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As principal instructors for the Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program in 1968 the topic was “general circulation of the ocean” physical oceanographers Henry Stommel (left) and Lou Howard hopped…

WHOI senior engineering assistant Jeff Lord keeps an eye on the gear while guiding winch operators as they recover the STRATUS VI moored buoy in October 2006 off of the…

Anemones cover a rock roughly 80 meters (250 feet) beneath the water line on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. The photo was taken by…

In a WHOI biology lab, graduate student Diane Poehls Adams is breeding blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, from larvae to mature adults. These mussels experience different genetic selection pressures—leading them to express different genes…

Salpa aspera, a jelly-like species of animal found in the Atlantic Ocean, can link into chains several meters long and comprised of as many as 80 individuals. These “salps” form…

WHOI researcher Fritz Hess transfers by highline from the USS Hazelwood to Atlantis II during the search for the lost nuclear submarine Thresher in 1963. Making just its second voyage…

WHOI Associate Scientist Matt Charette (left) and Research Assistant Matt Allen use pumps and instruments deployed on a canoe to collect water samples from Pamet Harbor in Truro, Mass. By…

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) breached while WHOI researchers were working to tag whales near Stellwagen Bank. No one knows for sure why whales breach the water surface; some researchers…

Members of the lively Woods Hole folk dancing community turned out in October 1977 to help celebrate the return of the research vessel Atlantis II from the longest WHOI cruise up…

WHOI Research Associate Mary Carman scans the tidepools near Sandwich Town Beach on Cape Cod to find sea squirts, an invasive, filter-feeding species (genus Didemnum) that has been crowding out…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Mike Krawczynski is dwarfed by exposed columns of basalt in Skaftafell National Park of Iceland. Krawczynski and two dozen colleagues visited the North Atlantic island…

The WHOI-operated research vessel Oceanus rolls with the seas as the ship steams toward the Gulf Stream in November 2005. The decks were fully loaded with gear for the CLIvar…

WHOI guest student Don Pfitsch (left), MIT/WHOI graduate student Chris Roman (middle, now an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island), and summer student fellow Patrick Serfass (in the…

A core pulled from the top few feet of the floor of the Makassar Strait (near Indonesia) shows the most recently deposited marine sediments. Sediments can be used which enable…

MIT/WHOI graduate student Christian Miller takes a water sample just downstream from Svartifoss (Black Falls) in Skaftafell National Park, Iceland. Miller and two dozen students and scientists backpacked their way…

A moored profiler is lowered into the storage hold of the Canadian icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in preparation for the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project in August 2005. Moored profilers climb…