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Diving to Octopus Garden in a Submarine
Check out this amazing footage taken from WHOI’s submersible Alvin in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), where thousands of mother octopuses were discovered nursing their eggs in a place known as Octopus Garden. WHOI principal engineer Andy Bowen talks with Chad King, a research specialist with MBNMS, about the animals and how federally-protected marine sanctuaries are critical to the health and protection of these incredible ecosystems.
Read MoreDiscover Octopus Garden
Watch this amazing footage and learn some cool facts about octopus living two miles below the ocean’s surface, where thousands of mother octopuses were discovered nursing their eggs in a place known as Octopus Garden in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS).
Read MoreHide Out
An anemone fish finds refuge in its namesake location—an anemone. This pair were photographed in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), a place that has drawn attention from scientists […]
Read MoreAt Home in the Tentacles
A pink anemonefish peers out from the tentacles of a big anemone in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, where WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold was part of an international team that […]
Read MoreEye in the Skies
A modified quadcopter drone gave WHOI researchers and colleagues a bird’s-eye view and computer-automated counts of a new “supercolony” of more than 1.5 million Adelie penguins in the Danger […]
Read MoreSafe Haven
An anemone fish finds refuge in its namesake location–an anemone. This pair were photographed in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), a place that has drawn attention from […]
Read MoreHiding in Plain Sight
Can you spot the pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus sp.)? (Hint: Its head is pointing back and to the left, with its left eye partly visible.) This little fellow, about a […]
Read MoreCelebrating World Oceans Day
Central American Beauty
A baby reef squid found its way into the nets of WHOI researchers as they worked in the waters around Belize to study the connectivity of reef ecosystems. Biologists and […]
Read MoreCorals Under Threat
A large school of bigeye trevally swim past a submarine carrying WHOI scientists descending in Cabu Pulmo National Park, home of the oldest of only three coral reefs on […]
Read MoreReservation Required?
Restoff Island in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea, is a biodiversity hotspot that is home to hundreds of coral reef fish species. It is also one of eight sites sampled […]
Read MoreSettling Behavior
Marine reserves promote coral reef sustainability by preventing overfishing and increasing fish abundance and diversity. But to be effective, they need to be sized right, and in a way […]
Read MoreAre Reefs Resilient?
Hannah Barkley, a recent graduate of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, presents her thesis research on coral reef health in the Rock Islands of Palau. Since 2011, Barkley has […]
Read MoreBack to School
A large school of bigeye trevally swam past a submarine carrying WHOI scientists descending in Cabu Pulmo National Park, home of the oldest of only three coral reefs on the […]
Read MoreHaven for seabirds
The small coral islands of the remote Phoenix Islands are important resting and nesting areas for millions of seabirds, some of them rare and endangered. Over time, seafaring Polynesians, […]
Read MoreThe Ear Bone’s Connected to the Fish Home
WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold holds a fish otolith—an ear bone—that can serve as a natural tag to reconstruct the history of temperatures and seawater chemistry wherever a fish […]
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