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Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Surface melt plays a significant role in the overall dynamic movements of the ice…

When scientists observed and analyzed four decades of hydrographic data, they found that tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters had become saltier over the course of 40 years (shown in top…

WHOI volunteer George LeRoy packs 70-year-old biological samples for shipping to the Zoologisk Museum in Copenhagen. WHOI biologists Mary Sears and Henry Bryant Bigelow had borrowed the Pacific Ocean specimens…

Rocky Geyer (left) and postdoctoral scholar Dave Ralston (now a WHOI assistant scientist) remove instruments from a mooring on the working deck of the research vessel Tioga in July 2005.…

Marine mammal specialist Michael Moore (left) and MIT/WHOI student Regina Campbell-Malone (now a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI and Brown University) use fine lines to suspend the skeleton of a right…

The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry is lowered into the North Atlantic for deep-ocean testing during a cruise on the R/V Oceanus in April 2008. Engineers are in the final stages…

A humpback whale dips just below the surface in the Hawaiian breeding grounds between Maui and Lanai. The whale approached researchers in response to their playback of a recording of…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program students wash dishes after a meal on a windjammer off the coast of Maine during the June 2007 field trip that capped the annual Geodynamics Seminar series.…

WHOI geologist Rob Evans (left) testifies before the Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, of the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2005. Each year, dozens of WHOI…

The research vessel Knorr and the Iselin Marine Facility serve as the backdrop for the first commencement ceremonies for the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in 1970. The program’s first four graduates…

Researchers aboard the R/V Oceanus affix a hose to the CTD rosette (frame) to collect large-volume water samples with a pump system during a May 2008 expedition in New England…

Joseph Keller of Stanford University prepares to take a swing at a pitch from George Veronis of Yale University on WHOI’s McKee Ballfield during a summer softball game. Keller and…

A cross-section of a marsh at Barn Island, Conn., shows light-colored layers of sand laid down by Hurricane Carol in 1954 (at 10 centimeters) and the 1938 Hurricane (at 14…

Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Thousands of lakes form every summer on top of Greenland’s glaciers, as sunlight and…

WHOI microbiologist John Waterbury examines phytoplankton samples in his lab in the Stanley W. Watson Biogeochemistry Building. Today Waterbury is joining MIT biologist Penny Chisholm and WHOI biologist Robert Olson…

Researchers from WHOI and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography carry an instrument tower into the surf near La Jolla, California, to measure the movement of water beneath the breaking waves.…

WHOI employees, benfactors, and shipyard workers gathered on March 29, 2004, for the ceremonial blessing and launch of the coastal research vessel Tioga. The name Tioga comes from the Iroquois…

For several weeks in the summers of 2006 and 2007, researchers from WHOI and the University of Washington camped on top of Greenland’s ice sheet in order to study the…

Born in Holzminden, Germany, on May 23, 1927, Holger Jannasch pioneered the field of deep-sea microbiology. Inspired by the condition of the food in the infamous Alvin lunch box (1969),…