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A Small Sip from a Big Gusher

A Small Sip from a Big Gusher

How much oil gushed out of the Deepwater Horizon well and into the Gulf of Mexico? For all stakeholders in the oil spill, that is a critical starting point for…

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Of Wings, Waves, and Winds

Of Wings, Waves, and Winds

“Great albatross! The meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to gain a flight, And spread those pinions grey; But when they once are fairly poised,…

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Stanley Watson

Biologist, businessman, benefactor (Courtesy of WHOI Archives) Institutional buildings are usually named after a person for one of two reasons: The namesake has achieved great things on behalf of the…

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What’s Living in the Ocean?

What's Living in the Ocean?

In 2010, as the United States conducted its latest decadal population census, marine scientists completed their first census to discover the abundance, diversity, and distribution of organisms living in Earth’s…

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Building Them Tough, Bringing Them Back

Building Them Tough, Bringing Them Back

Fifty years ago, on Dec. 11, 1960, a group of scientists, engineers, and technicians from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution set a doughnut-shaped buoy into the waters off Bermuda. Anchored by…

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New Ways to Analyze Ocean Imagery

New Ways to Analyze Ocean Imagery

<!– –> Moore Foundation grant sparks ocean informatics initiative Over the past decade, ocean scientists have built underwater systems that have greatly expanded their capacity to collect images from under…

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Scientists Use “ESP” to Track Harmful Algae

Scientists Use "ESP" to Track Harmful Algae

Researchers in biologist Don Anderson’s lab are celebrating a new arrival—a gleaming, 3-foot-high robotic instrument that promises to revolutionize how scientists detect and study the ocean’s tiny but troublesome inhabitants:…

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Are Whales ‘Shouting’ to be Heard?

Are Whales 'Shouting' to be Heard?

When we’re talking with friends and a truck rumbles by or someone cranks up the radio, we talk louder. Now scientists have found that North Atlantic right whales do the…

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Microbes Hitch Rides on Plastics in the Sea

Microbes Hitch Rides on Plastics in the Sea

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and the International Census of Marine Microbes initiative.

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