Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
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Dissolving oil in a sunlit sea
A team of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers discovered that nearly 10 percent of the oil floating on the Gulf after the Deepwater Horizon disaster was dissolved into seawater by sunlight – a process called “photo-dissolution”. The findings were published today in the paper “Sunlight-driven dissolution is a major fate of oil at sea” in Science Advances.
Read MoreThe ocean twilight zone’s role in climate change
A new report from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Twilight Zone (OTZ) project team offers a detailed look at the climate-altering processes that take place within the zone, in particular those that are driven by animals that migrate between the twilight zone and the surface each night to feed. This phenomenon is likely the biggest migration on Earth—yet it remains incredibly vulnerable to human exploitation.
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WHOI’s Ken Buesseler named Geochemistry Fellow
Dr. Ken Buesseler has been selected as a Geochemistry Fellow by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry.
Read MoreBen Van Mooy awarded by Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
WHOI senior scientist and Dept. Chair honored for phosphorus and lipid cycling research
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Sulfur in Marine Particles
Morgan Raven, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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What makes the ocean salty?
The water flowing into the ocean comes from freshwater streams and rivers. These bodies of water do contain salt. It dissolves from rocks on land. That’s because rain is slightly acidic.
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Speleothem Constraints on Past Hydroclimate: The Value of Multiple Proxies
Kathleen Johnson, University of California, Irvine
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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Coral time machines
Sophie Hines discusses the paleo-research power of fossil corals
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Diversity and Dynamics of Viruses in the Open Ocean
Elaine Luo, WHOI
Sponsored by: MC&G Department – Clark 507
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MC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Northern Hemispheric Trigger for the Mid Pleistocene Transition
Maayan Yahudai, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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MC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Seasonal and Diel Dynamics of Dissolved Metabolites at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS)
Erin McParland, WHOI
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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MC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Developing Novel Approaches for Studying Polymer Degradation in the Environment
Taylor Nelson, WHOI
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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MC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Testing Controls on Trace Element Proxies in Cold-Water Corals Cultured Under Decoupled Carbonate Chemistry Conditions
Anne Gothmann, St. Olaf College
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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Study finds bio-based cellulose acetate plastic used in consumer goods disintegrates in ocean much faster than assumed
Woods Hole, MA — Cellulose diacetate (CDA), a bio-based plastic widely used in consumer goods, disintegrates, and degrades in the ocean far quicker than previously assumed, according to a new […]
Read MoreAn ocean of opportunity
Ocean experts explore the potential risks and rewards of ocean-based solutions to climate change
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Constraining Ocean CaCO3 Dissolution with a Global Alkalinity Model
Hengdi Liang, University of Southern California
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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Study outlines challenges to ongoing clean-up of burnt and unburnt nurdles along Sri Lanka’s coastline
When a fire broke out on the deck of the M/V XPress Pearl cargo ship on May 20, 2021, an estimated 70-75 billion pellets of preproduction plastic material, known as nurdles, spilled into the ocean and along the Sri Lankan coastline. That spill of about 1,500 tons of nurdles, many of which were burnt by the fire, has threatened marine life and poses a complex clean-up challenge. A new peer-reviewed study characterizes how the fire modified the physical and chemical properties of the nurdles and proposes that these properties affected their distribution along the coast.
Read MoreA coral reef kickstart
WHOI’s Reef Solutions Initiative takes a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate solutions for ailing coral reefs
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Linking Oxygen and Carbon Dynamics to Deep Water Formation Using New Sensor Observations in the Labrador Sea
Dariia Atamanchuk, Dalhousie University
Sponsored by: MC&G Department
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