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Alvin pilots take a photo break during the sub’s recent overhaul in Woods Hole, which happens once every three years. Front: Pat Hickey and Anton Zafereo, Middle: Anthony […]

Scientists from around the world gather each summer at WHOI’s Walsh Cottage in Woods Hole to participate in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program, a more than 50-year summer […]

Like a field of water lilies, small pieces of ice cover the surface of the Antarctic Ocean. (Photo by Peter Wiebe, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

Drill bits make an interesting pattern on the deck during the Beaufort Gyre Freshwater Experiment in 2005.
(Photo by Christopher Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Engineer Andy Bowen (in green) and Chris German, chief scientist for deep submergence, with ROV Jason during a maintenance period in Woods Hole. Jason is now at sea in […]

The Anything But a Boat Regatta, held at Great Harbor in Woods Hole, was among the Institution’s 75th anniversary activities in 2005. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole […]

The Tunnel Inspection Vehicle, photographed during a test in a Falmouthfacility, is a specialized REMUS built for the New York City Departmentof Environmental Protection to inspect the Delaware […]

Associate Scientist Hanumant Singh (left) and student Zachary Berkowitzprepare the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) SeaBED for testing from the stern of  R/V Tioga in Woods Hole. (Photo […]

The research vessel Knorr was launched on August 21, 1968, in Bay City, Michigan. The ship was delivered to WHOI in 1970 and was completely overhauled and lengthened […]

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)