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A new study reveals how oxygen first reached Earth’s oceans

Researchers use vanadium isotopes to track the rise of oxygen in ancient seas

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Impacts from flooding that occurred in Falmouth, Massachusetts on December 23, 2022. (Photo by Chris Piecuch)
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Close-up view of bacterial communities thriving at the vent site. The distance between the two green laser points is 9 cm, providing a scale for the dense microbial structures visible on the seafloor. (Photo by EXTREME25)
WHOI reef solutions field team
This year marks the fourth appearance of the Ocean Pavilion in the Blue Zone of a UN Climate Conference of the Parties. (Photo courtesy of the Ocean Pavilion)
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Between 2016 and 2024, researchers collected 103 respiratory samples from 85 North Atlantic right whales using drones. Drones provide a stable, quiet platform, minimizing stress and disturbance to the animal. (Photo courtesy NEAq/WHOI, NMFS/NOAA Permit #21371)
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WHOI marine ecologist Camrin Braun
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Allan Hills, 2022-2023. (Photo by Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX)
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Bruce Strickrott in Alvin
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Alvin in the WHOI High Bay
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