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Diving safety officer Terry Rioux (shown here in his office) is responsible for all day-to-day aspects of scuba diving at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), including review and enforcement of…

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) research vessels Chain and Atlantis at the WHOI dock in 1958. Atlantis was the first WHOI research vessel and the first ship built specifically for…

John Lund, left, and Ben Hodges work in the glider lab on a Spray glider, an autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV. The Spray glider—about six and a half feet long…

Mark Roberts works on the gas ion source of the Continuous Flow Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (CFAMS), a Carbon 14 measurement system at WHOI. CFAMS was designed specifically for the continuous…

WHOI’s new deep-diving autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry was launched from the research vessel Atlantis off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif., in September 2009 to search for cold seeps—naturally occurring…

Senior Scientist Jian Lin (in blue shirt) and colleagues examine geological evidence of past earthquakes near the Mediterranean coast of Algeria. A study of the interplay of stresses surrounding a…

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, the second director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, sees Edmund Watson and others off on a 1950 Gulf Stream cruise aboard a boat called Seal. Iselin,…

Earthquakes, including the recent major quakes in Chile and Haiti, release energy that radiates two kinds of seismic waves: compression waves (P waves) and shear waves (S waves). P waves…

A Spray Glider climbs a wave on the sea surface. The gliders, which are robotic submarines that navigate underwater without a human crew onboard and without cables connecting them to…

A February 2010 sunrise illuminates the entrance to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Quissett campus. WHOI received funding earlier this year for a new addition to the campus —…

The modem for the newly developed optical communications system is mounted for testing onto the Nereus, WHOI’s new hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV). The system, devised by a team led…

The Autonomous Benthic Explorer, affectionately known as ABE, was one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships. First launched in 1995, ABE…

WHOI scientist Joan Bernhard — shown here in a cold van subsampling multicores for FLEC (Fluorescently Labeled Embedded Core) analyses —  and colleagues from Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute tested…

All paths are clear leading to the Stanley W. Watson Laboratory following a February 2010 snowfall. The 35,570-square-foot facility—located on the WHOI Quissett campus—opened its doors in 2005,  providing new…