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Sheldon Holzer, a volunteer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution exhibit center, tells a student about torpedo-shaped robots known as Remote Environmental Monitoring Units, or REMUS vehicles. Each summer, volunteers dedicate many hours to […]

Working on the deck of the R/V Atlantis, pilots and technicians from the Alvin Group scrubbed the submersible on the East Pacific Rise in December 2006. Dried on salt, grime, and […]

Researchers and crew aboard the R/V Laurence M. Gould recover a new Large Area Plankton Imaging System (LAPIS) after a test in Antarctic waters in March 2006. Designed by […]

Geology and Geophysics research specialist John Collins and Department Chair Susan Humphris discuss the Broadband Ocean Bottom Seismograph, or BBOBS. Associate Scientist Jeff McGuire and Collins were the recipients […]

Biologist Tim Shank (in baseball cap) has had memorable conversations while diving in the submersible Alvin, but his chat with an astronaut hovering 250 miles above Earth’s surface was a […]

On a gray day in August 2006, WHOI research associate Phil Alatalo (right) and Captain Bill Kopplin motored out to the R/V Annika Marie at Barrow, Alaska. Alatalo participated […]

Associate Scientist Jeff Seewald and his vent-sampling team (Joint Program student Eoghan Reeves, kneeling in front, and behind from left are Peter Saccocia, associate professor of Earth Sciences […]

Aboard the Bulgarian R/V Akademik, research specialist Alan Gagnon (in the hat) and Bulgarian scientists inspect Niskin bottles during a Black Sea cruise with Assistant Scientist Marco Coolen. The […]

Ship’s boatswain Pete Liarikos (left) and mooring specialist John Kemp huddle beneath the CLIMODE surface buoy as colleagues hold the lines. Liarikos and Kemp were working to secure […]

In July 2007, a group of workers from the WHOI Facilities Department moved the display skeleton of a pilot whale a longtime fixture of the lobby of the Redfield Laboratory […]

Massive ice blocks crowd the sides of the icebreaker Oden during a research expedition to the Arctic Ocean in July 2007. The ship plowed through the ice cap […]

Dave Morton of Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems, Inc., throws a sonobuoy hydrophone receiver over the side of the research vessel Endeavor during the Autonomous Wide Aperture for Cluster […]

WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jessica Millar (left) and Skylar Bayer (right) work to disassemble a gravity corer after its recovery, while retired WHOI researcher and instructor Bruce Tripp […]

MIT graduate student Shichun Huang (sitting) joins MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Jessica Warren, Matthew Jackson, and Clare Williams on a tongue of pahoehoe (smooth) lava surrounded by aa (angular) […]

Over the years, the Narwhal Hotel in Resolute Bay, Canada, has hosted adventurers, tourists, science teams, pilots, and oil, gas, and mineral prospectors from all over the world, a fact […]