (left) and mooring specialist John Kemp huddle beneath the CLIMODE surface buoy as colleagues hold the lines. Liarikos and Kemp were working to secure the buoy…

In July 2007, a group of workers from the WHOI Facilities Department moved the display skeleton of a pilot whale a longtime fixture of the lobby of the Redfield Laboratory…

Massive ice blocks crowd the sides of the icebreaker Oden during a research expedition to the Arctic Ocean in July 2007. The ship plowed through the ice cap to makes…

Dave Morton of Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems, Inc., throws a sonobuoy hydrophone receiver over the side of the research vessel Endeavor during the Autonomous Wide Aperture for Cluster…

WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jessica Millar (left) and Skylar Bayer (right) work to disassemble a gravity corer after its recovery, while retired WHOI researcher and instructor Bruce Tripp looks on…

MIT graduate student Shichun Huang (sitting) joins MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Jessica Warren, Matthew Jackson, and Clare Williams on a tongue of pahoehoe (smooth) lava surrounded by aa (angular) lava…

Over the years, the Narwhal Hotel in Resolute Bay, Canada, has hosted adventurers, tourists, science teams, pilots, and oil, gas, and mineral prospectors from all over the world, a fact…

How do researchers pass the time, relieve some mounting tension, and try to keep warm while waiting for their robotic vehicles and instruments to come home? “It happens at least…

Mark Baumgartner and Melissa Patrician repair a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette on the coastal research vessel Tioga. The biologists use the CTD to detect the water properties and nutrients at various depths…

In the largest oceanographic field experiment in WHOI history, 62 moorings, 350 oceanographic sensors, 6 research ships, 100 tons of equipment, airplanes, satellites, undersea gliders, and more than 50 scientists…

The towed seafloor sampler Camper grabbed these volcanic rocks from the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean for study by WHOI geologist Susan Humphris and colleagues. Now that the 40-day expedition…

For several weeks each spring, Canadian researchers and logisticians from the Polar Continental Shelf Project (Canadian Energy, Mines, and Resources Department) open up their warehouse to American colleagues from the…

Jesse Austin-Breneman, a summer student fellow from MIT, prepares an experiment to calibrate an echo sounder in a flow tank. The sounder is used for measuring seafloor topography from autonomous…

Field engineers Rob Harper (right) and Bob Rich from Thermo Fisher Scientific pour liquid helium as they install a Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FT-ICR MS) in the Fye…

Through a series of field observations and laboratory experiments, graduate student Jennifer Culbertson, marine chemist Chris Reddy, and colleagues found that the burrowing behavior and other biological traits of salt…