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Waves, currents, sand grain sizes, sandbar configurations, water tablelevels beneath the beach, and other phenomena combine in complex ways to cause very different patterns along the same beach. (Photo by…

Puma and Jaguar are autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to overcome the technical challenges that preclude under-ice operations in the Arctic Ocean. Puma will detect and track hydrothermal vent plumes…

A North Atlantic right whale dives in search of food near Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.(Photo by Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The foredeck of the Canadian icebreaker Louis St. Laurent during a mooring deployment in the Arctic Ocean during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment. (Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic…

Adult barnacles, about one year old, form plates to hold their body together and for protection. (Photo by Vicke Starczak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Greg Packard (right) puts a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle through pre-launch checks before testing near Woods Hole. The vehicle, capable of diving to 600 meters, carries sensors for underwater…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sheri Simmons collects samples in Salt Pond in Falmouth, Mass., for studies of a previously unknown bacterium that incorporates magnetic minerals to make an internal…

Using optical and electron microscopes, scientists can detect how crystals within rocks change their sizes, shapes, and orientations when the rocks are subjected to heat and stress. These atomic-scale changes…

The 35,570-square-foot biogeochemistry building, now called the Stanley W. Watson Laboratory, under construction in 2005. The Watson Lab is one of two new laboratories on the Institution’s Quissett Campus, part…

Crabs thrive in a new vent site on the Galapagos Rift found in 2005. Its concave shape and lineage to previously found sites called Rose Garden and Rosebud–suggested the name…

At the experiment site at the Tica Vent on the East Pacific Rise, basalt panels were placed in the center of a tubeworm colony to see if larvae would settle…

Alexis Jackson (in blue) and Carly Strasser, WHOI Summer Student Fellows, sieve mud in Barnstable Harbor (MA) to collect juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) for population studies.(Photo by Tom Kleindinst,…

Ship strikes threaten the survival of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. About 300 to 350 animals remain. This photo was taken in 2004 during fieldwork in the Bay of…

Rising 4,360 meters (14,300 feet) from the seafloor off Samoa, Vailulu’u looks like an underwater version of Mount Fuji. (Courtesy Stan Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

In a painting of a hydrothermal chimney named Hulk on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a camera mounted on the remotely operated vehicle Jason II captures high-resolution images using light…