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USS Arizona provides blueprint for addressing oil leakage at thousands of WWII shipwrecks

The findings underscore the USS Arizona’s dual role as a solemn memorial and a “living laboratory.”

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Data loggers deployed at hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise record temperature of vent fluids every ten minutes for up to a year. (Photo courtesy of Photo courtesy of Jill McDermott, Lehigh Univ.; WHOI, NDSF, Alvin Team; Funder: National Science Foundation. © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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The Flag of the United States of America over the site of the USS Arizona Memorial. The findings underscore the USS Arizona’s dual role as a solemn memorial and a “living laboratory.” (Photo by Brett Seymour, NPS Submerged Resources Center)
WHOI biologist Carolyn Tepolt surrounded by Atlantic mud crabs (<em>Dyspanopeus sayi</em>). (Graphic by Daniel Hentz, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Photo by Elise Hugus, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Scientists followed the movements of big-scale pomfret by fitting them with satellite-based tracking tags and releasing them back to the ocean. (Photo courtesy: Danny Mears)
Expedition 501 members look down from the Liftboat Robert platform, to the approaching Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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R/V <em>Knorr</em> returned to Woods Hole on September 9, 1985, after discovering the wreck of RMS <em>Titanic</em>. (Photo courtesy of WHOI Archives)
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Surface-dwelling zooplankton were collected in the summer of 2017 during the R/V ISABU at night in a transect starting from the East China Sea to the Bay of Bengal. (Photo courtesy: Korean Institute of Ocean Science &amp; Technology)
WHOI senior scientist Dennis McGillicuddy overlaying an aerial photo of Peanut Island in Florida. (Portrait by Daniel Hentz, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Background image by Maxime Doré, Unsplash)
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The Great Ziggurat of Ur dedicated to the Moon god. Ziggurats were massive structure
typical for Mesopotamia. Sumerians believed that the gods lived in the temple at the top of
the ziggurats. (Photo credits: Reed Goodman, Clemson University)
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Port side of the <em>Titanic</em> bow, the two capstans and the port and starboard anchor chains are visible. (©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Jennifer Johnson tests acoustic technology from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution dock. (Photo by Scott Loranger)
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