Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

There will be no seminars today
2026-06-01 00:00, 2026-06-05 00:00, 2026-06-08 00:00 (America/New_York)

MC&G Department Hybrid Seminar: There Goes the Neighborhood: The Nitrogen Cycle's Response to its Redox Neighbors and Redoxcline Disturbance
2026-06-02 12:15 - 13:00 | Clark 507, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543
Scott Wankel, WHOI
Sponsored by: MC&G Department – Clark 507
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/SEgYhJloR-K5XLHyA5Kz1A

Physical Oceanography Department Seminar: Vertical Momentum Mixing In The Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its Role in Tropical Convection
2026-06-02 15:05 - 16:00 | Clark 507, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543
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 the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/91962600638?pwd=[REDACTED]

Summer Lecture Series
2026-06-03 09:30 - 11:00 | Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Glacial Meltwater Discharged Into The North Atlantic: Where Does It Go And How Fast?
Olivier Marchal, WHOI
Shipwrecks As Models For Understanding A Changing Ocean
Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser, WHOI
Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office – Redfield Auditorium

AOP&E Department Hybrid Seminar: Using Sound to Learn About the Ocean
2026-06-03 12:15 - 13:00 | Smith Conference Room, 86 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
John Ragland, WHOI
Sponsored by: AOP&E Department – Smith Conference Room
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Smith Conference Room. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/95224364638
Meeting ID: 952 2436 4638
Dial in: 646 558 8656

Special Screening of the documentary film "Troubled Waters" on June 4
2026-06-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Cornelia Clapp Auditorium

Second Annual Woods Hole Pride Parade and Picnic
2026-06-06 11:00 - 13:00
Are you ready to show up for Woods Hole Pride? Save the date for Glow Woods Hole’s second annual “Woods Hole Pride Parade and Picnic” on Saturday, June 6. The parade begins at 11 a.m. at the Woods Hole Ballfield (Bell Tower Lane, Woods Hole), continues around Eel Pond, and returns to the park for a BYO Picnic. To get ready, Glow Woods Hole is hosting a poster-making event on Monday, June 1, at the Church of the Messiah (16 Church St., Woods Hole, 2nd floor). Poster-making material will be provided, but feel free to bring your own! Pizza will be provided! Please register here to ensure enough materials (and pizza).

MC&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Developing a Reagentless In-Situ Sensor for Measurements of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in Seawater
2026-06-09 12:15 - 13:00 | Clark 507, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543
Jonathan Pfeifer, WHOI
Sponsored by: MC&G Department – Clark 507
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/SEgYhJloR-K5XLHyA5Kz1A

Physical Oceanography Department Seminar: Global Dynamic Indexes And Energetics Of Lateral Mixing
2026-06-09 15:05 - 16:00 | Clark 507, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543
Rui Huang, 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 the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/91962600638?pwd=[REDACTED]

Summer Lecture Series
2026-06-10 09:30 - 11:00 | David Center, 360 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
9:30 a.m.
Active Listening with Passive Acoustics: Discovering Biological Hotspots on Coral Reefs with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Seth McCammon, WHOI
10:10 a.m.
Algorithmic Field Robotics
Nare Karapetyan, WHOI
Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office – David Center Social Hub

AOP&E Department Hybrid Seminar: Factor Graphs and Robust Perception for Marine Robotics
2026-06-10 12:15 - 13:00 | Smith Conference Room, 86 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Michael Kaess, Carnegie Mellon University
Sponsored by: AOP&E Department – Smith Conference Room
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Smith Conference Room. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/95224364638
Meeting ID: 952 2436 4638
Dial in: 646 558 8656

Doctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Isotopic Constraints on Thermochemical Transfer Across Mantle Boundaries
2026-06-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Clark 507, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543
Jonas Kaare-Rasmussen, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
Sponsored by: Academic Programs – Clark 507
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 507. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97995189336

There will be no MC&G Department Seminar today
2026-06-16 12:15 - 13:00, 2026-06-23 12:15 - 13:00

Physical Oceanography Department Seminar: A Decadal Perspective on the Northwest Atlantic: Slope Sea Variability and Connections to Recent Observed Trends
2026-06-16 15:05 - 16:00 | Clark 201, 366 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Svenja Ryan, 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 the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/91962600638?pwd=[REDACTED]

Summer Lecture Series
2026-06-17 09:30 - 11:00 | Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
9:30 a.m.
The Ocean’s Alkalinity Cycle and its Ability to Store Carbon
Adam Subhas, WHOI
10:10 a.m.
Ice Cores and Paleoclimate
Sarah Shackleton, WHOI
Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office – Redfield Auditorium

AOP&E Department Hybrid Seminar:Robust UUV/USV Single/Multi-Agent Localization and Semantic Mapping for Marine Autonomy
2026-06-17 12:15 - 13:00 | Smith Conference Room, 86 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Josh Mangelson, Brigham Young University
Sponsored by: AOP&E Department – Smith Conference Room
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Smith Conference Room. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/95224364638
Meeting ID: 952 2436 4638
Dial in: 646 558 8656

G&G Department Hybrid Seminar: Challenges For Elucidating The Formation Mechanism Of Rare Earth-Enriched Layers In The Pelagic Deep-Sea Sediments In The Pacific Ocean
2026-06-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Clark 237, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543, United States
Erika Tanaka, Kochi University & University of California, Santa Cruz
Sponsored by: G&G Department – Clark 237
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Clark 237. If you wish to join virtually, you can access the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/92806546940?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 928 0654 6940
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Polar Lunch Seminar: Antarctic Coastal Polynya Interactions with Circumpolar Deep Water
2026-06-18 13:15 - 14:00 | Clark 509, 366 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543, United States
Galen Wilcox, WHOI
Sponsored by: WHOI Polar Group – Clark 509

AOSE Steinbach Scholar: Progress in Marine Robotic Perception, Localization, and Mapping for Ecological Monitoring, Infrastructure Inspection, and Defense
2026-06-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Josh Mangelson, BYU
Sponsored by: AOSE – Redfield Auditorium

Friday Evening Lecture Series: Kinase Turntabilism: Tuning T Cell Activation
2026-06-19 19:30 - 20:30 | Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
Avery August, HHMI
Sponsored by: MBL – Cornelia Clapp Auditorium
This will be a hybrid seminar held in Cornelia Clapp Auditorium. If you wish to join virtually, you can register here:
Join Us for Dinner
An optional buffet dinner precedes each Falmouth Forum lecture.
6:00 PM: Swope Center, 5 North Street, Woods Hole
Tickets: $42/each or reserve a table of eight
Purchase tickets in advance HERE on sale two weeks prior to the event.
Dinner tickets are available until they sell out or until 5:00 pm on the Wednesday prior to the event. We regret that no tickets will be sold at the door.

WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY (WHPL)
2026-06-20 00:00 - 2026-06-22 00:00 | Woods Hole Public Library, 581 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543
Dream Tale Puppets will perform Three Little Pigs for children ages 3 and up and their families on Saturday, June 20, at 2 p.m. at the library. Three Little Pigs is a delightful 25-minute puppet show for young audiences that brings the beloved classic story to life with humor, imagination, and lively puppetry. Performed on and around a cloth-covered tabletop stage, the show follows three clever piglets as they build their very different houses and outwit the big, bad wolf. Along the way, audiences meet Mommy Pig, enjoy playful dialogue and funny surprises, and watch a colorful mix of rod puppets, hand puppets, and creative props transform simple materials into a magical theatrical world. The performance features two experienced artists from Dream Tale Puppets. Sarah Kahn provides narration and voices for the characters, while Jacek Zuzanski brings the puppets to life through expressive movement and performance. Founded in 2003 in Mashpee, Dream Tale Puppets creates engaging puppet theatre experiences and offers workshops and classes for children, families, and adult puppetry enthusiasts. This program is part of Dream Tale Puppets’ 2026 Puppetry Series, sponsored by the Woods Hole Community Association and supported by a grant from the Woods Hole Foundation. Look out for more programs coming to the Woods Hole Community Hall this summer. For more information, visit: https://dreamtalepuppets.org. Join local artists Dawna Hammers & Sue Beardsley for an inspiring program centered on the healing power of music and the quiet strength of caregiving on June 22, 2026, from 3-4 p.m. The program will begin with a screening of “Music is Medicine,” a short documentary video produced by Dawna Hammers thanks to a grant from the Cape Cod Art’s Foundation. The video explores how music can uplift, connect, and comfort individuals facing physical & cognitive challenges. Following the film, artist and author Sue Beardsley will present a brief talk on her new book, “Comfort,” a daily reflection guide created to support caregivers of those living with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Complimentary copies of “Comfort” will be available, and attendees are invited to stay for an author signing with Sue Beardsley and a short sing-along with Dawna Hammers. Thoughtful and engaging, this program offers insight, encouragement, and a sense of community for caregivers, families, and all who are drawn to the role of creativity in healing. Caregivers and their loved ones are more than welcome to come!

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lectures: Fundamentals 1: Equations, Stratification and Interfacial Internal Waves with No Rotation
2026-06-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Walsh Cottage, 569 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Bruce Sutherland, University of Alberta
Sponsored by: GFD Program – Walsh Cottage

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lectures: Fundamentals 2: Waves in Uniform Stratification, Near Inertial Waves, and Relevance to Ocean
2026-06-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Walsh Cottage, 569 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Jennifer MacKinnon, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, UCSD
Sponsored by: GFD Program – Walsh Cottage

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lectures: Oceanic IGW 1: Historical Beginnings, Abyssal Recipes, Energy Budgets and Observed Spectra
2026-06-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Walsh Cottage, 569 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States

Physical Oceanography Department Seminar: Title to be announced
2026-06-23 15:05 - 16:00 | Clark 201, 366 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Isabela Le Bras, 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 the Zoom link here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/91962600638?pwd=[REDACTED]

Summer Lecture Series
2026-06-24 09:30 - 11:00 | Clark 507, 360 Woods Hole Road, WOODS HOLE, MA, 02543
9:30 a.m.
Dolphin Communication: Current Research Directions
Laela Sayigh, WHOI
10:10 a.m.
Impacts of Hydrothermal Venting on Modern and Ancient Iron Cycle
Andy Heard, WHOI
Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office – Clark 507

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lectures: IGW Generation 1: Oscillating Cylinder, Flow Over Hills, Lee Waves And Other Nonrotating Phenomena
2026-06-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Walsh Cottage, 569 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
