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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) stopped at…

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 narrow pahoehoe…

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 intense…

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 Paul…

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 on the seafloor.…

“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 his encounter…

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 temperature, salinity (salt…

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 165 feet…

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 earthquakes. WHOI…

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 Institution’s OceanVentures Fund.…

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…

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, Woods Hole…

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 maintained and operated…