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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 for exploring the…

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 center…

WHOI technician Devin Ruddick and geophysicist Rob Reves-Sohn use a Swedish flag to cover the freshly painted Puma and Jaguar AUVs before their unveiling later that night to crew members…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jonathan Woodruff works to extract a sediment core from Sippewissett Marsh in Massachusetts. Along with advisor Jeff Donnelly, Woodruff is trying to piece together the…

Sunrise illuminates the bottom of the corehead of WHOI’s new long coring system on the research vessel Knorr. The head is held fast (in its stowed position) by the jaws…

The new hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus is lowered toward Atlantic waters for one of its many engineering tests in 2007. In November, the one-of-a-kind vehicle made its first…

Scientific and ship crew members on the research vessel Oceanus work to deploy a sediment trap off the New England coast. Marine chemist Tim Eglinton and colleagues are investigating how…

Michael McCarthy (black shirt) of WHOI Operational Scientific Services and Neil McPhee (red shirt) of the Instrument Systems Development Lab stand atop a new tsunami and earthquake monitoring buoy being…

WHOI animation specialist Jack Cook (center) works with senior research specialist Jim Broda (right) on an animation of the new WHOI long-coring system for the research vessel Knorr. WHOI Graphic…

In 41 years of operation, the submersible Alvin has logged more than 4,300 dives and 30,000 hours exploring the deep ocean, diving a combined total of more than 9 million…

Captain Kent Sheasley (center, background) directs the crane and chief engineer Pat Mone tends the line (foreground) as a propulsion motor is removed from the research vessel Knorr for maintenance.…

Ocean-going research doesn’t wait for holidays, so the science and ship crews take the holidays with them. On Christmas morning 2006, during an expedition to the East Pacific Rise, the…

An Adélie penguin hunches down over its nest as icy winds whip across Cape Royds. Nearly 80 percent of Adélie chicks do not survive their first year, according to researcher…

It’s Solstice day, but what that means depends on which end of the earth you live on. In the northern hemisphere, mid-winter’s day is the shortest (and the night is…

WHOI senior engineering assistant Brian Guest and engineer Jeff Sherman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography work with a Spray glider in a Quissett Campus lab in April 2004. Guest…

While working in Antarctica, some research groups travel with a complete portable shelter called a “tomato.”  The fiberglass-walled unit keeps people out of the elements and provides a place to…

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (in blue shirt) and colleagues examine geological evidence of past earthquakes near the Mediterranean coast of Algeria. Lin’s work in that nation has been funded by…

The hybrid remotely operated vehicle (HROV) Nereus was tested several times from the Woods Hole dock in 2007, and recently underwent open-water trials off Hawaii in November. Now in the…

Muddy sediment from beneath the seafloor pokes out of one of the first long cores collected by the new sampling system on the research vessel Knorr. Scientists use sediment cores…