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Living on the edge

Living on the edge

Science faces off with an increasingly volatile coast

Accessible Oceans

Making marine science available to the visually-impaired

‘High-octane’ hurricane fuel swirls in the Gulf of Mexico

Researchers deploy an arsenal of underwater floats to monitor the Loop Current—one of the Atlantic Ocean’s fastest and warmest currents—to collect critical data for hurricane forecasting.

Hidden Currents in the Gulf of Mexico

Hidden Currents in the Gulf of Mexico

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill five years ago gave new impetus to investigating unknown subsurface currents deep within the Gulf of Mexico.

WHOI Engineer Turns Author

WHOI Engineer Turns Author

Floats Reveal Unknown Ocean Pathways

Floats Reveal Unknown Ocean Pathways

Oceanographers have long known that the image they used to portray the oceans’ global circulation—called the Ocean Conveyor—was an oversimplification. It’s useful, but akin to describing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony as a catchy tune.

The upper part […]

OceanInsights for the Blind

OceanInsights for the Blind

WHOI physical oceanographer Amy Bower brought along a few extraordinary passengers when she set out to the Labrador Sea aboard the research vessel Knorr in September: Kate Fraser, a science teacher at the Perkins School […]

Submerged Autonomous Launch Platforms

Submerged Autonomous Launch Platforms

Amy Bower wanted to investigate an elusive and unpredictable phenomenon in a remote ocean. Off the west coast of Greenland, large, spinning rings of warm water, called eddies, occasionally form in the ocean, like dust […]

A Warm Eddy Swirling in the Cold Labrador Sea

A Warm Eddy Swirling in the Cold Labrador Sea

Amy Bower is traveling to the Labrador Sea to install a mooring with novel carousels that will autonomously release profiling floats into passing warm eddies. She has also forged an innovative outreach partnership with the Perkins School for the Blind, including an expedition Web sight for students with visual impairments.