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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…

A juvenile copepod, Calanus glacialis, collected on a recent Arctic cruise, is about the size of the tip of a pencil. The shrimp-like animals are an important part of the…

The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was the first deep AUV developed by WHOI engineers. With its ability to maintain a stable and constant altitude over changing seafloor topography, ABE can make…

Scientists and engineers check out the model of the personnel sphere for the Alvin replacement, expected in 2009. The mock-up enables users as well as engineers to visualize changes and…

Ellen Roosen, Susan Humphris, and Jim Broda (left to right in this panorama) go over plans, now completed, for expanding the sediment core library at WHOI’s McLean Laboratory. The library…

The Fenno family in front oftheir summer home, circa 1930. Purchased by WHOI in 1968 as part of theQuissett Campus, Fenno House today houses offices of the Director, Communications and Development staff,…

Pierre-J.Gauthier collects gas from the rim of Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua during a March 2006 expedition. Gauthier, a French scientist, and WHOI geochemist Ken Sims sample gas from volcanoes worldwide…

WHOI scientist Claudia Cenedese (in dark shirt) simulates fluid flow and eddies around seamounts using a rotating table and colored dyes. Rachel Bueno de Mesquita (in pink) is a visiting…

WHOI geologist Jian Lin studies a sample of seafloor collected near the site of the December 2004 earthquake off the island of Sumatra that resulted in a devastating tsunami in…

The new AUV Sentry is lowered into the water for shallow tests off the WHOI dock in late 2005. The vehicle was successfully tested in deep water in April. (Photo…