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Buck Ketchum prepared to deploy a water-sampling bottle in 1970. Ketchum was a leader in the development of biological oceanography—his research provided the basis for understanding productivity in the ocean, […]

WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (right) with summer student Yen Joe Tan observe waves created during a tsunami experiment at Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass. Lin and colleagues have studied […]

WHOI physical oceanographer Alan Faller (right) and a visiting colleague conducted a circulation experiment in 1957. Building on early studies of the Gulf Stream, Faller’s lab did illustrative experiments on […]

Common marine algae naturally produce chemicals that might be of use to humans. In 2002, Greg O’Neil (right) worked as a summer research student with WHOI chemist Chris Reddy (left) […]

Jim Broda (left) stands on the fantail of the research vessel Knorr just prior to the ship’s last science cruise as research assistant Al Gagnon tests the “manbasket” work […]

WHOI electronics technician Casey Agee helped load a set of isobaric gas-tight samplers (IGTs) onto a platform in the front of the remotely operated vehicle Jason during a 2014 expedition to the East […]

WHOI scientist Yogesh Girdhar is working to endow underwater robots with an ability that is particularly human: curiosity. Specifically, he is writing algorithms that will allow robots to distinguish […]

William Stelling Von Arx (1916-1999), shown here working with a wide-angle cloud camera and lens, first came to WHOI in 1945. He is known for his work in physical oceanography […]

In 2013, WHOI chemist Ken Buesseler went to Japan, where he collected samples of groundwater and beach sands as part of his and chemist Matt Charette’s work […]

WHOI engineer Loral O’Hara installs a new shroud over one of the maneuvering thrusters on the Nereid Under Ice (NUI) remotely operated vehicle. NUI is connected to pilots aboard […]

WHOI researchers Fritz Fuglister, left, and Dana Densmore inspect a bathythermograph, or BT, prior to a research cruise in 1957. BTs measure temperature and depth while being dropped from or […]

In the depths of winter, it’s nice to remember when undergraduates from around the world come to Woods Hole for a summer of science by the sea. Students learn […]

Until the early 1980s, the 105-foot catamaran Lulu served as the support vessel for the deep submergence vehicle Alvin. Here, engineers use a pedestal crane on the WHOI pier to conduct […]

Work went on round-the-clock in the winter of 2011 during a 43-day cruise to the Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas. Bad weather, frigid temperatures, and nearly perpetual darkness can make […]

WHOI engineer Brian Guest took this photo of icebergs at at Rothera Station, Antarctica in the summer of 2014. Guest was part of a team of scientists and technicians on […]

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin served as WHOI’s second director from 1940 to 1950 and following founding director Henry Bigelow. Iselin was Bigelow’s student at Harvard and originally came to WHOI […]