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[From left] Biologists Don Anderson (WHOI), Deana Erdner (University of Texas and former member of Anderson’s lab) and Robert Dickey (U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory) traveled…

While the icebreaker Oden was smashing ice and trying to push it away from the bow, the ship’s officers also kept an eye on Oden’s aft, 107.7 meters (353 feet)…

A crew member on the research vessel Kilo Moana assists in the deployment of a “clap-trap” mooring during the summer 2004 Vertical Transport In the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) project off…

Working at the WHOI dock, summer student fellow Tess Brandon (Cornell University) and WHOI engineering assistant Amy Kukulya prepare a REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle for a research trip out to…

Summer Student Fellow Skylar Bayer (Brown University) holds a jar of juvenile crabs collected from the deep ocean floor along the East Pacific Rise. Working in the laboratory of WHOI…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Christie Wood (foreground) and postdoctoral investigator Alfredo Aretxabaleta prepare to recover the conductivity-temperature-depth rosette during the NOAA Rapid Response cruise to study red tide in…

Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) populations have been severely depleted by humans throughout most of their range. Several large spawning aggregations still exist in the western part of its range near…

Chief Scientist John Goff (center, in blue T-shirt and jeans) and other scientific staff deploy a Vibracorer off the research vessel Knorr in August 2007. Goff, a senior research scientist…

During oceanographic research cruises, it is customary for scientists to cook for the crew. Midway through this summer’s expedition to the Gakkel Ridge, chief scientist Rob Reves-Sohn found himself in…

WHOI senior engineer Jim Valdes and physical oceanographer Amy Bower inspect an innovative new carousel device designed to automatically release a yellow float when warm water eddies pass. The carousel…

The REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle works just below the surface in Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve off Belize, while the crew (Faegon Villanueva and Tyrone Lambert, from Belize; and Glen…

As the research vessel Knorr cruised from Woods Hole toward the continental shelf off New Jersey, the science crew admired the sunset and the end of the first day. From…

The automonous underwater vehicle Puma waits for pickup on the surface of the Arctic Ocean, nestled in a slushy patch of ice in July 2007. The AUV, along with special…

A baby reef squid found its way into the nets of WHOI researchers as they worked in the waters around Belize to study the connectivity of reef ecosystems. Biologists and…

Summer Student Fellow Amy Koid and CICOR Postdoctoral Scholar Jeremiah Hackett examine a test tube containing genetic material for studies of toxic algae during the summer of 2006. Researchers at…

After several days enveloped in 24-hour fog and gray skies in July 2007, all of a sudden, things changed for the research team on the WHOI-led expedition to the Arctic…

On a July afternoon in 2006, summer student fellows Sophie Clayton (white shirt) and Juliana Gay (red shirt) launch a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) instrument off the fantail of the research vessel…

Before computers and global positioning systems, mariners set their course with a sextant, a rotating instruments that use the sun and stars for celestial navigation. Many sailors still keep sextants on…