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In a few hours, the X-ray flourescence core scanner, the first of its kind in the United States, takes digital images and X-rays of sediment cores while detecting the presence…

The Sun casts a warm glow off an Antarctic peak into icy yet serene waters. (Photo by Laurence Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Summer Student Fellow Ratsirin (Prae) Supcharoen checks on anexperiment in chemist Matt Charette’s laboratory. Charettestudies submarine groundwater discharge into the coastal environment. The flow of groundwater into the ocean iscritical because…

Princeton graduate student Nick Swanson-Hysell and colleagues visited the mile-wide, 790-foot-deep Lonar Crater created by a meteorite in the Deccan Traps, an ancient lava flow covering more than 200,000 square…

A researcher holds three deep-sea crustaceans collected by MOCNESS, a net and environmental sensing system, from the waters west of the Antarctic Peninsula during Dive and Discover Expedition 10.  Shown…

John Kemp powerwashes mooring spheres after their recovery from the Arctic Ocean. The spheres were part of moorings deployed in the Beaufort Gyre for circulation studies in 2005. (Photo by…

Tetjana Ross (in red) and Andone Lavery preparing to do a profile with a fast-response temperature-conductivity probe, which characterizes the double-diffusive interface. Lab experiments like this enable scientists to better understand…

A ctenophore (pronounced teen-o-fore), or comb jelly, is a  transparent jelly-like animal often spherical or bell-shaped. When light strikes the eight rows of comb-like paddles used for movement, it is…

Hoisting a piston tube off R/V Atlantis (circa 1949). Collection of sediment samples from the seafloor with various types of coring devices began in the 1930s and continues today.  More…

Research Vessel Atlantis, May 1997. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

R/V Atlantis Steward Carl Wood leaps from DSV Alvin during a recent launch of the sub. Swimmers help secure the vehicle for each launch and recovery. (Photo by Amy Nevala,…

Sulphur coated the frame on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason during a recent cruise to the western Pacific.  Jason captured close-up images of volcanic eruptions and was bathed in…

Ian Hanley prepares the 60-foot R/V Tioga for arrival during a break in mooring recovery operations on the Merrimack River. (Photo by James Kent, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Crabs cover the sample basket on the front of DSV Alvin during 2002 dives near Patton Seamount in the Gulf of Alaska. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Dennis McGillicuddy (left) and Cabell Davis with a video plankton recorder (VPR) designed to work on the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. The VPR is an underwater video microscope system that…

The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Searover is deployed off the starboard side of the polar research vessel Nathaniel Palmer near Alexander Island, Antarctica. Searover captured video imagery underneath the ice…

Deployment of an underwater camera off R/V Atlantis(circa 1948). Maurice Ewing and his  student Allyn Vine produced the first photographs of the deep seafloor in 1940 during seismic experiments aboard Atlantis,…

Ken Rand and Diego Mello (foreground) work on the deck of R/V Oceanus during an April 2006 cruise in the Northwest Atlantic. The pair helped recover moorings as part of operations…

Panorama of the sample preparation lab for radiocarbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at WHOI. An addition completed in 2004  houses a newly designed…

A CTD (bottom) with rosette for conductivity/temperature/depth measurements is readied for deployment from R/V Oceanus during a winter 2005 cruise to study circulation in continental shelf and slope waters north…