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On September 14, 1944, WHOI’s original  research vessel Atlantis was moved to the dock of the National Marine Fisheries Service because of an impending hurricane; Captain Lambert Knight and […]

The deep submergence vehicle Alvin slowly moves back into its hangar under the watchful eye of Expedition Leader and Alvin pilot Patrick Hickey. When not being raised or lowered […]

Bigelow Laboratory stands as sentry over the WHOI dock as evening settles in. The building is named for oceanographer Henry Bryant Bigelow, first director of WHOI. It was the […]

On this day in 1909, explorers Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and their Inuit guides Ootah, Egigingwah, Seegloo and Ooqueah claimed to be the first humans to reach the North […]

Research Associate John Lund of the WHOI Autonomous Systems Lab lowers a glider into a test tank to weigh it in water, part of the process of adjusting […]

WHOI Research Associate Bruce Keafer digs into a pile of muddy sediment from the bottom of the Gulf of Maine. Keafer and colleagues worked in that North Atlantic basin in […]

WHOI researchers and graduate students were greeted by hundreds of horses, wild and domestic, while trekking through the west coast of Iceland. The WHOI group made the field trip […]

The Sun sets over the North Atlantic, as viewed through the hatch of the wet lab on the research vessel Oceanus in November 2006. (Photo by Frederick Woodruff, […]

Jeremy Kaspar, a graduate student from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, keeps a watchful eye on the sea ice crowding the Chukchi Sea in September 2003. Working aboard […]

Engineers Hugh Popenoe, Norm Farr, and Terry Hammar test a new optical modem system for the first time in the fall of 2006 on the dock in Woods […]

New graduate students from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography gather on the rear deck of the Corwith Cramer, an educational sailing ship operated by the Sea Education […]

The crescent Moon watches over the painted sky of sunset in December 2006 in the equatorial Pacific Ocean off of Mexico. The A-frame of the research vessel Atlantis and […]

Elephant Island and its glacier greeted the scientists and crew of the research vessel Laurence M. Gould on December 1, 2004, as they cruised toward Antarctica’s Palmer Station. “It […]

At Puget Sound Ropes in Anacortes, Washington, the first few meters of a new synthetic rope are flaked into a shipping container (left). The rope, blended from two ultra-high strength […]

Geoff Ekblaw works from engineering drawings (foreground) while welding the foundation mounts for solar panels that will sit atop a moored buoy. A senior fabricator and welder, Ekblaw has […]