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Diego Mello, first mate of the research vessel Oceanus, helps WHOI postdoctoral scholar Tim Shanahan (right) get into his ‘Gumby’ survival suit during a safety drill. Whether it is your…

A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters. Behind Byrd fly the 12 flags of the original Antarctic Treaty…

The Woods Hole Ocean Science Exhibit Center, which has just opened for the 2008 season, is a great place to explore the diversity of WHOI’s research, learn a little local…

Technicians and ship’s crew members deploy the top float of a subsurface mooring in the North Atlantic in Aprill 2006. Since 2002, WHOI researchers led by John Toole have maintained…

Scientific gear and underwater vehicles crowd the fantail of the research vessel Knorr during a 2001 expedition to explore the mid-ocean ridge in the Indian Ocean.  The first-generation remotely operated…

Emperor Hirohito of Japan (foreground) prepares to view samples through a microscope in the laboratory of WHOI geochemist Susumu Honjo (standing) during a visit in 1975.  An amateur marine biologist…

MIT/WHOI graduate student Desirée Plata prepares a flame torch to seal samples for carbon isotope measurements in her lab experiments. Her research has shown that differently manufactured carbon nanotubes have…

Winds in Cape Crozier, Antarctica, tend to stream down the slopes from Mount Terror. The volcano got its name from Captain James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea and…

WHOI engineering assistants Kris Newhall, Will Ostrom, and Mike McCarthy prepare to deploy buoys during the North Atlantic Right Whale Monitoring Project in Cape Cod Bay in 2004. (Photo by…

Alex Pogue, a guest student working with paleoclimatologist Anne Cohen and geochemist Dan McCorkle, feeds baby quahogs in an experiment that tests the impact of ocean acidification on early shell…

The crew of the research vessel Knorr recovers a “elevator” during a 2001 cruise in the Dive and Discover series. Seafloor explorers use the system in tandem with the remotely…

A plucky Adelie penguin hurdles a meltwater stream that has been stained brown by the acres of guano it has trickled through. “The Adelie is this really tough little character,”…

A tiddlywinks game? A Jackson Pollock painting?  No, it’s a mobile hanging in a skylight of the McLean Laboratory on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic…

An Inupiat (native Alaskan) guide armed with a rifle stands watch while WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord works inside the tent to gather data during a recent sea ice…