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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…

WHOI Microbiologist Stanley W. Watson monitors the oxygen uptake of microbes in a seawater sample during an R/V Chain cruise in 1961. (Photo courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)

Physical oceanographer Ken Brink demonstrated his model trains as part of the employee arts and crafts exhibit at the Institution’s 75th anniversary celebration on October 1, 2005. Events celebrating the…

Tiny species like this Euphausid photographed in a drop of water are prey to larger organisms in the oceanic food chain. About the size of a fingernail, the shrimp-like creature…

Mary Lardie prepares samples from the 18th century pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge for carbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility. Remains of Blackbeard’s flagship were…

A SPAR buoy is tested off the WHOI dock before loading onto R/V Atlantis. Built in the WHOI shops, the buoy is the largest object beside the submersible ALVIN to…

Greg Packard prepares an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) REMUS equipped with synthetic aperture sonar for testing off the WHOI dock. Different sensors can be added to REMUS depending on the…

Alvin pilots take a photo break during the sub’s recent overhaul in Woods Hole, which happens once every three years. Front: Pat Hickey and Anton Zafereo, Middle: Anthony Tarantino, Gavin Eppard, MikeMcCarthy,…

Scientists from around the world gather each summer at WHOI’s Walsh Cottage in Woods Hole to participate in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program, a more than 50-year summer tradition. (Photo…

Like a field of water lilies, small pieces of ice cover the surface of the Antarctic Ocean. (Photo by Peter Wiebe, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)