Students Profiles & Interviews
February 1, 2013
Bacteria Hitchhike on Tiny Marine Life
Why do pathogens settle on animals called copepods?Source: Oceanus Magazine
January 16, 2013
Groundwater: The River No One Sees
Corals help measure hidden flowSource: Oceanus Magazine
June 25, 2012
Brown Tides and Redfielders
Scientists probe the inner workings of harmful algaeSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 14, 2012
The Great South Channel
Where marine life meets to feast every springSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 6, 2012
Tracking Toxic Chemicals in Oil Spills
Does out of sight mean into the air or into fish?Source: Oceanus Magazine
February 1, 2012
On the Trail of Mercury in the Ocean
Between smokestack and fish, mercury becomes more toxicSource: Oceanus Magazine
January 25, 2012
Powerful Currents in Deep-Sea Gorges
What energy drives these currents in hundreds of seafloor Grand Canyons?Source: Oceanus Magazine
January 12, 2012
Clues in Shark Vertebrae Reveal Where They've Been
Scientists take advantage of a silver lining in mushroom cloudsSource: Oceanus Magazine
January 5, 2012
Whale Heads and Tales
A student probes the mysteries of whales' hearingSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 28, 2011
Searching for Life on the Seafloor
Mid-Cayman Spreading Center could harbor unknown organismsSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 19, 2011
The Scientist Who Stays Out in the Cold
MIT/WHOI graduate student studies ice in a warming worldSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 14, 2011
The Latest Fashion in Bowhead Whale Songs
Why do cetacean crooners change their tunes?Source: Oceanus Magazine
December 2, 2011
Tracking an Elusive Chemical: Estrogens
What impacts might these hormones have in the coastal ocean?Source: Oceanus Magazine
November 23, 2011
The Ocean's Tiny Chemists
A new tool helps sort out a hubbub of microbial activity in the seaSource: Oceanus Magazine
November 10, 2011
Between the Beach and the Deep Blue Sea
Student explores the dynamic gateway of the shallow inner shelfSource: Oceanus Magazine
October 20, 2011
A Drop in the Ocean is Teeming with Life
Scientists reveal hidden relationships among marine microbesSource: Oceanus Magazine
September 9, 2011
Psychotherapy for Plankton
Life can be stressful out there in the microscopic marine worldSource: Oceanus Magazine
June 24, 2011
From Pac-Man to the Seafloor
Graduate student seeks ways to build a better robotSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 1, 2011
Where the Food Is in the Sea, and Why
Student unravels the physics at the fertile continental shelf breakSource: Oceanus Magazine
July 16, 2010
A Torrent of Crabs Running to the Sea
A student uncovers the natural history of a little-known speciesSource: Oceanus Magazine
June 5, 2010
Holography and Oceanography
An audio slideshow on a new way to use lasers to reveal tiny sea lifeSource: Oceanus Magazine
March 25, 2010
Mysteries at High Latitudes
A WHOI graduate student explores tip jets and deep convectionSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 19, 2010
The Squid, the Whale, and the Grad Student
A young scientist deciphers meaning embedded in sonar signalsSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 11, 2009
Dye Sheds Light on Jet-Propelled Salps
A graduate student reveals locomotion in the oceanSource: Oceanus Magazine
October 22, 2009
Turning Carbon Dioxide Gas into Rock
Audio Slideshow: An MIT/WHOI student examines a fascinating natural process in OmanSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 13, 2009
Hurricane Hunter
Graduate student uncovers long-buried record of past stormsSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 23, 2008
What Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
Audio slideshow: A graduate student explores the Gulf Stream and the KuroshioSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 19, 2008
The Turtle and the Robot
An old sea turtle teaches a young engineer about swimmingSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 12, 2008
Tracking Nitrogen's Elusive Trail in the Ocean
The 'isotope effect' offers a new way to follow where nitrogen goesSource: Oceanus Magazine
December 12, 2008
Another Greenhouse Gas to Watch: Nitrous Oxide
Where are steadily rising levels of the gas coming from?Source: Oceanus Magazine
December 5, 2008
A Tale of Two Oceans, and the Monsoons
Tiny seafloor shells could reveal big clues to the forces that generate monsoonsSource: Oceanus Magazine
November 25, 2008
A Most Ingenious Paradoxical Plankton
How do similar organisms co-exist in the same ecological niche?Source: Oceanus Magazine
November 19, 2008
Shellfish's Mysterious Pathways to Adulthood
A grad student peers into the lives of larvae, before they grow up to be scallopsSource: Oceanus Magazine
November 13, 2008
A Tag Fit for a Porpoise
Grad students surmount big hurdles to build a device for a small marine mammalSource: Oceanus Magazine
November 3, 2008
Listening In As Bacteria 'Talk' to Each Other
A graduate student explores the microbial mysteries of quorum sensingSource: Oceanus Magazine
October 22, 2008
How Does Nature Deal with Persistent Pollutants?
Graduate student explores biomagnification of chemicals up the food chainSource: Oceanus Magazine
October 15, 2008
One Man's Swamp Is a Fish's Nursery
Grad student examines otoliths (fish ear bones) to protect critical areas for juvenile coral reef fishSource: Oceanus Magazine
August 26, 2008
Biochemical Warfare on the Reef
In a co-evolutionary struggle, invertebrate adversaries develop weapon and counter-weaponSource: Oceanus Magazine
September 3, 2008
Testing the Waters and Closing Beaches
Researchers seek faster, better ways to detect harmful bacteriaSource: Oceanus Magazine
July 24, 2008
For Graduate Student, Research Is a Gas
Well, two gases actually, and both have key impacts on climateSource: Oceanus Magazine
July 1, 2008
Antarctic Andrea
Opportunity knocks for a MIT/WHOI graduate student to join a polar expeditionSource: Oceanus Magazine
April 3, 2008
Protecting Public Health by Preventing Pollution
A graduate student seeks ways to curtail contaminants in the environmentSource: Oceanus Magazine
November 20, 2007
Plumbing the Plume That Created Samoa
A graduate student explores the magmatic origins of islandsSource: Oceanus Magazine
August 9, 2007
Eavesdropping on Whales' Mealtime Conversation
A graduate student journeys to Norway to investigate how orcas orchestrate their huntSource: Oceanus Magazine
June 20, 2007
What Does It Take To Break a Whale?
Stress tests on whale bones aim to help endangered speciesSource: Oceanus Magazine
March 15, 2007
Current Events off Antarctica
Graduate student helps discover a previously unknown ocean currentSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 21, 2007
Young Pup Teaches an Old Robot New Tricks
MIT/WHOI graduate student improves the Autonomous Benthic Explorer's ability to hunt for seafloor ventsSource: Oceanus Magazine
November 6, 2006
A Rare Glimpse Into the Ocean's Crust
Exploring rocks' magnetic signals, a WHOI graduate student reconstructs how the seafloor formsSource: Oceanus Magazine
June 19, 2006
A Laser Light in the Ocean Depths
Graduate student works to adapt laser technology to detect chemicals on the seafloorSource: Oceanus Magazine
February 10, 2006
Graduate Student Discovers an Unusual New Species
Unlike other magnetotactic bacteria, the "barbell" bacterium heads in its own directionSource: Oceanus Magazine
October 24, 2005
Scientific (and Surfing) Safari
On and off the job, a MIT/WHOI graduate student displays his passion for the oceanSource: Oceanus Magazine
August 26, 2005
Double Duty for Ensign/Student Allison Berg
First recipient of Pittenger Fellowship pursues a degree in oceanography while serving her countrySource: Oceanus Magazine
August 26, 2005
Meet the Class of 2005-2007
Who are the Navy officers who study at MIT/WHOI?Source: Oceanus Magazine
April 1, 2003
Erik Anderson
A dolphin should not be able to swim. So said Cambridge University zoologist James Gray in the 1930s. The friction caused by water moving over a dolphin's skin, he said, should be like swimming in cold molasses. But dolphins obviously can swim, and Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering student Erik Anderson wants to find out why.
August 1, 2003
Emily Van Ark
Peering into the hot, dense bowels of the Earth, Geology and Geophysics student Emily Van Ark is helping to develop a picture of the planet's interior.
November 1, 2003
Linda Kalnejais
Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry student Linda Kalnejais works in the coastal zone, studying the toxic metals that can accumulate there through pollution released into rivers, drainage systems and groundwater.
February 24, 2004
Diane Poehls
On her 22nd birthday, Biology student Diane Poehls received a most unusual present: a chance to spend the next day under 2500 meters (1.5 miles) of seawater.
October 1, 2003
Timothy Prestero
Timothy Prestero wants to change the world. He's doing it, through a company he co-founded while working on his MIT/WHOI Joint Program degrees.
December 1, 2003
Geoffrey "Jake" Gebbie
Physical Oceanography student Jake Gebbie uses data collected from ships and satellites to develop numerical models that help scientists understand long term weather and climate change.
April 1, 2004
MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Biology
Vanja Klepac-Ceraj and Petra Klepac are sisters studying in Massachusetts. But their home is Croatia, where childhood sailing trips sparked their interest in marine science careers. Today they are both students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.