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From a few bits of wood, researchers hoped to prove the presence of a notorious criminal. The wood came from the bottom of the Atlantic, off the coast of North…

WHOI researchers prepare to make a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) survey of an old shipwreck that washed up on the Cape Cod National Seashore in Wellfleet, Mass. in March…

WHOI multimedia specialist Matt Barton installs a camera above an osprey nest outside of the Rinehart Coastal Research Laboratory on the Institution’s Quissett campus. For the sixth consecutive year, the…

The Clothing Distribution Center of the U.S. Antarctic Program in New Zealand provides one-stop shopping for polar explorers. If you are going south on their watch, then you are going…

Seated inside the control van for the remotely operated vehicle Jason, pilot Scott Hansen (background) and chief scientist Bill Chadwick (Oregon State University) work to collect samples from the hydrothermal…

Today marks the second anniversary of the WHOI Image of the Day, our attempt to share the beauty, the characters, the behind-the-scenes action, and the personality of the Woods Hole…

Able-bodied seaman–and sometimes Alvin diver–Raul Martinez stands atop the submersible to relay directions and guide Alvin’s pilot into position for recovery by the research vessel Atlantis. (Photo by Lance Wills,…

A research team from WHOI moves out along a ridge above the Koettlitz Glacier in Antarctica. The sun is due north over the Ross Sea, meaning it’s midday. Joint Program…

Engineer Josh Eaton (lower left), biologist Cabell Davis (upper left), and postdoctoral scholar Qiao Hu maneuver the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR) for calibration testing in a tank in a Woods…

WHOI mail distribution supervisor Patrick Harrington (foreground), with help from Eric Drange, works to sort and deliver the institution’s mail.  In 2007, the WHOI mailroom processed more than 63,000 pieces…

Meteorologists Tom Horst (National Center for Atmospheric Research) and Jim Edson (visiting scientist at WHOI, full time at University of Connecticut) hold tight to an array of acoustic anemometers as…

Bruce Strickrott, Alvin pilot and expedition leader for a winter 2007 cruise on the research vessel Atlantis, prepares for the launch of the submersible into the Pacific Ocean near the…

Scientists can’t observe magma moving beneath the seafloor, so WHOI geologist Glenn Gaetani makes his own. He subjects tiny capsules of powder (with a composition similar to the rocks in…

WHOI plankton ecologist Heidi Sosik (center, back to the camera) stands on the fantail of the coastal research vessel Tioga and explains ocean observatories and coastal dynamics to reporters participating…

Longtime WHOI employee—now officially a retiree who forgot that he’s not supposed to  be at work—George Tupper works on a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) water sampler in a Woods Hole workshop. Ocean…

Expedition leader Will Sellers evaluates oncoming ocean swells as the crew prepares to lower the remotely operated vehicle Jason to the Pacific’s Juan de Fuca Ridge. Now in its third…

In between launches of underwater vehicles in July 2007, Peter Winsor and researchers on the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition lowered the conductivity-temperature-depth probe in order to look for telltale chemical…