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NEWS RELEASES

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.


WHOI | OCEANUS

What’s happening with AMOC?

Scientists discuss the state of the Atlantic Ocean’s ‘conveyor belt’


Heatwave Photo

Record-level heat is predicted for the months, and years, ahead. Why is this happening?

Ongoing climate change and a naturally-occurring El Niño event overlap to bring the heat


Brian Halligan

Propelling a new wave of ocean-climate solutions

WHOI researchers get a boost from climate-tech fund Propeller


underwater

Solving climate challenges, one innovation at a time

WHOI researchers report progress on projects funded by the Ocean Climate Innovation Accelerator


Paddling Illustration

Paddling an angry, ancient ocean

If ancient Beringians got to the Americas by boat, it couldn’t have been easy


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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