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Sunrise comes to Sachs Harbour, a village on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic that in 2014 was a research hub and equipment center for scientists studying sea ice. WHOI…

Research cruises, like life, are full of surprises. The ocean can offer up unexpected storms—or in this case, the freshest sushi you’ll ever taste. Aboard the WHOI-operated research vessel Neil…

Kathy Patterson, manager of the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center, gives a demonstration about water density at a recent reception for members of the WHOI Associates Program and supporters. The program offers…

Sometimes you have to get into the remote environment where marine organisms live to study them: WHOI biologists Larry Madin and Richard Harbison were part of a small group in…

In the 1950s William C. Schroeder was photographed displaying a deep-sea fish called a chimaera that he had collected. Schroeder—a fisheries biologist who held positions at WHOI and Harvard and…

Meet a curious single-celled organism called Mesodinium rubrum. They are shaped like “8”s with hairlike cilia around them that they use to swim in the ocean. They usually graze on…

When WHOI’s Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) was established in 1983, WHOI scientists Bob Ballard (right) and Dana Yoerger used a small vehicle called RPV-430, built by Benthos, Inc., as a…

For such small, delicate creatures, they pack mighty painful stings. Known as a clinging jellyfish because they attach to seagrasses and seaweeds, Gonionemus are found along Pacific and Atlantic coast…

WHOI engineer Amy Kukulya attaches a camera to a specially equipped REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle while being filmed for the New England nightly newsmagazine, Chronicle, on Boston’s ABC affiliate.…

This maze of electronics was part of WHOI’s first at-sea computer, an IBM machine installed on R/V Chain in 1962. A special air conditioning unit had to be installed to…

On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber collided with a tanker during mid-air refueling off the coast of Spain, resulting in the loss of four hydrogen bombs.…

WHOI biologist Craig Taylor, left, and WHOI engineer Fred Thwaites work on the latest generation in a family of instruments called SIDs—Submersible Incubation Devices. Because it’s impossible to fully recreate…

WHOI geochemist Chris German (left) and Louis Whitcomb, chair of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, along with Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred Wegner Institute, display Explorer’s Club Flag…

WHOI engineering assistant Chris Basque (foreground) pays out a tag line from the stern of the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer to a 62-inch flotation sphere he just helped deploy while other members…