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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 […]

Alexis Jackson (in blue) and Carly Strasser, WHOI Summer Student Fellows, sieve mud in Barnstable Harbor (MA) to collect juvenile softshell clams (Mya arenaria) for population studies.(Photo by Tom […]

Ship strikes threaten the survival of the endangered North Atlantic right whale. About 300 to 350 animals remain. This photo was taken in 2004 during fieldwork in the Bay […]

Rising 4,360 meters (14,300 feet) from the seafloor off Samoa, Vailulu’u looks like an underwater version of Mount Fuji. (Courtesy Stan Hart, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

In a painting of a hydrothermal chimney named Hulk on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a camera mounted on the remotely operated vehicle Jason II captures high-resolution images using light […]

A juvenile copepod, Calanus glacialis, collected on a recent Arctic cruise, is about the size of the tip of a pencil. The shrimp-like animals are an important part of the […]

The Autonomous Benthic Explorer was the first deep AUV developed by WHOI engineers. With its ability to maintain a stable and constant altitude over changing seafloor topography, ABE can […]

Scientists and engineers check out the model of the personnel sphere for the Alvin replacement, expected in 2009. The mock-up enables users as well as engineers to visualize changes […]