Oceanus Online Archive

Eel Photo

Making sense of a mystery fish

Scientists tackle long-standing questions about the elusive American eel

emperor penguins and ECHO

Up close and personal

Ocean robots work alongside marine animals to study their behavior

Sustainable Ocean

As illegal fishing rages on, is there any hope on the horizon?

WHOI economist Yaqin Liu weighs in on the scourge of illegal fishing and what can be done to catch offenders

Climate & Weather

What’s happening with AMOC?

Scientists discuss the state of the Atlantic Ocean’s ‘conveyor belt’

Climate & Weather

Heatwave Photo

Record-level heat is predicted for the months, and years, ahead. Why is this happening?

Ongoing climate change and a naturally-occurring El Niño event overlap to bring the heat

How the Ocean Works

tonga gil composite

How did the ocean remain so quiet during Tonga’s eruption?

Underwater acoustics expert Gil Averbuch teases apart a mystery

Ocean & Human Lives

Dancing with Data

Diving into the ocean-themed movements of the Boston Ballet’s “La Mer”

Four wins worth recognizing this World Ocean Month

Amid a sea of environmental issues, these four victories spark hope for the ocean’s future

Autonomous robot CUREE

Robots to the Rescue

How the next generation of ocean robots will help solve the planet’s most pressing problems

group chat

Group Chat

Underwater robots communicate in text-like fashion off the coast of Oahu

workbench

Technology Hatchery

The latest robotics projects happening inside the George and Wendy David Center for Ocean Innovation

iologists Heidi Sosik (left) and Joel Llopiz (right) examine shadowgraph images of plankton

AI in the Ocean Twilight Zone

Deep Learning techniques are revealing new secrets about the mesopelagic

Amy Phung

Automating Exploration

For MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Amy Phung, virtual reality and robotics are a natural pairing for ocean exploration

ABE

A throwback to ABE

The OG autonomous seafloor robot

right whale in NY Harbor

Keeping an ear out for whales

Scientists look to safeguard the mammals with robotic buoys in the New York Bight

Ocean & Human Lives

Are warming Alaskan Arctic waters a new toxic algal hotspot?

WHOI researchers warn Arctic communities following detection of a harmful bloom

hard wired to love

Hardwired to love

Ocean engineers discuss our emotional connection with robots

Climate & Weather

Brian Halligan

Propelling a new wave of ocean-climate solutions

WHOI researchers get a boost from climate-tech fund Propeller

Climate & Weather

underwater

Solving climate challenges, one innovation at a time

WHOI researchers report progress on projects funded by the Ocean Climate Innovation Accelerator

Climate & Weather

Paddling Illustration

Paddling an angry, ancient ocean

If ancient Beringians got to the Americas by boat, it couldn’t have been easy

Can Sound Help Save Coral Reefs?

WHOI scientists use sound to attract larval corals that could help rebuild reef ecosystems

Ocean & Human Lives

How is human health impacted by marine plastics?

WHOI biologist Mark Hahn discusses a recent global plastics study

Sustainable Ocean

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey visits WHOI

Healey-Driscoll administration “leans in” on climate, Blue Economy research at WHOI

How the Ocean Works

Ferromanganese crusts draping rocks

With deep-sea mining, do microbes stand a chance?

Scouring the seafloor for precious metals could put marine microbial communities and their ecosystem functions at risk