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The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Sentry

January 9, 2006

WHOI’s free-swimming robot Sentry completed its 500th dive on October 16, 2018. The autonomous underwater vehicle has used its sonar systems to help scientists map the seafloor, track the Deepwater…

The Ocean Conveyor

A global system of currents, often called the Ocean Conveyor, carries warm surface waters from the tropics northward. At high latitudes, the waters cool, releasing heat to the atmosphere and…

A Shelfbreak Observatory for Coastal Oceanography

January 1, 2006

Originally published online January 1, 2006

Arctic Ice

November 28, 2005

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that, over the past three decades, the extent of Arctic sea ice (the area of the Arctic Ocean with at…

Lights, camera, action at the Juan de Fuca Ridge

November 23, 2005

The deep-sea light post was used in tandem with a high-definition video camera from the University of Washington to capture images of octopi, tubeworms, crabs, and super-heated fluids flowing from…

If Too Much Fresh Water Enters the North Atlantic

January 6, 2005

Seeing Red in New England Waters

January 1, 2005

A Mess of Physics Near the Shore

November 30, 2004

Sandbars can protect or endanger the face of the beach. By Britt Raubenheimer :: Originally published online October 4, 2004

Strong winds blowing along certain coasts can promote a phenomenon known as coastal upwelling. The waters off California, Peru, and western Africa where upwelling provides abundant nutrients include some of…