Physical Oceanography
Observed deep cyclonic eddies around Southern Greenland
As part of the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program, 135 acoustically-tracked RAFOS (Range And Fixing of Sound, floats were released…
Read MoreAre the impacts of the observed Arctic Sea-ice variability on the cold season atmospheric circulation underestimated in AGCM experiments?
Liang, Y.-C., C. Frankignoul, Y.-O. Kwon, G. Gastineau, E. Manzini, G. Danabasoglu, L. Suo, S. Yeager, Y. Gao, J.J. Attema, A. Cherchi, R. Ghosh, D. Matei, J.V. Mecking, T. Tian,…
Read MoreA Clam at Sunrise in the Mid-Atlantic Bight
The sun rises over the Mid-Atlantic Bight behind an ocean quahog perched on the side of the F/V ESS Pursuit during a recent research cruise. Ocean quahogs are the longest-living,…
Read MoreSpatial and temporal variability of the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras
Andres, M. (2021). Spatial and temporal variability of the Gulf Stream near Cape Hatteras. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2021JC017579. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017579 As part of the NSF-funded Processes driving Exchange at Cape Hatteras (PEACH)…
Read MoreClam Research Cruise on the F/V ESS Pursuit
Postdoc Nina Whitney and scientists from University of Mississippi and Virginia Institute of Marine Science…
Read MoreR/V Armstrong tracks Arctic freshwater along the southeast Greenland shelf
Assistant scientist Nick Foukal and Research Assistant Jessica Kozik have been deploying surface drifters and profiling floats along the southeast Greenland shelf during the OOI Irminger cruise aboard the R/V…
Read MorePO’s New MIT/WHOI Joint Program Students
Meet PO’s most recent group of MIT/WHOI Joint Program Students
Read MoreProject funded to digitize and mine weather data from whaling logbooks
An ongoing collaborative effort by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMassD), and Providence Public Library (PPL), has received a grant from FM Global. The project is investigating the role of historical weather data in current climate change research, and the increasingly urgent issues surrounding it.
Read MoreShoreside CTD Support for OOI Irminger 8 Cruise
US OSNAP works together with OOI to provide shoreside support of Shipboard CTD data collection…
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Investigator Greg Koman
Greg Koman, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Investigator Jia-Rui (Ray) Shi
Jia-Rui (Ray) Shi, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Scholar Duo Chan
Duo Chan, Postdoctoral Scholar, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Investigator Alex Kinsella
Alex Kinsella, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreWelcome Postdoctoral Fellow Alma Carolina Castillo-Trujillo
Alma Carolina Castillo-Trujillo, Postdoctoral Fellow, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreReview Evaluates the Evidence for an Intensifying Indian Ocean Water Cycle
Report Calls for Better Integration of Observations, Models, and Paleo Proxies The Indian Ocean has been warming much more than other ocean basins over the last 50-60 years. While temperature…
Read MoreAn idealized modeling study of the midlatitude variability of the wind-driven meridional overturning circulation
Spall, M.A., 2021: An Idealized Modeling Study of the Midlatitude Variability of the Wind-Driven Meridional Overturning Circulation. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 2425-2441, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0317.1 The amplitude of the wind-forced meridional overturning…
Read MoreA rare mission north
Serendipitous science mission aboard the Polar Star provides “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity to collect critical ocean data below the ice
Read MoreSalinity Maximum Intrusion Cruise
Under the lead of Glen Gawarkiewicz the R/V Neil Armstrong surveys the Southern New England shelfbreak…
Read MoreSpotlight on Administrative Associate Andrea Harvey
This month, we are spotlighting PO’s Andrea Harvey, who joined WHOI in 2016…
Read MoreMaine’s having a lobster boom. A bust may be coming.
The waters off Maine’s coast are warming, and no one knows what that’s going to mean for the state’s half-billion-dollar-a-year lobster industry—the largest single-species fishery in North America. Some fear that continued warming could cause the lobster population to collapse. To understand what’s happening to the ecosystem of the Gulf of Maine, says Glen Gawarkiewicz, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in Massachusetts, you have to look beyond it—see how it’s affected by the atmosphere, ocean currents, and rivers that flow into it.
Read MoreScience RoCS Initiative responds to need for increased ocean monitoring
Commercial ships are helping oceanographers deploy robotic Argo floats to keep an eye on hard-to-reach parts of the ocean
Read MoreThe ocean science-art connection
Some of the most complex insights in marine science are no match for the communicative power of art. Check out these five recent collaborations between ocean scientists and artists
Read MoreState of the Observatory Report gives an overview of the 20 year history of the observatory and outlines possible paths for the future of MVCO and its assets
Kirincich, A. (2021) Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory 2021: State of the Observatory Report. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Schematic drawing of MVCO’s assets, the Air-Sea Interaction Tower, Offshore Node, Meteorological Mast,…
Read MoreSeasonal prediction of bottom temperature on the Northeast U.S. continental shelf
Chen, Z., Y.-O. Kwon, K. Chen, P. Fratantoni, G. Gawarkiewicz, T.J. Joyce, T.J. Miller, J.A. Nye, V.S. Saba, and B.C. Stock, 2021: Seasonal Prediction of Bottom Temperature on the Northeast…
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