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As the ocean warms, a science writer looks for coral solutions

Scientist-turned-author Juli Berwald highlights conservation projects to restore coral reefs

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A shifting seabed

Decades of discovery along a deep-sea volcanic mountain range

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WHOI joins Manresa Wilds Project to help restore part of Connecticut’s coastline

Development of a new coastal green space and public park opens up access to ocean science in Long Island Sound

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How shipwrecks helped a cold-water anemone move south

Researchers find fluffy anemones spreading south via shipwrecks, revealing how artificial reefs and ocean currents connect marine habitats

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Recipe: Roasted peppers with smoked mackerel, mace, and mint

This seafood recipe by chef and author Barton Seaver is a great introduction to sustainable seafood

Emily Peacock Ocean life

Sampling Gulf Stream plankton, one teaspoon at a time

Three questions with marine research technician Emily Peacock

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These seabirds fly toward cyclones, not away from them

New GPS tracking on petrels reveals a surprising survival strategy hidden in the eye of the storm

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Are big spills the main source of ocean oil?

Evidence shows that smaller leaks on land contribute far more oil to our oceans

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Reclaiming knowledge from the sea

WHOI’s Jordan Kennedy draws on Indigenous knowledge, engineering, and observation to rethink how we study and restore coastal landscapes

Sunita Williams

3 questions with a former NASA astronaut

WHOI Corporation Member Sunita Williams discusses space exploration, ocean science, and environmental stewardship

Cargo ships and tankers sitting at anchor outside a busy commercial port Ocean life

Ships in the Strait of Hormuz are becoming invasive species breeding grounds

Beneath the waterline of every ship stalled in the Persian Gulf, a thriving underwater city takes shape—barnacles, algae, mussels, sea squirts. Some of those hitchhikers could reach coastlines they’d never find on their own.

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Is the ocean carbon sink at risk of faltering?

WHOI scientists explain how the ocean mitigates climate change—and could be compromised by it

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3 questions with Cam Braun

Marine biologist Camrin Braun explains why the world’s largest fish visit waters off Cape Cod—and what their epic migrations reveal about a changing ocean

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Lux in abyssum

Artist Lori Hepner transforms seafloor data into ethereal light paintings

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Is underwater noise from construction affecting the American Lobster?

WHOI’s Sensory Ecology Lab investigates whether an industrialized soundscape impacts the health of a New England icon

Bosun Oscar Sisson (left) and WHOI engineers Sean Kelley, Mike Skowronski, and Isaac Vandor deploy the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry  Ocean tech

Exploring Atlantic seeps

AUV Sentry leads the way in mapping and monitoring methane bubbling from the seafloor

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A once-in-a-generation dive into polar history

40 years after helping reveal the Titanic, Alvin returns to the North Atlantic to document two other legendary shipwrecks

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Eyes on the deep

How ocean imaging is accelerating the pace of deep-sea discovery

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Campaign for Our Ocean Planet

WHOI launches an audacious fundraising effort for ocean science

Plastic waste entangled beneath the Mediterranean's surface, highlighting marine pollution.

Deep-sea dustbins

The marine debris concentrating in the Northwest Atlantic’s underwater canyons

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Squishy survivor

How the snailfish survives the ocean’s most extreme pressures

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Answers from the abyss

How new discoveries in the deep could change life at the surface

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A hadal zone mystery solved

An upside-down swimming isopod shows how tightly we are connected to the deep ocean

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A mother seal dives

Follow a Weddell seal as her body adapts to foraging in deep, frigid waters

Titanic sinking with mummy's tomb Ocean & human lives

A mummy, a myth, and the Titanic

A 1986 handwritten letter to Bob Ballard revisits one of the Titanic disaster’s strangest myths

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Turning motion into power: Wave energy converters for sustainable ocean monitoring

In the rapidly evolving world of ocean technology, wave energy is emerging as a promising…

Ocean life

The world’s most abundant fish once thrived in an extreme climate

Fossilized teeth show bristlemouth fish evolved during one of the ocean’s hottest periods

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How a cargo ship is tracking hidden ocean life in the Atlantic

With funding support from CMA CGM, ocean observations aboard Bermuda Container Line’s M/V Oleander now include a window into microscopic life

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Alvin vs. the swordfish

During a 1967 dive off Florida, a startled swordfish rammed the famed submersible Alvin—lodging its sword in the hull and forcing the crew to abort the mission

The entrance to Room 71. (Photo by Daniel Hentz, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Ocean tech

Inside Room 71: WHOI history in seven artifacts

Some of the technology, art, and gifts that tell the story of the institution’s early days

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How the ocean works

A scientist’s quest to find Earth’s oldest ice

After recovering ice that dates back 6 million years, Sarah Shackleton hopes to dig deeper into Earth’s history from a remote Antarctic moraine

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Rising tides, resilient spirits

As surrounding seas surge, a coastal village prepares for what lies ahead

WHOI biologist Laela Sayigh attaches a suction-cup hydrophone to a dolphin in Sarasota Bay Ocean & human lives

Whistle! Chirp! Squeak! What does it mean?

Avatar Alliance Foundation donation helps WHOI researcher decode dolphin communication

Climate & weather

We can’t do this alone

For marine chemist Adam Subhas, ocean-climate solutions don’t happen without community

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Behind the blast

The marine superintendent who blew up Jaws

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How WHOI helped win World War II

Key innovations that cemented ocean science’s role in national defense

Ghana Ocean & human lives

Life at the margins

Scientists investigate the connections between Ghana’s land, air, sea and blue economy through the Ocean Margins Initiative

Elizabeth Spiers How the ocean works

Grits, storms, and cosmic patience

As storms stall liftoff, Europa Clipper Mission Team member Elizabeth Spiers patiently awaits the biggest mission of her life

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Seeding the future

New WHOI tech lends a hand to kelp farmers

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New underwater vehicles in development at WHOI

New vehicles will be modeled after WHOI’s iconic remotely operated vehicle, Jason

Ocean tech

Learning to see through cloudy waters

How MIT-WHOI student Amy Phung is helping robots accomplish dangerous tasks in murky waters

angler fish Ocean life

A rare black seadevil anglerfish sees the light

A viral video shows a denizen of the ocean’s twilight zone making an unusual trip to the surface

Sabrina Imbler Ocean & human lives

From surface to self

A writer’s journey through science and story

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