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WHOI selected by NASA to investigate ocean worlds and their organic carbon cycles

The Investigating Ocean Worlds project will seek to improve the analysis of data related to carbon-rich molecules that could be an indicator of biological activity.

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André Corrêa do Lago, the President of COP30, addresses the closing plenary on the final day of negotiations in Belém. Photo by Antonio Scorza/COP30
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)
Heidi Sosik
Brian Skerry
A neighborhood in Sarasota 
experiences flooding after Hurricane Debby passed through in 2024. (Photo by Bilanol, iStock)
blue straws
Carl Hartsfield
WHOI marine ecologist Camrin Braun
underwater coral
Whale detection camera
Allan Hills, 2022-2023. (Photo by Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX)
(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Campaign for Our Ocean Planet
Bruce Strickrott in Alvin
COP 30
Alvin in the WHOI High Bay
from Tuna
ship
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