Physical Oceanography
As Hurricane Laura raged, silent sentinels kept watch from below
Underwater instruments deployed by WHOI scientists have been taking the temperature of the ocean in Hurricane Laura’s path to measure the water’s heat content.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling for Prediction of Mediterranean Heavy Precipitation Events: Better Modeling and Impacts of River Runoff and Sea State
Cesar Sauvage, WHOI
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Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar:Likely Weakening of the Florida Current During the Past Century Revealed by Sea-Level Observations
Chris Piecuch, WHOI
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Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Flow-Topography Interactions and Mixing in the Samoan Passage
Jesse Cusack, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Florida Current is Weaker Now Than at Any Point in the Past Century
A key component of the Gulf Stream has markedly slowed over the past century—that’s the conclusion of a new research paper in Nature Communications published on August 7. The […]
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Microstructure Observations of Mixing and Turbulent Heat Fluxes in the Western Arctic Ocean
Effie Fine, WHOI
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Hot ocean waters along East Coast are drawing in ‘weird’ fish and supercharging hurricane season
Warm waters are a major concern with Hurricane Isaias forecast to ride up the Eastern Seaboard. Glen Gawarkiewicz, an oceanographer at WHOI, describes Gulf Stream fish being caught off Block […]
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Enhanced Abyssal Mixing in the Equatorial Pacific Associated with Non-Traditional Effects
Bertrand Delorme, Stanford University
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A Story Map for Marie Tharp’s 100th birthday
Data acquired aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) research vessel Atlantis from 1946 – 1953 were shared with Marie as she began to assemble the first detailed […]
Read More17 Historical Mysteries People Would Really Like Answers To
In 2002, documentarian Anne MacGregor and Phil Richardson, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, speculated that the Mary Celeste was abandoned the day after the log’s final entry […]
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Eddy Vertical Structure and Variability: Deepglider Observations of Geostrophic Turbulence in the North Atlantic
Jake Steinberg, WHOI
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HMS Challenger: The voyage that birthed oceanography
“The measurements of the Challenger expedition set the stage for all branches of oceanography,” explained Dr Jake Gebbie, associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Read MoreWHOI Scientists Make Woods Hole Film Festival Appearance
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists appear in two shorts and a feature film at this year’s Woods Hole Film Festival (WHFF). In addition, scientists will also participate in Q&A […]
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: The Influence of an Eddy on Cross-Shelf Transport of Passively Advected or Actively Swimming Biological Organisms
Irina Rypina, WHOI
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Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Iron, Light, and the Biological Response to Simulated Southern Ocean Eddies
Tyler Rohr, MIT
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‘High-octane’ hurricane fuel swirls in the Gulf of Mexico
Researchers deploy an arsenal of underwater floats to monitor the Loop Current—one of the Atlantic Ocean’s fastest and warmest currents—to collect critical data for hurricane forecasting.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: On the Interaction Between Submesoscales and Turbulence: From Theory to Global Climate Models
Abigail Bodner, Brown University
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OSNAP Cruise
Members of WHOI prepare the CTD rosette for an optode calibration dip.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Potential Vorticity Dynamics of the Arctic Halocline
Michael Spall, WHOI
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Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Fluctuations of the Atlantic North Equatorial Undercurrent and Associated Changes in Oxygen Transports
Kristin Burmeister, Scottish Association for Marine Science
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USA: Twelve Offshore Wind R&D Projects Selected for Funding
The U.S. National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium (NOWRDC) has selected twelve projects for contract negotiation, completing its first solicitation for offshore wind research and development technology projects.
Read MoreWHOI researchers head back to sea after “pause” in research expeditions
After ten weeks of preparation, nine science team members from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will depart on the R/V Neil Armstrong from Woods Hole, MA on Sunday 7 June 2020 for an 11-day expedition to service the Pioneer Array, a collection of ocean observing equipment off the New England coast, 55 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard.
Read MorePioneer Cruise
After 14 days of quarantine, a nine-person science team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution boarded the R/V Neil Armstrong.
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