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Research vessel Atlantis Bosun Wayne Bailey signals to a crew member during ship operations for the Galápagos Rift Expedition in May and June 2005. Crew members work […]
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All in a Day’s Work
The submersible Alvin surfaces after a dive as support vessel Atlantis moves into position for recovery. A typical dive is 8-10 hours. Alvin has made more than 5,000 dives […]
Read MoreFollow That Fin
WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner enters data from a variety of ocean instruments and tools into his laptop during a 2005 cruise off Cape Cod to investigate where and Read More
Beautiful but Dangerous
Physalia physalis, commonly known as the Portuguese man-of-war or bluebottle, lives in warm waters worldwide and is famous for its painful stinging tentacles up to 50 meters (165 […]
Read MoreOver and Under
Research Vessel Chain
R/V Chain sailed in the WHOI fleet from 1958 to 1975, when it was retired. Formerly a Navy salvage ship during World War II, Chain was converted in 1958 for Read More
Sign Here, Please
A steel worker signs a ceremonial construction beam for one of the new laboratories on WHOI’s Quissett Campus. State-of-the-art laboratory facilities formarine research and biogeochemistry were completed in late […]
Read MoreTaking A Closer Look
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Mea Cook images a sediment core with an X-ray. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreWhat’s in a Shell?
A thin section of a quahog shell reveals annual growth bands, like tree rings, which are valuable for climate change studies. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MorePoolside Science
2005 Summer Student Fellow Derek Cavatorta works on a laptop in front of a test tank, where different types of rope are being tested to help disentangle right whales from fishing […]
Read MoreAwash
Al Plueddemann and Glen Gawarkiewicz prepare to launch REMUS, an autonomous underwater vehicle, from R/V Tioga during a survey in shallow water off Chatham, Mass., in early […]
Read MoreHow Does an Observatory Work?
When magma rises through Earth’s crust to a mid-ocean ridge, ocean observatory sensors detect the ground motion, the spilling lava, and the chemicals spewing from hydrothermal vents. Observations are relayed […]
Read MoreOne in a Million
This specimen of Athorybia, a siphonophore or colonial jellyfish, was collected recently from a Census of Marine Zooplankton cruise off the U.S. East Coast. Researchers found many new species […]
Read MoreSampling at Sea, 1961
WHOI Microbiologist Stanley W. Watson monitors the oxygen uptake of microbes in a seawater sample during an R/V Chain cruise in 1961. (Photo courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
Read MoreAll Aboard!
Physical oceanographer Ken Brink demonstrated his model trains as part of the employee arts and crafts exhibit at the Institution’s 75th anniversary celebration on October 1, 2005. Events […]
Read MoreA Busy Day in Port
Mighty Microorganism
Tiny species like this Euphausid photographed in a drop of water are prey to larger organisms in the oceanic food chain. About the size of a fingernail, the shrimp-like creature […]
Read MorePieces of a Pirate Ship
Mary Lardie prepares samples from the 18th century pirate ship Queen Anne’s Revenge for carbon dating at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry facility. Remains of Blackbeard’s […]
Read MoreZooplankton
A Big Buoy
Man with a Mission
Thumbs Down
Leonidas Byckjovas directs the unloading of a CTD (conductivity/temperature/depth) rosette from the deck of R/V Oceanus at the WHOI dock. The instrument collects water samples at various depths […]
Read MoreFrozen Peaks
The Antarctic landscape was captured in many photographs during Dive and Discover Expedition 10 in February and March 2006. (Photo by Katherine Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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