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Biologist Larry Madin studies jellies, collected at sea and preserved in jars, in his lab. Gelantinous zooplankton (jellyfish to most of us), are a major link in the oceanic food…

Technicians repaired meteorological sensors, damaged by a ship strike, on a Gulf Stream buoy in April. The buoy is the first surface mooring in deep water to survive the wind,…

DSV Alvin pilot Anthony Tarantino takes a whack at a Whiffle ball during some rare down time aboard the R/V Atlantis. (Photo by Amy Nevala, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Biologists Jun Nishikawa from the University of Tokyo and Patricia Kremer from the University of Connecticut react with exaggerated delight to finding nearly 13 liters of their target animals, salps,…

Al Bradley (left) and Dana Yoerger, two of the inventors of the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE), dunked the autonomous underwater vehicle in the test well at the WHOI dock before…

Marine biologist Michael Moore and CT Technician Julie Arruda discuss CT images of a marine mammal with students. A new necropsy and scanner facility enhance the team’s ability to handle…

Research vessel Atlantis Bosun Wayne Bailey signals to a crew member during ship operations for the Galápagos Rift Expedition in May and June 2005. Crew members work closely with scientists…

Early image of the catamaran Lulu, the first support ship for the submersible Alvin (in foreground), circa 1964. The 105-foot Lulu was built in Woods Hole from surplus minesweeping pontoons and…

The submersible Alvin surfaces after a dive as support vessel Atlantis moves into position for recovery. A typical dive is 8-10 hours. Alvin has made more than 5,000 dives since…

WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner enters data from a variety of ocean instruments and tools into his laptop during a 2005 cruise off Cape Cod to investigate where and how whales…

R/V Chain sailed in the WHOI fleet from 1958 to 1975, when it was retired. Formerly a Navy salvage ship during World War II, Chain was converted in 1958 for oceanographic research.…

A steel worker signs a ceremonial construction beam for one of the new laboratories on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. State-of-the-art laboratory facilities formarine research and biogeochemistry were completed in late 2005. (Photo…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Mea Cook images a sediment core with an X-ray. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Al Plueddemann and Glen Gawarkiewicz prepare to launch REMUS, an autonomous underwater vehicle, from R/V Tioga during a survey in shallow water off Chatham, Mass., in early 2006. (Photo by…

This specimen of Athorybia, a siphonophore or colonial jellyfish, was collected recently from a Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise off the U.S. East Coast. Researchers found many new species in water…