Ice Ages & Past Climates
Why is the Greenland Ice Sheet melting faster than ever?
Senior scientist Claudia Cenedese has been studying how glaciers melt for the last 15 years in her fluids laboratory. In 2018 she was a principal investigator on a research cruise in Greenland for the first time. She wants to understand why the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than ever and what happens to the fresh water released into the ocean.
Read MoreMore Than 11,000 International Scientists Declare Climate Emergency
A new paper endorsed by 11,258 scientists and researchers from 153 countries describes climate change as a “climate emergency.” Published in the journal BioScience, it warns of “untold human suffering” if individuals, governments, and businesses don’t make deep and lasting changes.
How Arctic Sea Ice Decline and Indian Ocean Warming Affect the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Alexey Federov, Yale Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department
Read MoreSpecial Seminar: Got Ice? A Statistical Approach to Marking Sea Ice and Atmospheric Conditions with a Low-Powered Imaging Sonar
Gregory Burgess, U.S. Naval Academy Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office – Redfield Auditorium
Read MoreWords and Numbers: How Americans Described the Little Ice Age in their Almanacs
Geodynamics Seminar Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University Sponsored by: Deputy Director & Vice President for Research’s Office & Academic Programs
Read MoreIce Ages & Past Climates
Earth’s climate has undergone many changes over the course of geologic history, but the past one million years or so…
Read MoreDating Corals, Knowing the Ocean
Coral is a useful tool for scientists who want to understand changes in past climate, but recalling that history presents…
Read MoreThe long memory of the Pacific Ocean
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Harvard University have found that the deep Pacific Ocean lags a few centuries behind in terms of temperature and is still adjusting to the entry into the Little Ice Age. Whereas most of the ocean is responding to modern warming, the deep Pacific may be cooling.
Read MoreJourney to the Bottom of the Sea
My eyelids were tightly pressed down as I mustered all the tricks I could think of to get myself to…
Read MoreUnearthing Long-Gone Hurricanes
A graduate student at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution tracks a trail of clues left behind on the seafloor by hurricanes as they stream across the ocean.
Read MoreWill Oxygen in the Ocean Continue to Decline?
The living, breathing ocean may be slowly starting to suffocate. The ocean has lost more than two percent of its…
Read MoreNova: Killer Hurricanes
features the work of Jeff Donnelly
Blue Holes and Hurricanes
Scientists are digging into clues that settle into sinkholes in the seafloor to learn about hurricane patterns in the past and in the future.
Read MoreMore Floods & Higher Sea Levels
A research team predicts potentially big changes within the next century that would have significant impacts on those who live on or near the coast.
Read MoreCoral Coring
Off a small island in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) biogeochemists Konrad Hughen…
Read MoreNorth Atlantic played pivotal role in last great climate tipping point
mentions WHOI
Uh Oh: Antarctica Might Melt Much Faster Than We Thought
quotes Luke Trusel and mentions WHOI
Tracking a Trail of Carbon
Lake Titicaca in the Andes Mountains of South America is an extraordinary place to explore ancient human civilization, Earth’s climate history, and the flow of carbon through our planet.
Read MoreHeat release from stagnant deep sea helped end last Ice Age
Mentions WHOI’s contribution to the study.
How Rivers Bury Carbon at Sea
features Valier Galy, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, and Timothy Eglinton
Study Reveals How Rivers Regulate Global Carbon Cycle
ran the WHOI news release featuring Valier Galy, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, and Timothy Eglinton
How Rivers Regulate Global Carbon Cycle
features Valier Galy, Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink, and Timothy Eglinton
California’s water conservation efforts hindered as tiered pricing ruled unconstitutional
mentions 2014 WHOI study on drought
Monster hurricanes reached U.S. during prehistoric periods of ocean warming
Intense hurricanes, possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history, frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire into the height of the Middle Ages, according to a new study. The findings could have implications for the intensity and frequency of hurricanes the U.S. could experience as ocean temperatures increase as a result of climate change, according to the study’s authors.
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