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On a rare sunny day in the Arctic, optical instruments are deployed off of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) vessel Oscar Dyson in the Chukchi Sea. WHOI postdoctoral…

Mike Jakuba, a graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, guided the robotic underwater vehicle Jaguar back on board the icebreaker Oden during a summer expedition to the Arctic. Jakuba, now with Johns Hopkins University, collected…

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 staff the…

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 the…

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 biologist…

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 of a major…

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 first.…

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 in…

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 at Bridgewater…

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 researchers…

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 the buoy…

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 to makes…

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 looks on…