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Mock up of the 42-foot sub Aluminaut,owned by Reynolds Aluminum and operated briefly by WHOI in the early 1960s. The sub, shown here at WHOI in 1961, helped retrieve […]

The submersible Alvin‘s manipulator reaches toward a black smoker chimney at 17°S on the East Pacific Rise. The “black smoke” consists of an abundance of dark, fine-grained, suspended […]

In 1998, the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason installed the Hawaii-2 Observatory, or H2O, in 5,000 meters (about 16,400 feet) of water using an abandoned submarine telephone cable. […]

A view of Pangong Lake in the Ladakh region of northern India, taken at an altitude of 18,000 feet, shows the great expanse of the Tibetan Plateau as far […]

Participating in the summer WHOI softball league, Rob Reves-Sohn prepares to swing the bat for the Geology and Geophysics Department team. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

New WHOI “D2” ocean-bottom seismometers are readied for field testing. Small and light for easy deployment and recovery, the D2 has a six-month battery capacity. The devices are […]

Waves, currents, sand grain sizes, sandbar configurations, water tablelevels beneath the beach, and other phenomena combine in complex ways to cause very different patterns along the same beach. (Photo […]

Puma and Jaguar are autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to overcome the technical challenges that preclude under-ice operations in the Arctic Ocean. Puma will detect and […]

A North Atlantic right whale dives in search of food near Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, Canada.(Photo by Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

The foredeck of the Canadian icebreaker Louis St. Laurent during a mooring deployment in the Arctic Ocean during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment. (Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods […]

Adult barnacles, about one year old, form plates to hold their body together and for protection.
(Photo by Vicke Starczak, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Greg Packard (right) puts a REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle through pre-launch checks before testing near Woods Hole. The vehicle, capable of diving to 600 meters, carries sensors […]

MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sheri Simmons collects samples in Salt Pond in Falmouth, Mass., for studies of a previously unknown bacterium that incorporates magnetic minerals to make […]

Using optical and electron microscopes, scientists can detect how crystals within rocks change their sizes, shapes, and orientations when the rocks are subjected to heat and stress. These atomic-scale […]

The 35,570-square-foot biogeochemistry building, now called the Stanley W. Watson Laboratory, under construction in 2005. The Watson Lab is one of two new laboratories on the Institution’s Quissett Campus, […]

Crabs thrive in a new vent site on the Galapagos Rift found in 2005. Its concave shape and lineage to previously found sites called Rose Garden and Rosebud–suggested the name […]

At the experiment site at the Tica Vent on the East Pacific Rise, basalt panels were placed in the center of a tubeworm colony to see if larvae would […]