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MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jessie Pearl led a team into the Acushnet Cedar Swamp State Reservation in New Bedford, Mass., recently in search of white cedar trees from which…

Ocean plankton ranges in size from tiny plant-like cells to gelatinous animals that can be almost as long as a bus but with soft, jelly-like bodies. This comb jelly, Ocyropsis…

It was -22°F in March 2014 when WHOI engineers Kris Newhall (left) and John Kemp landed in a Twin Otter aircraft on an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea. They were…

Porpita porpita, also called the blue button jelly, floats at or near the surface of the water and drifts with the wind. This flower-like floater, related to jellyfish, is actually…

The original personnel sphere of the human-occupied vehicle Alvin was shaped from a steel plate in 1964 at Lukens Steel Co. in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. That sphere was used until 1973, when engineers…

A bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd stands on the deck of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic headquarters before the flags of the original Antarctic Treaty nations: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France,…

A marine science technician aboard the U.S.Coast Guard Healy pushes a conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) rosette during a spring 2009 research cruise to study the Bering Sea ecosystem. A CTD is made up of…

In this 1960 photo, Mary Sears is surrounded by papers and biological samples in her Bigelow Laboratory office. Sears was the first recipient of the original Woman Pioneer in Oceanography…

Raul Martinez and Allison Heater (both standing) finish preparing Alvin for a dive during the sub’s Science Verification Cruise in March 2014. Martinez and Heater are crewmembers of R/V Atlantis and are also trained to…

Falmouth High School art teacher Jane Baker and WHOI biologist Becky Gast took 52 art and English students to Provincetown this fall to do what generations of artists and writers…

Alvinella pompejana is named after the submersible Alvin and the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a volcano. Also known as the Pompeii worm, it can withstand the hottest temperatures of any…

On a calm, cold afternoon in January, a team from the Oceanographic Systems Lab at WHOI took a REMUS 6000 autonomous underwater vehicle for a test run in Woods Hole…

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 earthquakes…

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 platform…