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CUREE is an autonomous underwater vehicle

Toward a New Era of Reef Solutions

WHOI coral reef researchers propose a new technology-centered focus to study and conserve coral reefs


Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt

Opportunistic sampling shows geographic scope of distribution, offer some of the first sampling opportunities


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WHOI Opens 2023 SXSW Conference

WHOI joins experts from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and American Geophysical Union on ocean-based carbon dioxide removal panel


CTD over the side

A Better Understanding of Gas Exchange Between the Atmosphere and Ocean Can Improve Global Climate Models

If scientists can improve the way models represent physical processes such as gas exchange, they can have more confidence in future simulations.


WHOI’s Matt Long and Jeff Coogan dive to check the status of underwater instruments near an eelgrass meadow,

Excess Nutrients Lead to Dramatic Ecosystem Changes in Cape Cod’s Waquoit Bay

The Bay Is a harbinger for estuaries worldwide, say researchers


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COP 29

5 Takeaways for the Ocean from the COP29 Climate Conference

Explore the key outcomes from this year’s UN Climate Conference


Gulf Stream ocean currents

Ocean in Motion

How the ocean’s complex and chaotic physics defines life on our planet


For Ben Santer, the fingerprints of the climate crisis are very human

WHOI distinguished scholar explains the art of climate fingerprinting


Tom Bell

The 10,000-foot view

WHOI’s Tom Bell tracks changes to vulnerable coastal ecosystems with aerial imagery


Paul Salem

A new champion for ocean science

Gift from WHOI’s board chair Paul Salem to jump-start ocean-based climate solutions


Publications

IN THE NEWS - RESEARCH HIGLIGHTS

Study offers first definitive proof that Gulf Stream has weakened

“New research from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution offers the first conclusive evidence that the Gulf Stream has weakened. The powerful ocean current off the East Coast influences regional weather, climate and fisheries, and the finding could have significant implications both for New England and the global climate.”


What Happens to Marine Life When There Isn’t Enough Oxygen?

In September of 2017, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution postdoctoral scholar Maggie Johnson was conducting an experiment with a colleague in Bocas del Toro off the…


Maine’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.


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