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Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Wave Goodbye to Stability: How the Madden-Julian Oscillation, Warmer Waters, and Easterly Waves Shake Up Climate
Amanda Bowden, University of Colorado at Boulder Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 201 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join…
Read MoreSetting sail during the Southwest Monsoon
by Katy Abbott This summer, I got the opportunity to spend six weeks at sea in the Bay of Bengal during the Southwest Monsoon. Although I have studied wind-driven processes…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Assessing Submesoscale Sea Surface Height Signals from The SWOT Mission
Joern Callies, Caltech 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: Rossby Waves Over Bathymetry
Joseph Henry Lacasce, University of Oslo Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 201 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join virtually,…
Read MoreTour of PO Labs
Operations Manager Chris Ross shows September PO Tour attendees different types of Moorings. The mooring construction and rigging shop offers a wide range of services and extensive marine hardware…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Hybrid Seminar: Applying Koopman Theory to Oceanographic Data
Larry Pratt, WHOISponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 507This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom…
Read MorePostdoctoral Scholar Jacob Davis
Postdoctoral Scholar Jacob Davis joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Francesco Ventura
Postdoctoral Investigator Francesco Ventura joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Yan Sun
Postdoctoral Investigator Yan Sun joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreSensing Currents at Sunset in Provincetown with HF Radar
Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) team in action
The Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) team loads gear onto the Air-Sea Interaction Tower…
Read MoreUpstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow (UFO) underway in the subpolar North Atlantic
UFO is multi-institutional, interdisciplinary effort to study the origin and pathways of the dense water that feeds the Faroe Bank Channel overflow…
Read MoreWHOI deploys ocean sensors ahead of Hurricane Erin as part of the SASCWATCH project funded by the Office of Naval Research
The next frontier in understanding the coupled ocean–wave–atmosphere system requires detailed investigations of turbulence and wave dynamics within tropical cyclones, using a combination of observational and modeling approaches. To address…
Read MoreKathryn Farabaugh
Chelone Laws
Brayden Mikulski
New program aims to improve hurricane predictions with ocean data
The coordinated combination of in situ observations, satellites, and high-resolution models will allow us to fill gaps in our knowledge of air-sea interactions.
Read MoreBlind and low-vision students dive into ocean science at WHOI through sound and touch
This year’s theme of coral reefs connected students with coral soundscapes, and real coral specimens
Read MoreMIT/WHOI Joint Program Students Teach Science Lesson on Penikese Island
MIT/WHOI Joint Program students Brynn Hamilton and Margaret Gregory in front of the schoolhouse on Penikese Island. The lesson was an introduction to density, buoyancy and mixing. MIT/WHOI Joint Program…
Read MoreDeploying an IWR Array of the Aleutians through the NOPP Global Internal Wave Study
The IWR Array team from the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) Global Internal Wave study just deployed an Internal Wave Resolving Array…
Read MoreIntroduction to the special collection on the Arctic Ocean’s changing Beaufort Gyre
Timmermans, M.-L., Le Bras, I., O’Brien, J., Margevich, A., Macoun, P., Williams, B., & Zimmermann, S. (2025). Introduction to the Special Collection on the Arctic Ocean’s Changing Beaufort Gyre. Journal…
Read MoreGlobal mean sea level changes to ENSO-related regional land water storage
Li, H., Taschetto, A. S., Sen Gupta, A., & Ummenhofer, C. C. (2025). Global Mean Sea Level Changes to ENSO-Related Regional Land Water Storage. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(14), e2025GL115799. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115799 The…
Read MoreLocal versus far-field control on South Pacific Subantarctic mode water variability
Pimm, C., Meijers, A. J. S., Jones, D. C., & Williams, R. G. (2025). Local versus far-field control on South Pacific Subantarctic mode water variability. Ocean Science, 21(4), 1237-1253. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1237-2025…
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