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Ocean Encounters: Geology Rocks!
Join us as we talk with three people with very different jobs—all in geology—about how they got into the field and where their careers are taking them.
Read MoreSpecial Guest
A very special guest visited the research vessel Atlantis during a port call in San Diego in December. Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Walter Munk (seated) received a personal tour…
Read MoreTsunami Warning System
Research engineer Lee Freitag and colleagues in the WHOI Acoustic Communications Group are developing a longe-range underwater sound-singalling system to warn of possible tsunamis. When a pressure sensor detects a…
Read MoreTragedy Then and Now
Namiwake Shrine in the city of Sendai stands in testament to the forces that have shaped the landscape, culture, and history of Japan. The shrine, whose name means “parted wave,”…
Read MoreCape-Able Partners
A new grant from The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation will help WHOI fund a three-year collaboration with Cape Abilities—a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding good jobs for disabled…
Read MoreMaking Waves
WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (right) with summer student Yen Joe Tan observe waves created during a tsunami experiment at Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass. Lin and colleagues have studied earthquakes…
Read MoreClose-up
In September 2013 WHOI marine chemist Ken Buesseler traveled with a group of Japanese colleagues to the northeastern coast of Japan within one kilometer (one-half mile) of the damaged nuclear…
Read MoreRing of Fire
The Pacific “Ring of Fire” produces some of the most destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions on Earth, including the 2011 Japan mega-quake and tsunami. WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (middle)…
Read MoreCore Knowledge
During a recent trip to Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, WHOI guest student Chris Maio assisted in the collection of sediment cores from the Beluga Slough salt marsh. The trip was funded…
Read MoreMaking Waves
WHOI geophysicist Jian Lin (right) with summer student Yen Joe Tan observe waves created during a tsunami experiment at Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass. Lin and colleagues have studied earthquakes…
Read MoreDeepest Ocean
Ocean trenches, such as the Kermadec (shown here) near New Zealand, exist where one of Earth’s tectonic plates is sinking and sliding beneath another. This process, referred to as plate…
Read MoreInto their Work
In July, MIT/WHOI Joint Program students joined MIT students and WHOI staff for a walked through a lava tube, a natural tunnel that forms under volcanoes, in Hawai’i Volcanoes National…
Read MoreOne Last Check
Marine chemist Ken Buesseler (left) and University of Hawaii technician Paul Balch make a final inspection of a rosette sampler prior to deploying the instrument. Buesseler organized the cruise aboard…
Read MoreAnatomy of a Tsunami
While tsunamis can neither be prevented nor precisely predicted, people educated about particular warning signs can save their own lives and the lives of others. Learn more about tsunamis and…
Read MoreCivic Duty
WHOI geologist Rob Evans (left) testifies before the Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans, of the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2005. Each year, dozens of WHOI…
Read MoreYellow Alert
On May 6, 2007, WHOI researchers and technicians deployed the Real Time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) off the coast of Grenada. RTOSS is part of a project to develop new…
Read MoreEarthquake Evidence
WHOI geologist Jian Lin studies a sample of seafloor collected near the site of the December 2004 earthquake off the island of Sumatra that resulted in a devastating tsunami in…
Read MorePrimed for Catastrophic Collapse
Rising 1,000 meters (3,300 feet) above the Samoan island of Ta’u, Mount Lata is an active volcano. One of its sides collapsed in landslides that left a steep escarpment primed…
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