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Ridge Crest Processes
Ridge Crest processes. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreRidge Microbial Processes
Ridge Microbial processes. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreRight whale detection mooring operation
Hydrophones on mooring lines could detect whale sounds but frequently it is too noisy. The problem was that in often violent seas, surface buoys moved up and down, pulling the…
Read MoreRopeless fishing technology to release a trap line entangling a right whale
WHOI engineers have developed a patent-pending ropeless technology that uses an acoustic signal to release a line from a trap. Engineers have completed onshore testing of the prototype hardware with…
Read MoreSatellite image showing Pinocchio’s Nose warm water intrusion along the Shelf
In 2014, satellite imagery revealed an elongated body of warm Gulf Stream water pushing onto the edge of New England’s continental shelf toward the southwest. Scientists have seen similiar phenomena…
Read MoreScale depicting the concentration of pH and examples of solutions
The pH scale, shown here, indicates the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+) in a liquid. Above pH7, a fluid is alkaline; below 7, it is acidic. Seawater is slightly alkaline,…
Read MoreScallop Life Cycle being affected by ocean acidification
Atlantic sea scallops are a $500 million annual industry, but WHOI scientists believe they may be in danger. A new model developed by WHOI researcher Jennie Rheuban suggests that as…
Read MoreSchematic 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 MoreMethods for data collection under and on the world’s oceans
Methods for data collection under and on the world’s oceans. (Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreMicrobial “Trojan horses” stages
Ingested, but not digested. Stages: 1) A unicellular organism, or protist, uses hairlike cilia to push assorted bacteria into its oral groove. Ingested bacteria are collected in food vacuoles— specialized…
Read MoreMicrobial Life Tree
A COMPLEX TREE OF LIFE—Microbes are living archives of Earth’s evolutionary history. The discovery of a great variety of deep-sea microorganisms (using diverse metabolic strategies to live in diverse habitats)…
Read MoreMicroplastics breaking down in different areas of the environment
Currently, little is known about when and where larger plastics break down in the environment to form microplastics. A common perception is that most of the fragmentation occurs in the…
Read MoreMicroplastics in the Food Chain illustration
Plastics that get into the ocean often degrade into microplastics that are ingested by fish and shellfish and can go up the food chain to be ingested by humans. (Illustration…
Read MoreMid-Ocean Ridges: Magnetics and Polarity, featuring seafloor spreading
How Fast is the Mid-Ocean Ridge Spreading? (Illustration by Natalie Renier, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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 MoreMonsoon season rain cycle
Used in Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 41. (Illustration by Gualitiero Spiro Jaeger, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreMultibeam sonar image of Galápagos seamounts
Multibeam sonar aboard the research vessel Alucia provided 1-meter-per-pixel resolution of seafloor bathymetry (bottom), compared with 800-meter-per-pixel resolution of the same area provided by satellite altimetry data (top) The higher…
Read MoreMultifrequency sonar image of underwater topography of an iceberg
This colorful image represents underwater topography of an iceberg in Greenland’s Sermilik Fjord. It was created using data from multifrequency sonar during the MIMEX (Mapping Iceberg Melting EXperiment) expedition in…
Read MoreNitrogen cycle, with imbedded callouts, captions
Chemical detectives follow nitrogen’s elusive and essential trail in the ocean (Illustration by Katherine S. Joyce, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreNorth Atlantic ocean circulation shown on a world globe
The North Atlantic is a key juncture in the world ocean circulation system that has impacts on our climate. The Gulf Stream carries warm, salty water to the Labrador Sea…
Read MoreNorth Atlantic ocean currents circulation map
One of the “pumps” that helps drive the ocean’s global circulation suddenly switched on again last winter for the first time this decade. The “pump” is in the western North…
Read MoreNorth Atlantic Oscillation positive and negative stages
North Atlantic Oscillation. (Illustration by Jack Cook, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreOcean and atmospheric interaction in the North Atlantic Ocean
Ocean and atmospheric interaction in the North Atlantic Ocean. (Illustration by Jack Cook and Fritz Heide, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreOcean eddies transporting plankton throughout the water column
Plankton in the ocean can help reduce the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide building up in our atmosphere. Like plants, they use carbon dioxide to grow and are eaten by…
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