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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)

Victor Bender works on an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS), used to record underwater earthquakes.  The instruments are part of the U.S. National Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool […]

Clothed in red neoprene “gumby suits,” participants in one of the Institution’s small boat  safety seminars have some fun during training.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The main lift line for the submersible Alvin is visible from the research vessel Atlantis A-frame.  The sub is generally recovered in the late afternoon. (Woods Hole Oceanographic […]

Researchers prepare the high-resolution profiler, or HRP, for deployment.  The instrument, used in ocean mixing studies, records temperature, salinity, pressure, and horizontal velocity 10 times per second on descent to […]

A member of the science party gets the traditional welcome home greeting after his first Alvin dive during an Atlantis cruise in the North Atlantic. (Photo courtesy Woods Hole […]