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In December 2010, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry, was in the Gulf of Mexico helping investigate possible impacts from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The cruise marked […]

Probably the most familiar jellies are jellyfish, such as the Nausithoe punctata (above). Jellyfish are predators that use tentacles studded with stinging cells to catch and kill their prey, […]

Pilots and scientists controlling the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason work from a darkened control room to monitor Jason’s instruments and video feed. The Jason control room is made […]

Tom Lanagan of WHOI (right) and Paul Walsczak of Oregon State University (facing camera) insert a section of pipe into the barrel of the Long Core during a research […]

Three captains of the original Atlantis meet on deck: (left to right) Scott Bray, John Pike, and Adrian Lane. Lane was master of Atlantis from 1956 to 1962, then […]

WHOI researchers struggle to prepare a Bodman bottle for deployment during a cruise on the R/V Crawford in the late 1950s. Marine chemist Vaughan Bowen helped develop the sampling […]

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin points to the highest watermarks on the wall of a house destroyed by a devastating tsunami following the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off the […]

Flags flying, R/V Knorr steams down Vineyard Sound towards the WHOI dock and home, after crossing the Atlantic from the Azores in July 2010. A yellow “quarantine” flag, flown […]

Nick Loomis, a graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, grew up in the farmlands of Nebraska, far from any ocean. As a result, he had little exposure to […]

Alvin recovery swimmer Jim McGill from the crew of the R/V Atlantis dives from the vehicle at sunset during a 28-day cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. Led by […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch carries tubes containing cultures of Aureococcus anophagefferens, which has been responsible for brown tides along heavily populated coastlines of the eastern U.S. and […]

Research vessels like the R/V Knorr need to be flexible. Depending on the objectives of each expedition, the ship might be outfitted with any number of moving parts that […]

In March 2010, WHOI researchers journeyed to the sea ice off the coast of Barrow, Alaska, to test whether an untethered underwater vehicle called REMUS could be sent into […]

Looking down the barrel of the WHOI Long Core reveals a full moon trailing behind R/V Knorr in January 2010. The ship was in transit from Tampa to […]