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MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Diane Poehls Adams (now a postdoc at the National Institutes of Health) prepares biological samples for genetic analysis in the spring of 2004. Poehls Adams worked…

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, a research team led by WHOI biologist Alfred Redfield investigated clam farming and the biology of softshell clams in a large harbor in…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Kjetil Våge operates a winch on the working deck of the research vessel Oceanus during an expedition in the North Atlantic in November 2007. Våge, Dave…

The Sun sets over the Atlantic Ocean near Andros Island, Bahamas, on April 19, 2008. Researchers from WHOI’s Acoustic Communications Group deployed and retrieved buoys—two are resting on the fantail…

WHOI biologist and veterinarian Michael Moore (red jacket) and David Taylor, a retired high school biology teacher and WHOI guest investigator, prepare to perform a necropsy on a right whale…

Scientists walk along the edge of a large canyon carved by meltwater stream flow across the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. The lines along the canyon wall show the…

Bill Schevill, left, founded the field of marine mammal bioacoustics just after World War II. When Bill Watkins, right, joined him at WHOI in 1958, they began what current WHOI…

Former MIT/WHOI graduate student Mea Cook (now a Professor at Williams College) examines a sediment core taken from the Bering Sea, along with her advisors Lloyd Keigwin (middle) and Jeff…

“I’ve never seen a cold penguin,” said ornithologist Grant Ballard of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. “It can be minus 30, and they’ll just be doing the same things they…

Workers at Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding in Somerset, Mass., assemble the aluminum hull of the 60-foot coastal research vessel Tioga in the summer of 2003. The aluminum “longitudinals” in the frame are…

Howard Johnson (seated, center), president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Paul Fye (seated, right), director of WHOI, sign a memorandum creating the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography…

WHOI researchers secure harness lines and observe a test of the new Sentry autonomous underwater survey vehicle in April 2008, a day before heading out into the North Atlantic for…

WHOI biologist Don Anderson (left) and oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy review the results of a computer simulation of the 2008 season for Alexandrium fundyense–a toxic form of algae–in New England waters,…

Glaciologist Ian Joughin of the University of Washington poses near a large fracture in the center of a recently drained basin of meltwater on top of the Greenland ice sheet.…

Four penguins march over a massive cornice on their way to a secluded part of the Cape Crozier colony, on the rim of the Ross Sea in Antarctica. The birds,…

WHOI geologist Alison Shaw tightens the screws on a mount of small olivine crystals that she has prepared for examination in the Northeast National Ion Microprobe Facility on WHOI’s Quissett…