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Seals and Wild Horses on Sable Island, Nova Scotia

While East Coast seal populations have dramatically increased in recent years, a staggering proportion of Sable Island seals don’t make it to their first birthday. WHOI biologist Michelle Shero is looking into the influence of iron in seal mothers’ milk on pup survival rates.

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White Sharks, Gray Seals

White Sharks, Gray Seals

2013 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows and WHOI staff members pause for a photo following an afternoon of seal watching aboard the Monomoy Island Ferry. During the trip, biologists Andrea Bogomolni…

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2022 Year in Review

Re-live the best of 2022 with this montage showcasing just some of WHOI’s ocean science, technology, and engineering highlights. WHOI researchers are active in upwards of 800 projects around the world at any time, providing critical information about some of the most urgent challenges facing humanity and the planet we call home. As part of the WHOI community, we thank you for your dedication to our ocean, our future, and our planet. Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2023!

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Handle with Care

Handle with Care

The sea raven, is a common bottom-dweller in ocean waters off New England. WHOI postdoctoral investigator Andrea Bogomolni (pictured) and WHOI researcher Alex Bocconcelli encountered this one earlier this summer while doing…

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A Sustainable Collaboration

A Sustainable Collaboration

WHOI postdoctoral investigator Andrea Bogomolni removes winter skates (a fish related to sharks and rays) from a gillnet on a fishing boat off Cape Cod, Mass. These skates were caught…

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Squid on the Menu

Squid on the Menu

Loligo pealii, the ordinary squid, is a kind of floating buffet that feeds fish, birds, seals, dolphins, many whales, and even humans. Despite this, scientists know remarkably little about how…

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Changes Far Away

Changes Far Away

One of the most abundant zooplankton in Antarctic waters are Euphausia superba (pictured), commonly known as Antarctic krill. In the Southern Ocean, these two-inch-long, pink crustaceans are the main food…

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Science Gets Under the Skin

Science Gets Under the Skin

The term necropsy is used to describe an autopsy performed on a deceased, non-human animal. WHOI’s necropsy facility allows scientists to study the anatomy, physiology, diet, and health of animals…

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Seal Whisker Sensor

Seal Whisker Sensor

Heather Beem earned her Ph.D. in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography working biomimetics: using features observed in nature to inform the design of new technologies. She closely examined seal whiskers…

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Copy Cat

Copy Cat

Turtles, dolphins, and seals are masters at maneuvering in the water. So it’s no surprise that vehicle deisgners occasionally look to them for inspiration when trying to make new generations…

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Orca Rising

Orca Rising

Orcas (Orcinus orca), also called killer whales, hunt prey such as penguins and seals that spend some of their time out of the water. They are known to spy-hop—hold their…

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Feeding the Ocean

Feeding the Ocean

Krill are very small crustaceans living in oceans around the world that eat even smaller organisms called phytoplankton. Krill play a major role in the food chain because they provide food for…

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Artistic Sensibility

Artistic Sensibility

Falmouth High School art teacher Jane Baker and WHOI biologist Becky Gast took 52 art and English students to Provincetown this fall to do what generations of artists and writers…

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Look Behind You

Look Behind You

A REMUS 100 autonomous underwater vehicle picked up an unexpected follower during a 2013 expedition near Guadalupe Island off the northwest coast of Mexico. The vehicle was equipped with a…

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Chasing Great Whites

Chasing Great Whites

Engineer Amy Kukulya introduced the REMUS SharkCam at a public event in 2013 describing WHOI’s research on sharks and seals. he Discovery Channel commissioned the Oceanographic Systems Lab to develop…

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Eye Spy

Eye Spy

A Northwest Atlantic gray seal bobs in the water between Chatham and Monomoy Island at high tide in September 2013. In these waters, they feed primarily on small, bottom-dwelling fish…

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Predator or Prey?

Predator or Prey?

WHOI biologist Andrea Bogomolni spoke about some of Cape Cod’s most charismatic predators (and prey) during the WHOI public event White Sharks, Gray Seals on August 7, 2013. Bogomolni studies seals found off the…

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Tagging Sharks

Tagging Sharks

To reveal the hidden lives of sharks, scientists like Simon Thorrold in the WHOI Fish Ecology Laboratory are using Pop-up Satellite Archival Transmitting tags. The tags attach to sharks, recording…

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A Penetrating Task

A Penetrating Task

Research associate Alexi Shalapyonok, mechanic Brian Durante, and engineer Hugh Popenoe prepare to seal a pressure chamber they are using to test a penetrator that will become part of the…

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Break Time

Break Time

Seals like this one photographed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment (SIPEX-II) in Antarctica, depend on sea ice to survive. They hunt for food, such as fish and krill, under…

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Seal Sightings

Seal Sightings

People come from miles away to see the seals off the shores of Cape Cod, but the animals are creating some challenges for local fishermen. Increasing seal populations led to…

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Home Turf

Home Turf

Scientists who visit the Arctic sometimes see the region’s most famed inhabitants: polar bears. Photographer Chris Linder saw this mother and cub from the Swedish ice breaker Oden during a…

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