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Ocean in Motion

Winter 2024
( Vol. 59 No.. 2 )

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Our Ocean. Our Planet. Our Future.

Go with the flow

Mike Singleton, relief captain, R/V Neil Armstrong describes the intricate dance of navigating ocean currents during scientific expeditions

A gift for ocean research

Boater and oceanography enthusiast Steven Grossman supports innovative WHOI projects with $10 million donation

Nature's Language

Using applied math (and chalk) to understand the dynamic ocean

Navigating new waters

The engineering team at the Ocean Observatories Initiative overcomes the hurdles of deploying the coastal pioneer array at a new site

Ocean in Motion

How the ocean’s complex and chaotic physics defines life on our planet

Saving Tico

A manatee’s odyssey and the role of currents in marine mammal conservation

Tracking big fish at fine scales

Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution track how shortbill spearfish take advantage of local ocean currents when foraging.

An Oceanographer's Atlas

WHOI physical oceanographer Glen Gawarkiewicz has a collection of more than 25 original antique maps, some dating as far back as 1535.

The long journey of Bottle No. 71645

Drift bottle released in 1968 to study ocean currents found on Maine beach

The ocean currents behind Brazil’s pollution problem

South America's largest country reckons with both history and ocean currents in a recent spree of pollution

An open polar sea?

The once-romanticized notion of an ice-free Arctic comes full circle

Making sense of a mystery fish

Scientists tackle long-standing questions about the elusive American eel

What’s happening with AMOC?

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