Physical Oceanography
Physical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Interpreting the Multi-Decadal-Average Ocean Circulation
Carl Wunsch, MIT Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 507 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: The Zonal Atmosphere Jet and the Gulf Stream
Terry Joyce, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 507 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access…
Read MoreShikhar Rai
Postdoc
Research Keywords: Air-sea interactions, Modeling, Theory
Physical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Near-Inertial Wave Propagation In Curved Fronts
Ramana Patibandla, UMass Dartmouth Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 507 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can…
Read MoreLife at the margins
Scientists investigate the connections between Ghana’s land, air, sea and blue economy through the Ocean Margins Initiative
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Breaking Down and Sinking Through: Mechanisms and Fluxes of Marine Snow
Yixuan Song, University of Rhode Island Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 201 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join virtually,…
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Jilian Xiong
Postdoctoral Investigator Jilian Xiong joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Emulators and Parameterizations: Indirect Tools for Ocean Science
Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 507 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access…
Read MoreScientists use salinity to trace changes in the U.S. Northeast coastal ocean
Scientists are using salt as a tracer to investigate how much the influx of warm, salty offshore water onto the continental shelf contributes to the observed seasonal “erosion” of the cold pool.
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Yang Yu
Postdoctoral Investigator Yang Yu joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreExperiencing an International Geophysics Conference as a Postdoc by Maurice Huguenin
Last month, I had the privilege to help convene, present my science and attend the European Geophysical Union (EGU) annual meeting in Vienna, Austria. What an experience it has been!…
Read MoreEGU 2025 in Vienna, Austria – by MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student Sean Chen
It was a warm and beautiful week in central Europe. Several of us from the PO department had a wonderful time presenting and learning everyone else’s research, while also soaking…
Read MoreAssistant Scientist Svenja Ryan Visiting Kiel, Germany on a Research Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
EGU25 Highlights from the Physical Oceanography Department
WHOI PO postdoc Ali Exley and URI/SGO grad student Lindsay Grose at EGU25. Photo provided by Magdalena Andres.
Read MoreBeaufort Gyre Liquid Freshwater Content Change Under Greenhouse Warming From an Eddy-Resolving Climate Simulation
Shan, X., Spall, M., Sun, S., & Wu, L. (2025). Beaufort Gyre Liquid Freshwater Content Change Under Greenhouse Warming From an Eddy-Resolving Climate Simulation. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(8), e2024GL113847. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113847 Response of the Beaufort…
Read MorePhysical drivers of a massive harmful algal bloom in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas in summer 2022
Lago, L., Pickart, R., Lin, P., Bahr, F., Fachon, E., Brosnahan, M., Pathare, M., Munlbach, W., Horn, K., Rajagopalan, A., & Anderson, D. (2025). Physical Drivers of a Massive Harmful Algal Bloom in the Northern Bering and Chukchi…
Read MoreBuoy Lunch Presentation – PO Administration Station
The Buoy Lunch is a seminar hosted by the PO Department every month featuring different topics of interest to its members. April’s Buoy Lunch was called Administration Station, and it…
Read MoreSeasonal dissolved oxygen gas exchange in the California Current Upwelling System
Ren, A.S., Rudnick, D.L., & Nicholson, D.P. (2025). Seasonal dissolved oxygen gas exchange in the California Current Upwelling System. Progress In Oceanography, 103473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103473 Eastern boundary current systems are known for seasonal upwelling that…
Read MoreHenry Stommel
Henry Stommel transformed oceanography with his insights into ocean circulation.
Read MoreMIT/WHOI JP Students and WHOI Scientists take part in Geodynamics Seminar Program in Patagonia
Icebergs in Lago Grey (Grey Lake). In the background are the forests of the Sendero Refugio Paine and further back are the peaks of Cerro Paine Grande…
Read MoreAthelstan Spilhaus
A WHOI oceanographer, engineer, and futurist whose impact on science stretched from the deep sea to outer space.
Read MoreWHOI oceanographers investigate southern Brazil’s catastrophic flooding
A new WHOI-led study uses satellite data to help uncover what caused devastating flooding and examine how it impacted some of the state’s most vulnerable residents.
Read MoreTroubled Waters – A Short Film Screening and Discussion on Preserving the East Coast Fisheries in a Changing Environment
A Short Film Screening and Discussion on Preserving the East Coast Fisheries in a Changing Environment Monday, April 7, 1-2:30 PM Clapp Auditorium, Marine Biological Laboratory 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole Free and open to the public. Limited on-street parking available.
Read MoreWHOI scientists aim to improve the study of marine heatwaves
Researchers call for regional and context-specific approaches to these extreme events
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