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On a warm spring day in 1970, Capt. Emerson Hiller sailed R/V Knorr into Woods Hole for the first time (and did a smart pirouette to demonstrate the ship’s handling).…

The Rio Tecolutla, formerly R/V Knorr, docked in Woods Hole for the final time last week when it returned from a training cruise with a crew of Mexican Navy personnel. Knorr was decomissioned in 2014…

R/V Atlantis was in dry dock in Charleston, S.C., earlier this year for scheduled maintenance. Today, the oceanographic research vessel and support ship for the submersible Alvin is back at work…

Members of the 2015 class of Summer Student Fellows posed for a reunion photo during a reception hosted by the Academic Programs Office at the recent Ocean Sciences Meeting in New…

Scientists find ways to have a little fun amid the relentless hard work on long research cruises. Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Dan Ohnemus pokes his head out of…

WHOI microbiologist Ginny Edgcomb (background) studies organisms that live deep beneath the seafloor. In January 2016, Edgcomb was in the Indian Ocean aboard the drillship JOIDES Resolution, on the first…

These tiny marine snails are called pteropods (“wing-foot”), or sometimes “sea butterflies,” because of their winglike swimming appendages. Pteropods are plankton that drift in the ocean, providing food for fish…

Over its half-century career, the submersible Alvin has allowed scientists to discover many previously unknown deep-sea creatures, including tubeworms, hagfish, and the Yeti crab. An Alvin pilot collected a sample…

Pilot Chris Lathan adjusts a data logger in Alvin’s wiring harness during a recent major overhaul of the submersible’s systems. The “birdcage,” a scaffold mockup of the equivalent structure in the…

WHOI biologists Aran Mooney and Laela Sayigh are leading a multi-year effort to study the “soundscape” of Horseshoe Shoals in Nantucket Sound—the proposed site of one of the country’s first…

WHOI geologist Jeff Donnelly (left) of the Coastal Systems Group and actor Ian Somerhalder hold a sediment core during recent filming for an episode of the documentary TV series “Years of…

This purple fish, Bythites hollisi, was named after Alvin pilot Ralph Hollis, who captured one in 1988 with a net held in Alvin’s manipulator arm. Bythites hollisi is one of many deep-sea…

In 1968, Alvin flooded and sank to 5,000 ft. depth when its cradle and support cables snapped while it was being lowered into the water. All three crewmembers escaped unharmed, but…

Mike Singleton, third mate on WHOI’s newest research vessel, R/V Neil Armstrong reviewed charts of the Panama Canal prior to passing from the Pacific to the Caribbean in December as part…

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) docking station is prepared for deployment from R/V Atlantis. The dock was successfully deployed in October 2015 at the base of the Pioneer Array’s offshore…

MIT-WHOI graduate student Laura Stevens leaps over a stream of meltwater on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Stevens was part of team (including WHOI scientists Sara Das, Mark Behn, and Jeff…