Coral

Corals help measure hidden flow

WHOI scientists visit Gulf of Mexico and Arctic Ocean

Change in equatorial current may slow warming near small islands

Does the Gulf oil spill threaten vital seafloor communities?

An audio slideshow: Research on the reefs

Eight atolls in the Pacific represent the world's largest marine protected area

Expedition to the Tasman Fracture finds unknown species

In a co-evolutionary struggle, invertebrate adversaries develop weapon and counter-weapon

Coral cores offer an unprecedented record of the rise and fall of Earth's sea level

Fishing trawlers likely caused extensive damage to deep-sea coral communities

Growing a little each day, coral skeletons keep a daily archive of past ocean temperatures

Scientists strive to get into the genes of fossil corals to extract their evolutionary history

The skeletons of corals on the seafloor preserve records of how ocean circulation has changed

A WHOI biologist becomes a midwife for Antarctic deep-sea corals

Scientists seek to learn more about these abundant, fragile, and now-threatened communities