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The Last Voyage?
The Deep Submergence Vehicle (DSV) Alvin finished a five-month overhaul in Woods Hole in early April and returned to sea…
Read MoreWHOI Scientist Selected As Leopold Leadership Fellow
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist Christopher Reddy has been chosen one of 18 academic environmental scientists from throughout the…
Read MoreDaily Dispatches from Hawaii
Several hundred WHOI scientists and engineers will join the nearly 3,500 researchers at Ocean Sciences 2006, jointly sponsored by the…
Read MoreHow Does Iron Get Into the Ocean?
Marine scientists and engineers have created a new tool to track an essential ingredient on which life in the oceans…
Read MoreNew Instrumentation May Help Scientists Understand Earthquake Mechanics
Hundreds of earthquakes occur every day around the world, most of them underneath the oceans, while the vast majority of…
Read MoreA View from Down Under
While it may be summer in the southern hemisphere, it is still very cold on Antarctica, where WHOI researchers are…
Read MoreMonitoring Baleen Whales with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Like robots of the deep, autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, are growing in number and use in the oceans to…
Read MoreDeep Submergence Vehicle Alvin Overhaul in Action
Watch the latest progress on the overhaul of the three-person submersible Alvin at http://alvincam.whoi.edu/view/view.shtml. The sub has been ashore in…
Read MoreWarmer than a Hot Tub: Atlantic Ocean Temperatures Much Higher in the Past
Scientists have found evidence that tropical Atlantic Ocean temperatures may have once reached 107°F (42°C)about 25°F (14°C) higher than ocean…
Read MoreNew Sonar Method Offers Way to Assess Health of Squid Fisheries
California?s $30-million-a-year squid fishery has quadrupled in the past decade, but until now there has been no way to assess the continuing viability of squid stocks. A new sonar technique offers a window onto next year?s potential squid population.
Read MoreAutonomous Underwater Vehicle Maps Ancient Greek Shipwreck
Additional contact: Denise Brehm MIT News Office 617-253-2704 brehm@mit.edu After lying hidden for millennia off the coast…
Read MoreMagnetic Misfits: South Seeking Bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere
Magnetotactic bacteria contain chains of magnetic iron minerals that allow them to orient in the earth’s magnetic field much like…
Read MoreClues in a Crater: From India to the Surface of Mars
Researchers from WHOI, Harvard, MIT and Princeton will conduct the second part of an intensive field and laboratory study this…
Read MoreChanges in the Antarctic Ecosystem: Salps versus Krill
WHOI biologists will travel to Antarctica in mid-February to study salps⎯transparent, gelatinous, planktonic animals that generate massive populations containing individuals…
Read MoreWho Goes to Sea Wishing for Bad Weather?
Some physical oceanographers do, even if it is in January in the North Atlantic. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists…
Read MoreRerouting of Major Rivers in Asia Provides Clues to Mountains of the Past
Scientists have long recognized that the collision of the earth’s great crustal plates generates mountain ranges and other features of…
Read MoreWHOI Seeks to Raise $200 Million in Comprehensive Campaign
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has announced a $200-million comprehensive campaign to raise endowment and unrestricted operating funds to…
Read MoreNoah’s Flood: New Evidence of Catastrophic Flooding in the Black Sea
Results from a July 2005 cruise in the Black Sea may settle a longstanding debate over evidence of a megaflood…
Read MoreFine-tuning the Steps in the Intricate Climate Change Dance
New scientific findings are strengthening the case that the oceans and climate are linked in an intricate dance, and that…
Read MoreNew Technology for New Exploration of Hydrothermal Vents
Advances in undersea imaging systems, the development of new vehicles and instruments, and improved seafloor mapping capabilities have enabled scientists…
Read MoreWHOI Blog from AGU
Check the WHOI blog for news updates from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting. More than 10,000 Earth, space…
Read MoreInsight into Freshwater Input to the North Atlantic Ocean
The strongest climate cooling event in the last 10,000 years occurred about 8,200 years ago. Known as the 8.2 ka…
Read MoreDual Vehicle Operations a Sign of the Future in Seafloor Exploration
Deploying two or more underwater vehicles from a single vessel makes better use of ship time and personnel, but requires…
Read MoreDeep-sea Light Post Transforms the Ocean Floor into a Photography Studio
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists (WHOI) and engineers have designed a portable deep-sea light post to illuminate the dark ocean…
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