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Sulphur coated the frame on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason during a recent cruise to the western Pacific.  Jason captured close-up images of volcanic eruptions and was bathed in…

Ian Hanley prepares the 60-foot R/V Tioga for arrival during a break in mooring recovery operations on the Merrimack River. (Photo by James Kent, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Crabs cover the sample basket on the front of DSV Alvin during 2002 dives near Patton Seamount in the Gulf of Alaska. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Dennis McGillicuddy (left) and Cabell Davis with a video plankton recorder (VPR) designed to work on the autonomous underwater vehicle REMUS. The VPR is an underwater video microscope system that…

The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Searover is deployed off the starboard side of the polar research vessel Nathaniel Palmer near Alexander Island, Antarctica. Searover captured video imagery underneath the ice…

Deployment of an underwater camera off R/V Atlantis(circa 1948). Maurice Ewing and his  student Allyn Vine produced the first photographs of the deep seafloor in 1940 during seismic experiments aboard Atlantis,…

Ken Rand and Diego Mello (foreground) work on the deck of R/V Oceanus during an April 2006 cruise in the Northwest Atlantic. The pair helped recover moorings as part of operations…

Panorama of the sample preparation lab for radiocarbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility (NOSAMS) at WHOI. An addition completed in 2004  houses a newly designed…

A CTD (bottom) with rosette for conductivity/temperature/depth measurements is readied for deployment from R/V Oceanus during a winter 2005 cruise to study circulation in continental shelf and slope waters north…

A polar signpost on the Western Antarctic Peninsula provides an unusual reference point for scientists working in and around the continent in February and March 2003. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Amidst various models of the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE), engineer Al Bradley has designed numerous instruments and vehicles. The autonomous underwater vehicle ABE and its successor Sentry are two of…

Will Burt launches an XCTD (Expendable CTD), used to measure conductivity, temperature and density, during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment in the Arctic Ocean in 2005. (Photo by Christopher Linder,…

Postdoc Dave Ralston and Jay Sisson aboard coastal vessel Tioga recover a surface buoy from the Merrimack River. The round object at the top of the buoy is a radar reflector. (Photo by James…

Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink used a saw to collect samples of 635-million-year-old rocks from the iridium boundary in a cliff in the Hoanib Valley in Namibia.  He is using geochemical tracers to detect the…

Jeremy Winn (University of Maine) harnesses a fiberglass replica of a right whale’s tail during tests with WHOI scientists in Marion Harbor, Mass. Scientists are trying to find ways to…

R/V Atlantis departs on another voyage from the Woods Hole dock in April 2006. The vessel is often at sea away from home port for several years, with each leg…

Sybil Campbell worked at WHOI from 1954 to 1960 as a research assistant with geochemist Vaughan Bowen. Bowen brought nuclear studies to WHOI, with research projects to detect the presence…

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Jon Woodruff (left) and Senior Scientist Don Anderson examine a sediment core sample from the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts for a study using coastal flood deposits…