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Working off the coast of Baffin Island (in the Canadian Arctic), the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr backs up to an iceberg to retrieve a piece of equipment for the University…

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 Alvin will make…

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 WHOI is…

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 the deep…

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 completed their…

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 semester of…

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 core pipe…

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 Laboratory. The…

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 the…

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 a…

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 curator.  The…

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 R/V Atlantis.…

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, how…

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 Research Facility.  WHOI…

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 and sand…

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 the…

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 are released and when…

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 set Gumbymoor–an…