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WHOI scientists aim to improve the study of marine heatwaves

Researchers call for regional and context-specific approaches to these extreme events


Coastal retreat in Alaska is accelerating because of compound climate impacts

Observations have shown coastal erosion as an increasing Arctic hazard, but other hazards—including sea level rise and permafrost thaw subsidence—have received less attention.


Coring a Salt Marsh

A new report on coastal resilience

New report released during NY Climate Week and upcoming UN General Assembly high-level plenary meeting on threats posed by sea level rise


Can adding iron to the ocean help it absorb CO2?

A newly published article spells out the work needed to assess the potential of ocean iron fertilization as a low cost, scalable, and rapidly deployable method of mCDR.


Pacific Ocean

Sea Surface Temperature Research Provides Clear Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Change

New oceanic research provides clear evidence of a human “fingerprint” on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the seasonal cycle amplitude of sea surface temperatures.


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Where Ocean and Ice Meet

Where Ocean and Ice Meet


Exploring the Arctic in the Midst of Change

Exploring the Arctic in the Midst of Change

Chief Scientist Bob Pickart and his 26-member science team were in the hangar at the Barrow Air Search and Rescue Station, waiting for the helicopter. An Inupiat community barnacled to a rocky beach at the northern tip of the North Slope of Alaska, Barrow is the most practical departure point for research cruises into the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. But Barrow has no harbor, which is why we needed an airlift to reach the research…


Science in Service to the Nation

Science in Service to the Nation

In 1863, as the Civil War raged, Congress established the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an honorary society of scholars that any government department could call upon to  “investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art.” In 1916, during another war, the NAS created the National Research Council to draw on the expertise of a wider scientific community. The NRC enlists committees of the nation’s top scientists, engineers, and other experts, all…


The Once and Future Corals

The Once and Future Corals


Life in the Arctic ... After Climate Change

Life in the Arctic … After Climate Change


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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