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Degraded coral

Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement

March 13, 2024

Researchers at WHOI demonstrated that replaying healthy reef sounds could potentially be used to encourage coral larvae to recolonize damaged or degraded reefs.

Aerial Imagery of Penguins

High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations

March 13, 2024

High resolution satellite imagery and field-based validation surveys have provided the first multi-year time series documenting emperor penguin populations.

Pectinereis strickrotti

New Deep-Sea Worm Discovered at Methane Seep Off Costa Rica Named after Alvin Pilot Bruce Strickrott

March 6, 2024

The creature raises the number of new species found by scientists studying these seemingly inhospitable ecosystems to 48

 

Woods Hole, Mass. — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), along with UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (Scripps) and other researchers, […]

New federal funding to accelerate ocean-climate resilience

February 21, 2024

WHOI-led team receives funding to help small businesses prepare communities across the nation for climate change

Sea Grant

WHOI Sea Grant commits $1.7 million to coastal research

February 16, 2024

The funding will support five major projects from watershed contaminant monitoring to data collection for sustainable fisheries and more

wind farm

Collaboration to monitor sea, weather, and wildlife

February 15, 2024

The U.S. DOE, WHOI, and partners to collect data near an East Coast offshore wind site

Fin Whale

New Research Reveals: The New York Bight Is an Important Year-Round Habitat for Endangered Fin Whales

February 15, 2024

Researchers aim to use their science to help inform best practices and strategies to better protect fin whales in waters off NY and NJ

Woods Hole, Mass. – The New York Bight is an important year-round habitat for endangered fin whales, […]

Dr. Elizabeth B. Kujawinski

ASLO honors Elizabeth B. Kujawinski with the 2024 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award

February 13, 2024

Woods Hole, Mass. — Each year, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) honors scientists for their outstanding achievements in aquatic science research, service, and education. The G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award recognizes a mid-career scientist who has […]

Deep Rover underwater

Researchers Studying Ocean Transform Faults, Describe a Previously Unknown Part of the Geological Carbon Cycle

February 12, 2024

Woods Hole, Mass. – Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate scientist in the Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

The rocks […]

Southern Ocean

Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change

February 5, 2024

Woods Hole, Mass. – Vitamin B12 deficiency in people can cause a slew of health problems and even become fatal. Until now, the same deficiencies were thought to impact certain types of algae, as well.  A new study examined the […]

Armstrong and buoy

WHOI Receives $25 Million to Accelerate Search for Ocean-based Climate Solutions

January 30, 2024

Major funding commitment from board chair Paul Salem comes amidst increased attention on ocean’s role in climate and growing pace of funding from public and private sources

A straw in the ocean

Some Plastic Straws Degrade Quicker Than Others, New Study Shows

January 30, 2024

WHOI researchers determine lifetimes of drinking straws in the coastal ocean and develop a prototype bioplastic straw that degrades even faster than paper

An icy sunset

Study says ice age could help predict oceans’ response to global warming

January 22, 2024

Woods Hole, MA – A team of scientists led by a Tulane University oceanographer and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has found that deposits deep under the ocean floor reveal a way to measure the ocean oxygen level and […]

Cup lid at the beach

A new way of looking at plastics

January 8, 2024

WHOI researchers develop a new sustainability metric for plastic products

Large Paragorgia

New Study: Deep Sea Sensor Reveals That Corals Produce Reactive Oxygen Species

December 4, 2023

A new sensor on the submersible Alvin discovered reactive oxygen species for the first time in deep-sea corals, broadening our understanding of fundamental coral physiology 

 

Woods Hole, MA – Just like us, corals breathe in oxygen and eat organic carbon. And just […]

Bloomberg Announcement

Funders invests $250 million to supercharge ocean-based climate solutions

December 4, 2023

Coalition of philanthropic funders invests $250 million to supercharge ocean-based climate solutions

Dubai, UAE – Many of the world’s leading philanthropic funders of ocean research and conservation have joined forces to launch the Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance.

The formation of the Alliance […]

WHOI and IFREMER Handshake

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and IFREMER renew their partnership

December 3, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Today, leaders at two of the world’s leading ocean science institutions signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) extending their working partnership in the exploration, study, and protection of the world’s oceans.

The MOU was signed […]

COP28 Dubai Ocean Declaration

Ocean Pavilion Partners Unveil COP28 Dubai Ocean Declaration

November 20, 2023

Declaration recognizes the critical role of the ocean in regulating climate change, calls for increased ocean observations

Multicorer Recovery

Evidence of Climate Change in the North Atlantic can be Seen in the Deep Ocean, Study Finds

November 17, 2023

Woods Hole, Mass. -Evidence of climate change in the North Atlantic during the last 1,000 years can be seen in the deep ocean, according to a newly published paper led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and […]

Tiger Shark

New Study Sheds Light on Why Some Animals Dive to The Dark, Deep Sea

November 7, 2023

Data from over 300 tags on large marine predators, along with shipboard sonar, point to the ecological importance of the ocean’s twilight zone