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A cluster of Tevnia jerichonana tubeworms sprout from a “sandwich”—an artificial colonization surface made of the non-toxic plastic lexan. The sandwich was recovered from the seafloor after spending 11 months […]

Just off the WHOI pier, ice crowds Great Harbor in Woods Hole on January 27, 1945. Penzance Point looms in the background.
(Photo courtesy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic […]

Marine chemist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink prepares to enter the PicoTrace clean laboratory, which was built to offer scientists a contamination-free environment for analysis of ultra-trace-elements in their samples. The […]

The research submersible Alvin is lifted off of its sled and track as it is deployed from the R/V Atlantis in November 2007. The track system helps keep […]

Grey seals congregate and relax on Billingsgate Shoal, near Wellfleet, Mass. WHOI biologists Andrea Bogomolni and Michael Moore have joined colleagues in screening seals and other marine animals and their […]

The freshly painted bow of the research vessel Knorr gleams in the sunlight at the Atlantic Dry Dock in Jacksonville, Fla.,  in 2005. The ship was hauled out for […]

WHOI engineers Bob Brown and Tito Collasius (right) check the fit of the yellow outer skin over the lifting eye of the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle. In development […]

Polar bears are excellent swimmers and have been seen in open Arctic waters, as far as 110 kilometers (60 nautical miles) from land. The bears’ long, tapered bodies streamline them […]

WHOI engineer John Kemp, head of deck operations during the Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition, supervises Camper’s deployment off the fantail of Oden. The towed vehicle was mobilized to find  […]

WHOI engineer John Kemp (left) and oceanographer Peter Winsor make their way down the food line on the icebreaker Oden. On the Swedish icebreaker, the gravy […]

Skylar Bayer—a guest student in the WHOI Biology Department and a 2007 summer student fellow—is dwarfed by the expansive Pacific Ocean and the A-frame on the fantail […]

Maria Tausendfreund takes a water sample from a melt pond on top of an Arctic ice floe, which she will later analyze for microbes living in it. The graduate student […]

Josh Burton, a research assistant in the WHOI-operated National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (NOSAMS) facility adjusts the valves on a water-stripping vacuum line that removes dissolved inorganic carbon […]

During September 2007 sea trials on the research vessel Knorr, WHOI technicians and researchers tested the powerful articulated hydraulic grapple that holds the ship’s new “long-core” system during […]

Engineer Rod Catanach steadies the Sentry autonomous underwater vehicle as it is lowered for tests off the WHOI dock in November 2007. Sentry is a robot built […]

A top-down view through the massive, lead-filled core head—which can weigh as much as 25,000 pounds—offers an unusual view of the driving force behind WHOI’s new long-core system. The […]