Physical Oceanography
Physical Oceanography Department Seminar: Title to be announced
Yan Sun, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 201 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join virtually, you can access…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Seminar: Surface Active to Passive Fronts in the Central California Current System
Joyce Cai, University of Washington Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 201 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join virtually, you…
Read MoreTracking Black-browed albatrosses in the South Atlantic
by Francesco Ventura As part of NASA grant 80NSSC25K7836, PO’s Francesco Ventura led a field campaign to the Falkland Islands to track Black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophris) nesting on Steeple Jason.…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Seminar: Mixing in The Merrimack River Plume: Towards a Partitioning of Lift-Off, Mid-Field and Frontal Mixing
Daniel MacDonald, UMass Dartmouth Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department – Clark 201 This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 201. If you wish to join virtually, you can…
Read MoreCongratulations Dr. Phadtaya Poemnamthip!
Dr. Phadtaya Poemnamthip celebrates a successful thesis defense along with fellow MIT/WHOI joint program students, chair of the defense, members of the thesis committee, friends and family. Dr. Poemnamthip’s doctoral…
Read MoreIt’s the most ocean-friendly map ever created. Why haven’t more people seen it?
Discover the Spilhaus Projection, a radical world map that reveals Earth as one connected ocean—and reshapes how we see the planet.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Seminar: Mixing And Subcritical Flow Of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Equatorial Western Atlantic Ocean
John Whitehead, 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 MoreSvenja Ryan and Caroline Ummenhofer Join Artist Deb Ehrens for “Ocean Fever” Talk at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod
Svenja Ryan and Caroline Ummenhofer at a joint public talk with artist Deb Ehrens at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod on April 11, 2026, for programming for their exhibit “Ocean Fever” that…
Read MoreCongratulations Dr. Weiguang (Roger) Wu!
On April 9, Dr. Weiguang (Roger) Wu celebrated his successful thesis defense—Vertical Transport at Curved Ocean Fronts—with his advisor, Amala Mahadevan, along with fellow MIT/WHOI joint program students, friends, and…
Read MorePO Researchers On Board the R/V Solander for MINTIE Cruise
Adam Houk, Andy Davies, and Dan Torres aboard the R/V Solander…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Seminar: Title to be announced
Malcom Scully, 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 MoreMangrove sediments reveal drivers of Late Holocene sea-level change in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
Sefton, J. P., Kemp, A. C., Engelhart, S. E., Brain, M. J., Ellison, J. C., Creel, R., Piecuch, C. G., Kopp, R. E., Charley, B., & Lihpai, S. (2026). Mangrove sediments reveal…
Read MorePersistent topographic trapping of the Middle Atlantic Bight shelfbreak front
Taenzer, L., Gawarkiewicz, G., & Plueddemann, A. (2026). Persistent Topographic Trapping of the Middle Atlantic Bight Shelfbreak Front. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-25-0075.1 Seasonal position and strength of the MAB shelfbreak front. (a) The shelfbreak frontal…
Read MoreCombining paleocurrents and sea level in a least-cost pathway model of human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul, 65-45,000 years ago
Borreggine, M., Powell, E. M., Fu, M., Yang, X., Weeks, E., Zhang, B., Wilkinson, K., Mitrovica, J. X., Tryon, C., & Meadow, R. (2026). Combining paleocurrents and sea level in a…
Read MoreDirect observations of strong jets transporting deep and bottom water into the Indian Ocean through the fracture zones of the Southwest Indian Ridge
Menezes, V., Furey, H., Torres, D., Bahr, F., & Baker, L. (2026). Direct Observations of Strong Jets Transporting Deep and Bottom Water Into the Indian Ocean Through the Fracture Zones…
Read MoreNorth American ice sheet persistence into past interglacials should inform future projections
Creel, R. C., Kopp, R. E., Dutton, A., Zhou, Y., Raymo, M. E., Britt, C. J., & DeConto, R. M. (2026). North American ice sheet persistence into past interglacials should…
Read MoreMIT/WHOI Joint Program Students Attend the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland
by Anthony Meza and Hiroki Nagao Graduate students and alumni from WHOI’s Physical Oceanography Department recently joined more than 5,000 attendees at the 2026 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland, for a…
Read MoreTracking the hidden currents of Cape Cod Bay
Scientists are using drifters and ocean models to better understand how water, nutrients, and pollutants move through the bay
Read MoreSummer School in Sea Level Science
WHOI/NASA Summer School in Sea Level Science 17-30 May 2026 • Woods Hole, Massachusetts WHEN 17-30 May 2026 WHERE Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts APPLICATIONS 20 March 2026 DEADLINE…
Read MoreCongratulations Dr. Theo Carr!
On January 6, Dr. Theo Carr celebrated his successful thesis defense—Implications of seasonality and asymmetry for ENSO’s predictability, impacts, and future changes—with his advisor, Caroline Ummenhofer, along with fellow MIT/WHOI…
Read MoreRemote and regional drivers of the Indonesian Throughflow under future warming: Implications for Inter-Basin Freshwater Transport
Wang, S., Waitzmann, D., Ummenhofer, C. C., & Oppo, D. W. (2026). Remote and Regional Drivers of the Indonesian Throughflow Under Future Warming: Implications for Inter-Basin Freshwater Transport. Geophysical Research Letters, 53(1),…
Read MoreA multi-agency experiment on internal wave energy, mixing, and interactions and their representation in global ocean models and operational forecasts
Buijsman, M., Waterhouse, A., Zaron, E., Yadidya, B., Xu, C., Whitley, V., Wenegrat, J., Wang, J., Wallcraft, A., Varma, D., Tchonang, B., Siyanbola, O., Shriver, J., Sheremet, V., Send, U.,…
Read MoreMeso-submesoscale surface temperature-salinity compensation and density gradient variability in the North Atlantic from Saildrone observations
Yu, L. (2025). Meso-Submesoscale Surface Temperature-Salinity Compensation and Density Gradient Variability in the North Atlantic from Saildrone Observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-25-0037.1 Why it matters: Existing satellite salinity measurements have resolutions of…
Read MoreNew study finds rate of U.S. coastal sea level rise doubled in the past century
The study finds that the rate of U.S. coastal sea-level rise has more than doubled in the past 125 years.
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