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Schematic illustration of ground water cycle
Water flowing through aquifers back to the ocean is part of Earths water cycle that people often overlook, said WHOI scientist Matt Charette of the Coastal Groundwater Geochemistry Lab, because…
Read MoreThe life cycle of Greenland’s meltwater lakes
Meltwater lakes pool on Greenland’s ice sheet each spring and summer, then drain through cracks to bedrock, and ultimately out to the ocean. these lakes could accelerate global sea level…
Read MoreA Krill’s Life Cycle
A KRILL’S LIFECYCLE—Krill start life as eggs that sink and hatch in spring. They develop through larval stages as they swim back to the surface, reaching the fourth (furcilia) stage…
Read MoreMonsoon circulation cycle
Used in Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 40. Image Of the Day caption: WHOI scientists are working in the Indian Ocean to gain new insights into forecasting monsoons,…
Read MoreOcean food web processes that drive carbon cycle
The figure above illustrates the ocean food web processes that drive the transformation and partitioning of carbon among various reservoirs. Dissolved inorganic carbon enters the ocean as CO2 which is…
Read MoreLife cycle of a scallop
Suspended in the water, floating in unseen hordes, shellfish larvae are transported by wind and tidal currents until they settle and grow into adults. But this critical stage in the…
Read MoreIllustration showing the carbon exchange cycle
In various forms, carbon is continuously exchanged between Earth’s atmosphere, and, and water—an essential cycle for life and regulating the planet’s climate. Atmospheric carbon dioxide readily dissolves in the ocean’s…
Read MoreIllustration depicting the formation cycle of piteraq winds
1) The trigger for piteraqs seems to be low-pressure systems, or cyclones, that tend to form frequently to the east and southeast of Greenland. Cyclonic winds from the northwest push…
Read MoreIllustration explaining the life cycle of eels
The life cycle of eels still holds many mysteries for scientists. Eels are believed to mate and lay their eggs in the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean but…
Read MoreWalking on Water
WHOI research assistant Kate Morkeski and MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Mallory Ringham navigate a temporary causeway in the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve during an exceptionally high “king tide.” Coastal wetlands…
Read MoreCalcium in the Carbon Cycle
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Sara Rosengard measures the amount of calcium in seawater samples using an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS). The amount of calcium helps Rosengard determine…
Read MoreCarbon Cycle in Action
Summer Student Fellow Jen Reeve (left) and WHOI marine chemist Amanda Spivak collect sediment samples from an experiment in Spivak’s flow-through seawater system (the white tanks behind them). With water…
Read MoreWater Everywhere?
In May 2012, WHOI convened a Morss Colloquium to examine the issue of Earth’s water cycle. Afterwards, a panel that included (left to right) Anthony Patt, International Institute for Applied…
Read MoreWater Flowing Underground
Water flowing through aquifers back to the ocean is part of Earth’s water cycle that people often overlook, said WHOI scientist Matt Charette of the Coastal Groundwater Geochemistry Lab, because…
Read MoreWater Water Everywhere
The summer sun never sets in the Arctic, but it did provide inspiring views for scientists working around-the-clock in the summer of 2002, during a month-long expedition in the Chukchi and…
Read MoreWater Day, Every Day
March 22 is World Water Day. In reality, it is hard to imagine a day on Earth without water. Water is the substance most associated with life on our planet.…
Read MoreBacteria that Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Chemist Mak Saito and colleagues recently reported that a marine bacterium recycles and reuses a scarce nutrient, iron. Crocosphaera watsonii disassembles iron-containing enzymes used by night and builds the iron…
Read MoreStanding under a mineral waterfall
Jill Van Tongeren (a graduate student at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory) stands, for scale, underneath stalactites and stalagmites of the mineral travertine, in Oman. Evelyn Mervine, WHOI Joint…
Read MoreJacques Yves Cousteau
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.
Read MoreHappy World Oceans Day
Today is World Oceans Day, a worldwide celebration of the ocean and the benefits it provides to everyone on our blue planet. It helps regulate our climate and our water cycle, supplies…
Read MoreSPURing a New View of Salinity
Researchers on the 2014 SPURS expedition aboard the research vessel Knorr (far right) release an autonomous glider from a small boat on a mission to study salinity and micro-scale mixing…
Read MoreRaindrops on the Ocean
Most of the surface of Earth is covered by ocean, so it follows that most of the rain falling on the planet falls on the ocean. That rain, in turn,…
Read MoreMeasuring Salty Seas
WHOI senior engineering assistant Ben Pietro oversees a deployment of yellow “hardhats” on the R/V Revelle during a 2016 expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, where some of the highest rainfall rates…
Read MoreRainfall Prediction
New research on the global water cycle by WHOI scientists Laifang Li, Ray Schmitt, and Caroline Ummenhofer have found links between saltier regions in the Atlantic Ocean in the spring…
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