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The skeletal hind flipper of a harbor seal includes finger-like bones, as shown in this articulated display specimen plucked from a Woods Hole warehouse. WHOI biologists work with marine […]

The crew of the research vessel Knorr uses some port time to work on the A-frame on the stern, which is used for balancing lines and supporting weight as […]

Boatswain Jim McGill (left) of the WHOI-operated research vessel Oceanus assists scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and Penn State University as they deploy a towed, mid-range sound […]

WHOI research specialist Rick Krishfield (left, with clipboard) and ship’s boatswain Bob Taylor (foreground) observe as WHOI engineering assistants John Kemp and Kris Newhall assemble a mooring […]

June 22 was departure day for new MIT/WHOI Joint Program students making their welcome cruise—which is actually a crash course in oceanographic sampling 101 and seamanship.  All incoming students […]

The new Puma autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) uses sonar, lasers, and chemical sensors to search wide areas of the ocean floor to detect the telltale signals from hydrothermal vent plumes. […]

Physical Oceanographer Bob Weller weaves his way through a set of buoys on the ship’s fantail after they were retrieved from the waters around Martha’s Vineyard. The buoys were […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Annette Hynes displays test tubes filled with phycobiliproteins (soluble pigments) extracted from different cultured strains of Trichodesmium, a nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria. The different colors […]

Ship crew members (in blue and yellow) from the Swedish icebreaker Oden and scientists from the Arctic Gakkel Vent Expedition (in orange and blue) take a break for ice […]

WHOI oceanographer Bob Weller assists in the recovery of the STRATUS mooring off the coast of Chile in 2006. Weller and WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord (hands […]

This aggregate of salps (Pegea confoederata) and a small fish were collected in the warm waters near the Liquid Jungle Laboratory in Panama. WHOI graduate student Kelly […]

The Camera Sampler, or “CAMPER,” towed vehicle is lowered over the stern of the icebreaker Oden during engineering tests in June 2007 in the Arctic Ocean. CAMPER was designed […]

The Swedish icebreaking ship Oden steams across a break in the Arctic ice during an engineering test cruise in June 2007, while WHOI engineer Hanumant Singh and colleagues flew […]

Three titanium ingots two are 17,000 pounds apiece, the third is 7,000— arrive at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio for testing after being fabricated at Titanium Metals Mill in […]

On May 6, 2007, WHOI researchers and technicians deployed the Real Time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) off the coast of Grenada. RTOSS is part of a project to develop […]

Engineering assistant Kris Newhall (left) and senior engineering assistant John Kemp examine and repair floats inside a workshop on the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent during the summer […]

The Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) used sonar signals to compile this bathymetric map (the underwater equivalent of topography) of the Susu Knolls area off the coast of Papua New […]