Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

How Do I Love Thee?

To call his mate, a male Adélie penguin uses a tried-and-true formula: flap flippers, tilt head to sky, then cut loose with a braying screech of a love song. It’s called an ecstatic call, and among penguins, it’s contagious. “One starts, and pretty soon everyone’s doing it,” said ecologist David Ainley. Ainley, who studies Adélie colonies in Antarctica, worked with a reporting team from WHOI during a 2007 Polar Discovery expedition at Cape Royds on Ross Island. (Note that this penguin is multi-tasking: while calling, he is also incubating an egg.) (Photo by Chris Linder, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

One Penguin Not Enough? Check out this short video featuring Stephanie Jenvouvrier's recent study of Terre Adélie colonies.

Scientists Link Eddies to Large North Atlantic Plankton Blooms

Amala Mahadevan is the lead author of a paper in Science that reports evidence of a new trigger for North Atlantic phytoplankton blooms: eddies that swirl across the surface layer of the ocean. 

Aug. 8: Ocean's Acid Test

The ocean is becoming more acidic and putting many marine organisms at risk. Join WHOI scientists in Redfield Auditorium on Aug. 8, 6-9 p.m., to learn more about how they are studying this complex challenge to the ocean.

Woods Hole Film Festival

Project Shiphunt, a documentary that features the WHOI Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab helping high school students locate and study a sunken ship, will be screened at 2 p.m. on Aug. 4. Meet lab members at an ice cream reception after the screening.

Alvin's New Sphere Arrives in Woods Hole; Assembly Begins

In June Alvin's new personnel sphere passed its pressure tests and made its way to Woods Hole. Engineers are now assembling the sub with improved deep-ocean capabilities.

Dolphins Appear To Do Nonlinear Mathemetics

Marine Biologist Laela Sayigh discusses why math skills would be important to dolphins as they track food sources in the wild.

Arctic Explorers
PRI's Living on Earth

Whale Skull May Provide Missing Link
Boston Globe

Biogeochemistry: The Great Iron Dump
Nature

Fungus Makes Manganese Manage Mine Mess
Scientific American

Symbiosis in the Deep Sea

Examining the gill chambers of shrimp living near seafloor vents, scientists discovered a host of different kinds of microbes living there.

Support TeamWHOI

The Falmouth Road Race is August 12, and  TeamWHOI members need your support as they run for research. Meet the team and help them meet their fundraising goals! Go TeamWHOI!