Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Vote for the Winner in WHOI's Instagram Contest!

Choose from six finalists in the Institution's first-ever Instagram contest #OceanInMyLife. Voting closes at midnight on Saturday, September 5. LEARN MORE

Ultrasounds for Coral Reefs?

Scientists have found a new way to assess the health of coral reefs and monitor threats on atolls.

River Buries Permafrost
Carbon at Sea

Millions of metric tons of carbon
dioxide are swept into Arctic ocean sediment each year.

Changing Conditions Double Endangered Penguin Population

Shifting winds and ocean currents
power a resurgence of endangered Galapagos Penguins.

Short-circuiting the
Biological Pump

Tiny chemical compounds help choreograph a planet-size dance.

TurtleCam a Test of
WHOI Crowdfunding

Cape Cod Times

Glaciers Seed Ocean with Silicon--and Fuel Plankton Growth
New Scientist

A Climate Plan, and a Survey of the Changing Arctic
Science Friday

Meet the Robots Crawling Along the Ocean Floor
Motherboard

Guess Your Age?

Brett Longworth, of the Geology & Geophysics Department, loads a samples into the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility.The facility can measure age using carbon isotopes present in the samples. READ MORE