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Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink (foreground) and Summer Student Fellow Jared Singer work in the new PicoTrace Clean Lab, used for the most challenging trace element and inorganic isotope […]

R/V Oceanus (foreground), operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and R/V Endeavor, operated by the University of Rhode Island, await loading at WHOI’s Iselin Pier. The third sister ship […]

Graduate Student Brenna McLeod takes advantage of a brief moment of “shore leave” on Peterman Island, Antarctica, to visit with the locals. The icebreaker Laurence M. Gould (background) […]

WHOI Summer Student Fellows Noah Planavsky and Nicholas Jachowski learn seafloor sediment coring techniques from Bruce Tripp on the R/V Tioga. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Geologist Adam Soule sits on his throne of lava in Hawaii. The formation has been built by two decades of volcanic activity: Lava streams down the cliff in […]

Graduate student Jon Woodruff opens a sediment core collected in August 2006 from a coastal lagoon on the remote Japanese island of Kamikoshiki. The lagoon contains material deposited during […]

Jacques Cousteau’s M/V Calypso calls at the WHOI dock, circa 1959.  Bigelow Laboratory is at rear center, Smith Laboratory atright. Cousteau had a long association with the Institution andthe late Director […]

A sediment core on the deck of R/V Atlantis, circa 1956. Cores provide clues to historical changes in climate, circulation patterns, volcanic eruptions, and other events recorded […]

“Most octopuses will let you get close, maybe even touch them, but normally they’ll try to run once the manipulator gets close,” said Alvin pilot Bruce Strickrott, of […]

Frank Bahr deploys a conductivity/temperature/density instrument, or CTD, from the coastal research vessel Tioga off the New Jersey coast during a recent experiment. The instrument measures water […]

The handling system for the new long core sampler was recently installed on R/V Knorr at the WHOI dock.  The system, able to collect sediment cores up to […]

John Collins (left) and Jeff McGuire examine ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) outside WHOI’s Iselin Marine Facility. These instruments are deployed on the sea floor to record ground movements from undersea […]

The human occupied submersible Alvin rests in its hangar aboard research vessel Atlantis. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutiion)

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Matt Jackson collected a fresh sample of lava during a geodynamics field trip to Hawaii in 2004.  Jackson received a research award in 2005 from the […]

WHOI Associate Scientist Rebecca Gast examines a gel used to sort and examine fragments of DNA from microorganisms found in water and sediment samples. The fragments help biologists determine […]

The original R/V Atlantis main mast and sails. The 142-foot steel-hulled vessel, namesake of the space shuttle, sailed for the Institution from 1931 to 1964. (Photo by Robert Munns, […]

A thin layer of snow coats melt ponds in the Beaufort Sea, being sampled for a wide range of water properties. (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)