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Jeff Dusenberry stands in front of Scylla, a high performance computer cluster containing a total of 984 processors that was installed at WHOI in June 2011. Named after the many-headed…

Crawford, a former U.S. Coast Guard cutter, came to WHOI in 1956. Crawford made 175 cruises, worked in the North and South Atlantic, and carried specialized gear for studying hurricanes.…

Though small, slow, and described by one author as looking a bit like a floating junkyard, Lulu secured a spot in WHOI history as the original support vessel for the…

On the morning of December 23, R/V Knorr tied up at the WHOI dock after an 11-day crossing from  Cape Verde. The ship left Woods Hole on November 6 on…

In 1962, WHOI purchased a vessel named Explorer from a marine salvage yard. To avoid confusion with other vessels of the same name, the vessel was christened Gosnold, to honor…

To search for evidence of hydrocarbon plumes emanating from the stricken Deepwater Horizon well in 2010, a WHOI research team used a technique called a “tow-yo.” From the research vessel…

The U.S. Navy built Chain in the 1940s to rescue, tow, and salvage damaged ships in the Pacific. It came to WHOI in 1958 to support oceanographic research. After the…

Doctoral students Gillian Gruen (left) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and Heidi Berkenbosch of the University of Tasmania, along with journalist Julian Thompson, study freshly-dredged rocks…

Caryn joined WHOI in the late 1940s and made 110 cruises, mostly along the East Coast through the Caribbean, and around Bermuda. The vessel was used for a variety of…

While steaming south from San Diego in August 2011, engineers prepared the remotely operated vehicle Jason to study biology and geology at a 3,600-foot volcano on the East Pacific Rise…

Named for a local starfish, the original Asterias was the Institution’s first coastal research vessel. Asterias was built in 1931 in Fairhaven, Mass., from white and southern hard pine, and was…

Pancake ice covers the sea on one of the last sunrises that scientists and crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy‘s saw in the northern Chukchi Sea, where the…

Since arriving at WHOI in 1970, research vessel Knorr has traveled more than a million miles—the equivalent of forty trips around Earth. During a 1991 overhaul, the ship was cut in…

Atlantis II arrived at WHOI in 1963 and made immediate, if unexpected, headlines. Its second voyage, intended to be a routine biology cruise, was interrupted with the news that the…

On December 7, at the Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, WHOI’s Joe Pedlosky received the 2011 Maurice Ewing Medal. The medal is one of earth science’s most prestigious…