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 Dye Sheds Light on Jet-Propelled Salps
A graduate student reveals locomotion in the ocean
Salps are transparent, gelatinous marine animals that move by sucking water in their front ends and shooting it out their back ends. MIT/WHOI graduate student Kelly Rakow Sutherland used nighttime dives, an underwater video camera, and a fluorescent dye to capture their movements.Read more » |
Turning Carbon Dioxide Gas into Rock
Audio Slideshow: An MIT/WHOI student examines a fascinating natural process in Oman Oct. 22, 2009
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Hurricane Hunter
Graduate student uncovers long-buried record of past storms Feb. 13, 2009
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What Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
A graduate student explores the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Dec. 23, 2008
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The Turtle and the Robot
An old sea turtle teaches a young engineer about swimming Dec. 19, 2008
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Tracking Nitrogen's Elusive Trail in the Ocean
The 'isotope effect' offers a new way to follow where nitrogen goes Dec. 12, 2008
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Another Greenhouse Gas to Watch: Nitrous Oxide
Where are steadily rising levels of the gas coming from? Dec. 12, 2008
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A Tale of Two Oceans, and the Monsoons
Tiny seafloor shells could reveal big clues to the forces that generate monsoons Dec. 5, 2008
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A Most Ingenious Paradoxical Plankton
How do similar organisms co-exist in the same ecological niche? Nov. 25, 2008
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