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Researchers and fishermen examine a catch of tuna as it is loaded onto the WHOI dock from the R/V Crawford in November 1960. WHOI scientist Frank Mather started […]

Research Specialist Jim Broda—and 35 fellow WHOI employees—hold a prototype of his newly developed long coring pipe. The new “long-coring” system being installed on R/V Knorr is the […]

A pod of porpoises follows alongside the Yamacraw in March 1958. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution leased the vessel from the U.S. Coast Guard during 1957 and 1958 and made […]

WHOI scientists Brendan Foley (left) and Rich Camilli (center), along with Greek colleague Dimitris Sakellarious (right), take a break on the deck of R/V Aegaeo during a recent […]

An iceberg stands between the Antarctic Research Support Vessel Laurence M. Gould and  Palmer Station, as viewed from the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.  Researchers spent several weeks in the […]

Researchers and crew on the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Pierre Radisson prepare to deploy a flotation sphere that is part of a sub surface mooring in Hudson Strait. […]

John Kemp (standing) with Kris Newhall prepare to drill a hole in the ice in the Beaufort Sea to test ice-melting equipment used to extract instruments frozen […]

WHOI Guest Students Catherine Carmichael (left) and Emily Peacock (from the Boston University Marine Program) collect samples at the site of the 1974 oil spill in Winsor […]

John Kemp is lowered by the ship’s crane to hook a group of floats, as part of the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment in 2005.  A 4,000-meter (13,123-foot) mooring […]

This artist’s concept shows the “deep-sea light post” alongside the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason (left) near a black smoker vent on the ocean floor. The light post […]

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 […]