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The fantail and decks of the research vessel Chain are stuffed with buoys while docked at the WHOI pier in 1958. Once a U.S. Navy salvage vessel, Chain made 129…

Mike Gagne (in the basket) and Nate Lavoie (on the mast) from WHOI’s ship operations group work to remove unused cable, mounts, and antennas from the top of the research…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Carly Strasser sieves mud to find juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) in the summer of 2005 in an estuary in Calves Pasture, Barnstable, Mass. Strasser, now…

When an earthquake occurs, rocks at a fault line slip or rupture, and a portion of Earth’s crust physically moves. That releases energy, and two types of seismic waves radiate…

The coastal research vessel Tioga takes shelter in late June at a dock in Rockport Harbor, Mass., where the tides can rise and fall by as much as eight feet.…

Research assistant Justin Ossolinski (yellow) and assistant scientist Ben Van Mooy (orange) examine Niskin bottles stowed in an incubation tank on the stern of the research vessel Oceanus during an…

Six of the seven founding members of the annual Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) summer program met in Woods Hole on June 27 for a 50th anniversary celebration. In addition, the…

WHOI engineering assistants Jim Dunn (center) and Jim Ryder (right) and a member of the crew of the research vessel Connecticut deploy a right whale autodetection buoy in Massachusetts Bay…

Viewed end-on, the diatom Coscinodiscus is a study in symmetry, reminiscent of a sunflower. WHOI biologists Dawn Moran and Becky Gast have been collecting, imaging, and cataloguing protists (protozoa and algae)…

Senior research assistant Ellen Roosen (white hard hat) puts a pin in a box corer in preparation for deployment over the side of the research vessel Oceanus in June 2008.…

Richard “Dick” Edwards plants dynamite in the mechanical shark prop used in filming the classic movie Jaws. During his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II and the…

To call a penguin flightless is to ignore its abilities underwater. As penguins evolved, their wings grew shorter and their feathers smaller, and they eventually lost the ability to fold…

Craig Dickson, second mate for the research vessel Atlantis, and Matthew Barton, WHOI mulitimedia coordinator, drive in for a close up of the Alvin submersible in April 2008 during deployment operations…

Glaciologist Ian Joughin hustles toward a chopper as it lands on top of the Greenland ice sheet in July 2007. Joughin and several colleagues from WHOI and the University of…

A computer screen capture shows a map of the sampling locations for the research crew sailing on the RV Oceanus in May and June 2008 to study harmful algal blooms…

WHOI coastal oceanographers Britt Raubenheimer (blue-purple wetsuit) and Steve Elgar (black suit at right) join colleagues from three institutions in setting up instrument tripods and cables in the surf zone…

WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian (left) and U.S. Coast Guard marine science technician Daniel Gaona deploy a ring net from the icebreaker Healy in the summer of 2003. Ashjian and colleagues…

MIT/WHOI graduate student Maya Bhatia sets up an incubation experiment to measure carbon in the meltwaters that stream and pool across the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Bhatia’s advisors…