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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.)

Drill bits make an interesting pattern on the deck during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment in 2005. (Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Engineer Andy Bowen (in green) and Chris German, chief scientist for deep submergence, with ROV Jason during a maintenance period in Woods Hole. Jason is now at sea in the…

The Anything But a Boat Regatta, held at Great Harbor in Woods Hole, was among the Institution’s 75th anniversary activities in 2005. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The Tunnel Inspection Vehicle, photographed during a test in a Falmouthfacility, is a specialized REMUS built for the New York City Departmentof Environmental Protection to inspect the Delaware Aqueduct for leaks.(Photo by…

Associate Scientist Hanumant Singh (left) and student Zachary Berkowitzprepare the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) SeaBED for testing from the stern of  R/V Tioga in Woods Hole. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods…

The research vessel Knorr was launched on August 21, 1968, in Bay City, Michigan. The ship was delivered to WHOI in 1970 and was completely overhauled and lengthened by 34…

Mock up of the 42-foot sub Aluminaut,owned by Reynolds Aluminum and operated briefly by WHOI in the early 1960s. The sub, shown here at WHOI in 1961, helped retrieve Alvin…

The submersible Alvin‘s manipulator reaches toward a black smoker chimney at 17°S on the East Pacific Rise. The “black smoke” consists of an abundance of dark, fine-grained, suspended particles that…