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Three things you may not know about sea level rise
Since the turn of the 20th century, seas have risen six to eight inches globally. New technologies, along with a better understanding of how the oceans, ice sheets, and other components of climate interact, have helped scientists identify the factors that contribute to sea level rise.
Read MoreOcean Encounters: Rising Seas Resilient Coasts
Join us for a conversation about the drivers and consequences of rising sea levels—and adaptation strategies to protect lives and livelihoods by making our coastlines and infrastructure more resilient.
Read MoreRivers and Changing Seas
Sea level in coastal areas can be affected by a number of factors: tides, winds, waves, and even barometric pressure. New research led by WHOI physical oceanographer Chris […]
Read MoreLand, Sea, and Air
The increased flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica has tripled the contribution of continental ice sheets to global sea level rise over the last 20 years. Since 2008, […]
Read MoreA Sea Change
WHOI engineer Will Ostrom deploys a mooring in Sermilik Fjord in southeastern Greenland in September, 2012. Instruments on the mooring will record water temperature, salinity, and current speed and direction […]
Read MoreLobster surprise
Post-doc Justin Ries—now at UNC—along with WHOI scientists Anne Cohen and Dan McCorkle grew shell-building ocean animals in water under air containing different levels of carbon dioxide, a […]
Read MoreWhere land and sea meet
In 2003 the Woods Hole Sea Grant worked with a group of volunteers who performed beach profile surveys at Cold Storage Beach, East Dennis, MA to assess how the […]
Read MoreResilient Woods Hole Climate Walking Tour
The Resilient Woods Hole Climate Walking Trail app takes users on a self-guided tour of Woods Hole’s most vulnerable areas. You can download the free app through the App Store or Google Play.
Read MoreBoston Dance Theater performs SURGE at Ocean Encounters
Watch Boston Dance Theater (BDT) perform their current art and science project called SURGE which is an ongoing collaboration between BDT and WHOI Senior Scientist, Dr. Larry J. Pratt. SURGE addresses current climate trends through the lens of sea-level rise and the role that art and science play in creating a sustainable future. This performance took place during WHOI’s 2020 Ocean Encounters finale episode entitled Our Enchanted Ocean and was recorded on October 28, 2020.
Read MoreRising Tides: preparing for the future
Like many coastal communities, Woods Hole, located on Cape Cod, faces an uncertain future. Rising sea level and the potential for increased frequency and intensity of storms present significant long-term threats. Woods Hole is home to world-leading marine science institutions performing critical research from shore-based facilities that enable access to the sea and yet, ironically, are vulnerable to the same climate change impacts that are the subject of study.
Read MoreDrilling Down
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Matthew Osman (left) and U.S. Ice Drilling Program driller Mike Waszkiewicz move an ice core barrel into place during a storm in West Greenland. Osman […]
Read MoreScientific Assembly Line
It took a village of researchers to process a tube of sediments cored from Great Barnstable Salt Marsh on Cape Cod. Working in WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak‘s lab are, […]
Read MoreThe Once and Future Marsh
WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak (center) collects plant and sediment samples in Barstable Great Marsh with the help of research assistant Kelsey Gosselin (left) and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student […]
Read MoreDisappearing Ponds
WHOI biogeochemist Amanda Spivak samples plant matter in the remnants of a small pond in Great Marsh in Barnstable, Mass. In the 1930s, the Cape Cod Mosquito Control […]
Read MoreCoral Investigators
Rising Tides
Sea level rise is accelerating as warming temperatures cause ice to melt and ocean water to expand. Under many scenarios, sea level rise is expected to remain under three […]
Read MoreOn the Rocks
Ice floes in Iceland’s Jökulsárlón lagoon come from Breiðamerkurjökull (visible in the background), one of the glaciers draining the third largest ice cap in the world. Iceland was the destination […]
Read MoreHidden Battles
These images, which are CT scans similar to those taken at hospitals of the human body, provide a detailed look inside coral skeletons. The holes were made by bioeroders, […]
Read MoreMonitoring the Ice
Risk Assessment
A WHOI team led by research assistant Richard Sullivan and including guest student Charlotte Wiman (left) and research assistant Mollie McDowell prepares to survey waters off the island of Ebadon in […]
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