How the Ocean Works
Five big discoveries from WHOI’s Ocean Twilight Zone Project
Six years since it began, WHOI's Ocean Twilight Zone project brings new and exciting insights…
An open polar sea?
The once-romanticized notion of an ice-free Arctic comes full circle
Our eyes on the seafloor
A Q&A with WHOI marine microbiologist Maria Pachiadaki on sampling the deep ocean with Jason
Record breakers
Find out how Antarctica's seven largest ice shelf collapses size up in this climate interactive
The Polar Imperative
WHOI researchers tackle big questions in a melting world
Happy Working in the Mud
Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Rachel Jakuba explains how her passion for chemistry lead to…
The pull of the poles
Researchers discuss their work at the ends of the earth
A cold case, filed
A year after East Antarctica’s Conger ice shelf collapsed, an expert uses forensic evidence to…
The climate won’t wait
MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Emma Bullock talks Arctic research in an age of climate change…
Will the Gulf Stream really shut down?
WHOI physical oceanographer Robert Todd weighs in
Unlocking the Earth’s time capsule
Mantle rocks and fluids from one of the final expeditions on the R/V JOIDES Resolution…
The anatomy of ice
Explore the beauty and science behind Greenland's glaciers through this images from photographer Roger Fishman
A cozy crusade
The mittens of Arctic explorer Matthew Henson tell the story of hope and determination
Filming in the Arctic Night
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Emmy-nominated PBS film, Life in The Dark: The…
Experts gather to discuss the ocean’s super-powered carbon pump
Morss Colloquium focuses on the ocean’s role in moving carbon out of the atmosphere and…
A new way to track marine snow ‘blizzards’
New submersible provides insights into how organic carbon moves through the ocean twilight zone
3 memorable Jason Dives
Volcanoes, vents, and creatures of the deep through the lens of ROV Jason
Making sense of a mystery fish
Scientists tackle long-standing questions about the elusive American eel
It’s always freezing in the Arctic. Or is it?
WHOI experts dig into a popular misconception that the Arctic is always frigid.
What’s happening with AMOC?
Scientists discuss the state of the Atlantic Ocean’s ‘conveyor belt’
How did the ocean remain so quiet during Tonga’s eruption?
Underwater acoustics expert Gil Averbuch teases apart a mystery
AI in the Ocean Twilight Zone
Deep Learning techniques are revealing new secrets about the mesopelagic
Paddling an angry, ancient ocean
If ancient Beringians got to the Americas by boat, it couldn’t have been easy