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Lessons from a lifetime of exploration

Award-winning ocean photographer Brian Skerry shares insights from a career spent around ocean life and science

How an MIT-WHOI student used Google Earth to uncover a river–coral reef connection

Climate & Weather How an MIT-WHOI student used Google Earth to uncover a…

WHOI reef solutions field team Ocean Life

Hidden giant

An expedition to the world’s largest coral colony

Heidi Sosik Ocean Life

The little big picture

WHOI senior biologist Heidi Sosik on the critical need for long-term ocean datasets

Climate & Weather

The ocean weather nexus, explained

The vital role of ocean observations in extreme weather forecasting

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Breaking down plastics together

Through a surprising and successful partnership, WHOI and Eastman scientists are reinventing what we throw away

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Three questions with Carl Hartsfield

Captain Hartsfield, USN retired, discusses the role ocean science plays in our national defense

WHOI marine ecologist Camrin Braun

Hooked on change

Charting a new course for fisheries in a warming world

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Ocean Life

Reef RX

Using human health protocols to find and aid ailing reefs

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Ocean Tech

Whale aware!

New tech and industry partnerships help ships steer clear

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Music for the Ocean

Immersive classical performances to spark global concern for the ocean

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Breakthroughs below the surface

How ocean science is reshaping our world

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The Ocean (Re)Imagined

How expanding our view of the ocean can unlock new possibilities for life

Ocean Life

Body snatchers are on the hunt for mud crabs

WHOI biologist Carolyn Tepolt discusses the biological arms race between a parasite and its host

Ocean Tech

A polar stethoscope

Could the sounds of Antarctica’s ice be a new bellwether for ecosystem health in the South Pole?

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Secrets from the blue mud

Microbes survive—and thrive—in caustic fluids venting from the seafloor

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Deep-sea musings

Roboticist Gwyneth Packard on the need for ocean exploration today

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Top 5 ocean hitchhikers

As humans traveled and traded across the globe, they became unwitting taxis to marine colonizers

Ostrander Climate & Weather

Fires, floods, and forgotten places

Finding home with author Madeline Ostrander

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Following the Polar Code


Crew of R/V Neil Armstrong renew their commitment to Arctic science with advanced polar training


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Harnessing the ocean to power transportation

WHOI scientists are part of a team working to turn seaweed into biofuel

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Sustainable Ocean

Casting a wider net

The future of a time-honored fishing tradition in Vietnam, through the eyes of award-winning photographer Thien Nguyen Noc

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Gold mining’s toxic legacy

Mercury pollution in Colombia’s Amazon threatens the Indigenous way of life

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How do you solve a problem like Sargassum?

An important yet prolific seaweed with massive blooms worries scientists

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Ancient seas, future insights

WHOI scientists study the paleo record to understand how the ocean will look in a warmer climate

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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

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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Ocean Tech

How WHOI helped win World War II

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

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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

A Rare Glimpse Into the Ocean's Crust How the Ocean Works

A Rare Glimpse Into the Ocean’s Crust

About one and a half million years ago, a great hidden piece of the ocean’s…

What Other Tales Can Coral Skeletons Tell? Ocean Life

What Other Tales Can Coral Skeletons Tell?

In 2003, we traveled by ship to the New England Seamounts—a chain of extinct, undersea…

The Coral-Climate Connection Climate & Weather

The Coral-Climate Connection

Are the climate changes we perceive today just part of the Earth system’s natural variability,…

Students Visit the Deep-sea Robot They Named Ocean Tech

Students Visit the Deep-sea Robot They Named

Seven students from a California high school took a field trip to the Woods Hole…

Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Ocean & Human Lives

Lessons from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will convene two special conferences this fall to learn from the…

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People Around WHOI

WHOI Creates Office to Encourage Applied Oceanography

WHOI Creates Office to Encourage Applied Oceanography

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has established a new Office for Applied Oceanography to foster applied…

WHOI Scientists Provide Congressional Testimony Ocean Life

WHOI Scientists Provide Congressional Testimony

Susan Humphris, chair of the Geology and Geophysics Department, testified May 4, 2006,  before the…

Engineers Honored for Pioneering Undersea Robot Ocean & Human Lives

Engineers Honored for Pioneering Undersea Robot

The engineering team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that built the first fiber-optically cabled deep-sea…

Listening for Telltale Echoes from Fish Ocean Tech

Listening for Telltale Echoes from Fish

In the 1970s, scientists happened upon a curious phenomenon about sound waves in the ocean…

WHOI Around the World

WHOI Around the World

Map of WHOI Research Around the World

On the Trail of Microbes that Cause Seafood Poisoning... Ocean Life

On the Trail of Microbes that Cause Seafood Poisoning…

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