Physical Oceanography
Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Is the Ocean Circulation Speeding Up?
Carl Wunsch, Harvard University
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Why Equatorial Warm Water Volume (WWV) is a Good El Niño Predictor and How We Might Make it Better
Allan Clarke, Florida State University
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Search and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures
Schematic diagram showing how TRAPs attract people lost at sea (Taken from Serra et al., 2020)
Predicting the location of a person lost at sea several hours […]
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Baby Coral Versus the Raging Sea: Larval Behaviour, Dispersal, and Population Connectivity in the Deep Sea
Stefan Gary, Bowdoin College
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Inferring Mixing from Acoustic Observations of Double-Diffusive Staircases in the Arctic Ocean
Nicole Shibley, Yale
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Welcome Postdoctoral Investigator Jacob Steinberg
Jacob Steinberg, Postdoctoral Investigator, joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Vertical Velocity and Nutrient Delivery in Warm Core Rings
Ke Chen, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Modeling Icebergs in Glacial and Modern Climates
Till Wagner, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Commitments to Climate Change
Megan Lickley, MIT
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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What did scientists learn from Deepwater Horizon?
Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion caused the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, WHOI marine geochemists Elizabeth Kujawinski and Christopher Reddy review what they— and their science colleagues from around the world—have learned.
Read MoreSpecial Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: On the Recirculation and Subduction of Atlantic Water in Fram Strait
Wilken von Appen, Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Quasi-Biennial Rossby and Kelvin Waves in the South Indian Ocean: Tropical and Subtropical Modes and the Indian Ocean Dipole
Viviane Menezes, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Shelfbreak Downwelling in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea
Nicholas Foukal, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Strong and Prolonged Warm Water Flow toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017
Svenja Ryan, WHOI
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
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$8.3M award to WHOI extends observational record of critical climate research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $8.3 million to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to extend the life of the Overturning in the Sub-polar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) in a key part of Earth’s ocean-climate system.
Read MoreIndian Ocean phenomenon spells climate trouble for Australia
New international research by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues has found a marked change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.
Read MoreStudy reveals rapid sea-level rise along U.S. Atlantic coast in 18th century
During the 18th century, sea levels along a stretch of the Atlantic coast of North America were rising almost as fast as they were during the 20th Century, reveals a new study.
Read MoreCliMa-Ocean: An Ocean Model for the 21st Century
Brandon Allen, MIT
Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Welcome Research Associate Thomas Meunier
Thomas Meunier, Research Associate, joins WHOI’s PO Department
Read MoreOceans of Change
“THE SEA NEVER CHANGES, AND ITS WORKS, FOR ALL THE TALK OF MEN, ARE WRAPPED IN MYSTERY.” So observed the narrator of “Typhoon,” Joseph Conrad’s 1902 novella. But today, we […]
Read MoreOceans of Change
Oceans of Change
WHOI scientists learn how the ocean shapes—and is shaped by—global climate
By Madeline Drexler
(Photo by Simon Buchou on Unsplash)
“THE SEA NEVER CHANGES, AND […]
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Pseudo-nitzschia Bloom Dynamics in the Gulf of Maine: Insights from Observations and Modeling
Suzi Clark, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Deconstructing the Seasonality of the West Greenland Boundary Current System
Astrid Pacini, […]