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Solving a Climate Mystery
In 2013, a WHOI-led research team set sail for the Eastern Beaufort Sea. Their mission: to search for evidence of a huge, ancient, freshwater flood caused by the melting of…
Read MoreOld, Cold Seafloor
Well-bundled against the cold, WHOI engineer Christopher Griner (left) and guest student Christopher Maio prepare the Giant Gravity Core to sample seafloor sediments near the mouth of the Mackenzie River…
Read MoreSpilhaus projection of the world’s oceans
An ocean-focused world The Spilhaus Projection presents the world seas and oceans as a single body of water. It was originally created by Athelstan Spilhaus, a geophysicist and oceanographer, who…
Read MoreTremors of the deep sea
We can all imagine the devastation hurricanes bring ashore. Well it turns out that hurricanes could be just as devastating to denizens of the deep ocean.
Read MoreA Moment to Celebrate
U.S. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., (back row, center) wishes the submersible Alvin a happy 50th birthday while holding a t-shirt commemorating the occasion during a recent visit to WHOI. Markey…
Read MoreAround the Table
Climate change was the talk of the day for U.S. Senator Edward Markey, D-Mass., (head of the table on the left) during a visit to WHOI in July. Markey heard…
Read MoreFeeling the Heat
Chinstrap penguins pant on a warm summer day at Orne Harbor, in the western Antarctic Peninsula, during a research expedition led by WHOI post-doctoral scholar Michael Polito and Tom Hart from…
Read MoreThe View from Below
A camera mounted on a rosette sampler captured this unusual view of the starboard A-frame of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy from the water of the Beaufort Sea north of…
Read MoreMeet You Back Here
Leaving research vessel Atlantis behind, R/V Knorr departs WHOI’s dock for two weeks of work on the northeast continental slope of North America. The area, known to oceanographers as Line…
Read MoreMuddy Past
Konrad Hughen, a paleoclimatologist in the WHOI Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, recently worked with archaeologist and anthropologists to show that Neanderthals probably did not die out from an…
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