Geology & Geophysics
Warm water could persist within icy ocean worlds
A new study investigates how the influence of low gravity, as found on ocean worlds in our solar system, impacts flow of water and heat below their seafloors.
Read MoreGeophysical Fluid Dynamics Program: Near-Inertial Waves Interacting with Balanced Flows
Basile Gallet, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS
Sponsored by: WHOI GFD Program – Walsh Cottage
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program: Turbulent Transport in the Ocean, Part II: Multiscale Approach
Basile Gallet, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS
Sponsored by: WHOI GFD Program – Walsh Cottage
Counting on Corals
As struggling reefs put a squeeze on Belize’s Blue Economy, could heat-tolerant corals be the answer?
Read MoreGeophysical Fluid Dynamics Program: Turbulent Transport in the Ocean, Part I: Baroclinic Turbulence
Basile Gallet, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS
Sponsored by: WHOI GFD Program – Walsh Cottage
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program: Two-Dimensional Turbulence Above Topography
Basile Gallet, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS
Sponsored by: WHOI GFD Program – Walsh Cottage
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lecture: Multiscale Modeling of Layered Anisotropic Stratified Turbulence
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire
Sponsored by: WHOI GFD Program – Walsh Cottage
Wave activity on Saturn’s largest moon
MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers find wave activity on Saturn’s largest moon may be strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas.
Read MoreG&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Subduction Through the Lens of Arc Geochemistry
Stephen Tuner, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, you […]
G&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Probing the Hydration State of Deep Lithosphere: Insights from Arcs and Mid-Ocean Ridges
Ben Urann, WHOI
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the […]
Five new hydrothermal vents discovered in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
Ocean scientists discovered the new deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites on the seafloor at 2,550 meters (8366 feet, or 1.6 miles) depth.
Read MoreStudy says ice age could help predict oceans’ response to global warming
Woods Hole, MA – A team of scientists led by a Tulane University oceanographer and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has found that deposits deep under the ocean floor […]
Read MoreG&G Department Hybrid Seminar: New Insights into the Formation and Dynamics of Low-Lying Reef Islands
Murray Ford, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join […]
Evidence of Climate Change in the North Atlantic can be Seen in the Deep Ocean, Study Finds
Woods Hole, Mass. –Evidence of climate change in the North Atlantic during the last 1,000 years can be seen in the deep ocean, according to a newly published paper led […]
Read MoreUnlocking the Earth’s time capsule
Mantle rocks and fluids from one of the final expeditions on the R/V JOIDES Resolution will provide insights into how Earth was formed—and maybe how life began—for generations of scientists
Read MoreScientists Discover Additional Healthy Deep-sea Coral Reefs and New Seamounts in the Galápagos
Stunning 800 meter-long coral reef discovered with Schmidt Ocean Institute’s underwater robot off Galápagos Islands
Puerto Ayora, Ecuador– Scientists examining underwater cliff ecosystems onboard research vessel Falkor(too) using the 4,500 meter […]
Read MoreG&G Department Hybrid Seminar: The Bifaceted Role of fO2 on the Differentiation of Arc Magmas: An Experimental Study
Manuel Pimenta Silva, ETH, Switzerland
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, you can […]
G&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Mapping the Coastal Seabed to Understand Past and Future Coastal Change in Australia
Michael (Mike) A. Kinsela, University of Newcastle, Australia
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 201
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join […]
G&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Serpentinite- and Gabbro-Hosted Springs: Exploring the Geochemistry Some of the Most Alkaline and Reduced Fluids on Earth
James Leong, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, […]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Heather Benway Receives AGU Honor
Heather Benway, a senior research specialist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the recipient of the 2023 Ocean Science Award from the American Geological Union (AGU).
Read MoreG&G Department Hybrid Seminar: The H Content of Terrestrial Building Blocks: Constraints from Meteorites and Experiments
Liam Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, […]
G&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Mantle Convection, Water, Continents, and the Oceans
John Whitehead, WHOI
Sponsored by: G&G – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom […]
G&G Department Hybrid Seminar: The Mantle Heterogeneity: Pandora’s Box of the Romanche FZ, Equatorial Atlantic
Daniele Brunelli, University of Modena, Italy
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, you […]
Geology & Geophysics Steinbach Scholar: Triple Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry and Paleoaltimetry
Daniel Ibarra, Brown University
Sponsored by: Geology & Geophysics Department – Clark 507