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A research team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) hikes along a lava ridge in Antarctica during an expedition to study how the volcanic landscape formed and has changed. From…

Members of the WHOI Upper Ocean Processes Group conduct at-sea repairs on an ASIMET buoy in the Gulf Stream that was probably damaged by a ship. Sensors on the buoy…

Engineering assistant Daniel Bogorff works to clean a fouled (and furry-looking) Ultramoor Data Capsule Magazine that had just been recovered from its mooring station on Line W between Woods Hole…

Erik Cordes retrieves specimens of tubeworms from the submersible Alvin‘s sample basket during the current expedition in the Gulf of Mexico, which ends today. Cordes, an ecologist from Temple University,…

To expand research into icy waters, in 2003 WHOI engineers designed the Arctic Winch, which can reach up to get critical measurements near the icy surface, but stay out of…

Daily commutes often begin with getting your vehicle out of the garage. And so it is even for the human-occupied submersible Alvin. The 35,000-pound sub slides on a railway out…

In the early 1960s, the WHOI Buoy Group struggled to keep its moorings intact and its instruments functioning in the harsh ocean environment. Some equipment, such as this toroid, or…

A net towed through the Bering Sea yielded a catch of copepods, tiny shrimp-like animals that are critical links in the productive Arctic Ocean food chain. In spring 2009, WHOI…

In 2007, WHOI biologist Darlene Ketten (in blue), turtle physiology expert Jeanette Wyneken of Florida Atlantic University (in white) and a team of biologists and veterinarians conducted a necropsy of…

In 1960, WHOI researchers on the research vessel Crawford devised a novel way of measuring seafloor slope. They took sonar depth measurements from two fixed points about 50 feet apart:…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program students (left to right) Scott Haven, Adam Trainer, Nicholas Macfarlane, Daniel Amrhein and Melissa Moulton retrieve a water sampler during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise aboard…

Alvin pilots kick off their traditional “skins party,” during a Dive and Discover expedition to the Galápagos Rift in May 2005. After the last dive of every expedition the pilots…

In September 2009, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry explored the ocean bottom off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., for underwater methane seeps. Go to WHOI’s Dive and Discover…