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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…

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. The Arctic…

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 in the ice.…

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 Cove of North…

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 was retrieved…