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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…

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 shows a…

Jeff Standish, a recent graduate of the MIT/WHOI joint graduate program in oceanography, visits a famous location during a break from studies of the Gakkel Ridge, part of a mountain…

A tow sled with air guns is lifted from its cradle for deployment from the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent during the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project in 2006. Scientists from…

Mount Augustine, near Homer, Alaska, spews ash and steam into the glow of the sunset. Five ocean bottom seismometers were deployed in February 2006 in Cook Inlet (around the volcanic…

Every December, as the elves bustle in the workshop, the carolers croon in the village, and Santa checks his list, the WHOI Jingle Bell Joggers make their rounds to spread…

WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh (center) helps deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) SeaBED in the Aegean Sea during recent archaeological studies. Singh took part in the Project PHAEDRA 2006 expedition…

Workers set up scaffolding around the stern A-frame of R/V Atlantis. The frame and winch system is used to deploy and recover the research submersible Alvin, which is nearly 17…

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 the game-fish…

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 longest in…

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 11…

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 cruise in…

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 winter…