Physical Oceanography
Upstream 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…
Read MoreRising tides, resilient spirits
As surrounding seas surge, a coastal village prepares for what lies ahead
Read MoreDynamics of inertial particles in flows with stochasticity
Rogers, M., & Rypina, I. (2025). Dynamics of inertial particles in flows with stochasticity. Journal of Physical Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-24-0117.1 In this paper we derive and test a simple advection-diffusion model for the evolution of distributions of small,…
Read MoreBuoy Lunch: WHOI in the Old Days by George Tupper
Last month’s Buoy Lunch, presented by George Tupper, was an exciting peek into a time when the approaches to physical oceanography were different, or, perhaps, comfortingly similar, to the…
Read MoreShikhar Rai
Postdoc
Research Keywords: Air-sea interactions, Modeling, Theory
Life at the margins
Scientists investigate the connections between Ghana’s land, air, sea and blue economy through the Ocean Margins Initiative
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Jilian Xiong
Postdoctoral Investigator Jilian Xiong joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreScientists use salinity to trace changes in the U.S. Northeast coastal ocean
Scientists are using salt as a tracer to investigate how much the influx of warm, salty offshore water onto the continental shelf contributes to the observed seasonal “erosion” of the cold pool.
Read MoreSeasonal salinification of the US Northeast continental shelf Cold Pool driven by imbalance between cross-shelf fluxes and vertical mixing
Taenzer, L. L., Chen, K., Plueddemann, A. J., & Gawarkiewicz, G. G. (2025). Seasonal Salinification of the US Northeast Continental Shelf Cold Pool Driven by Imbalance Between Cross-Shelf Fluxes and…
Read MorePostdoctoral Investigator Yang Yu
Postdoctoral Investigator Yang Yu joins WHOI’s PO Department.
Read MoreExperiencing an International Geophysics Conference as a Postdoc by Maurice Huguenin
Last month, I had the privilege to help convene, present my science and attend the European Geophysical Union (EGU) annual meeting in Vienna, Austria. What an experience it has been!…
Read MoreEGU 2025 in Vienna, Austria – by MIT/WHOI Joint Program Student Sean Chen
It was a warm and beautiful week in central Europe. Several of us from the PO department had a wonderful time presenting and learning everyone else’s research, while also soaking…
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