Climate & Ocean
Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: On the Interaction Between Submesoscales and Turbulence: From Theory to Global Climate Models
Abigail Bodner, Brown University Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88208388153?pwd=bHBvby9BbVNUa3hzUFdKempGbUdmUT09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreBiology Department Virtual Seminar – Ocean Deoxygenation: An Emerging Stressor on Coral Reefs
Maggie Johnson, WHOI Sponsored by: Biology Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88982828909?pwd=TnkzUHpvc0txMTA1WWViNVZseTVEdz09
Read MoreSpecial Marine Policy Center Virtual Seminar: Climate Change and Political Contention – A Mechanism-Based Framework
Zafar Imran, University of Maryland, College Park Sponsored by: Marine Policy Center This will be held virtually. Event address for…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Is the Ocean Circulation Speeding Up?
Carl Wunsch, Harvard University Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84513043557?pwd=TVorbU92c3J5T21jaW5OV3lMUmoyUT09 Meeting ID:…
Read More‘A risk for the future’: How warming oceans are disrupting America’s seafood supply
Recorded temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are increasing at an “alarming” rate, according to one scientist, and forcing fisherman to confront a seafood industry primed for disruption.
Study shows wetter climate is likely to intensify global warming
Wetter climate to trigger global warming feedback loop in the tropics
As the tropics get wetter, as many climate models predict, soils are likely to experience greater rates of respiration and decomposition, limiting the carbon storage abilities of tropical soils and intensifying global warming.
Covid-19 Forces Spring Science Field Work to Go Fallow
Carin Ashjian, a senior scientist at WHOI, was one of 97 scientists and crew members aboard a German oceanographic research vessel that has been deliberately stranded in Arctic Sea ice as part of the year-long MOSAIC experiment.
Physical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Modeling Icebergs in Glacial and Modern Climates
Till Wagner, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84991248533?pwd=K25jdFVxK3BuVDZwNVllVktqOEFCdz09 Meeting ID: 849 9124…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Coastal Hazards, Risks and Climate-Resilient Solutions
Borja Reguero, University of California, Santa Cruz Sponsored by: AOP&E Department Please join: https://zoom.us/j/97274223820?pwd=aU5xWUM3MkppVCtXcEltbVdyK1pQUT09 Meeting ID: 972 7422 3820 Password:…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Commitments to Climate Change
Megan Lickley, MIT Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually over Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting via: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88387447968?pwd=Skh3dHBMM0lnOE56dFpvc3hXNWZ4Zz09…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Virtual Seminar: Shelfbreak Downwelling in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea
Nicholas Foukal, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually over Zoom. To join, visit: https://zoom.us/j/550314408?pwd=a05NMG5TRXFBNCtIN28rSDROZGZkUT09 Meeting…
Read MoreA rapidly changing Arctic
A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their international colleagues found that freshwater runoff from rivers and continental shelf sediments are bringing significant quantities of carbon and trace elements into parts of the Arctic Ocean via the Transpolar Drift—a major surface current that moves water from Siberia across the North Pole to the North Atlantic Ocean.
Read MoreThe ocean’s ‘biological pump’ captures more carbon than expected
Scientists have long known that the ocean plays an essential role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere, but a new study from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that the efficiency of the ocean’s “biological carbon pump” has been drastically underestimated, with implications for future climate assessments.
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Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Strong and Prolonged Warm Water Flow toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 2017
Svenja Ryan, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually over Zoom. If you wish to view…
Read MoreThe Ocean is Earth’s Oxygen Bank
Oxygen is like money for Earth, and the ocean acts like a bank. Deposits are made in three ocean layers: At the surface through exchange with air, in the water, when phytoplankton produce O2 from sunlight and CO2, and on the seafloor where plants and corals live. Withdrawals occur when organisms consume oxygen. Oxygen is tightly connected to life in the ocean, and can tell us a lot about an ecosystem’s health & productivity. This is why we need an ocean oxygen budget. A simple idea, but has been difficult until now.
Read More$8.3M award to WHOI extends observational record of critical climate research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded $8.3 million to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to extend the life of the Overturning in the Sub-polar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) in a key part of Earth’s ocean-climate system.
Read MoreSnapping Shrimp Pump Up the Volume in Warmer Water
As the ocean warms because of climate change, the louder din could mask other marine animals’ calls used to navigate, forage, and find mates.
Shrimp May Make Ocean Louder in Warming Climate
Small snapping shrimp make big noises and scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution say the tiny crustaceans could make the ocean louder as it warms. Here’s why.
Indian Ocean phenomenon spells climate trouble for Australia
New international research by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues has found a marked change in the Indian Ocean’s surface temperatures that puts southeast Australia on course for increasingly hot and dry conditions.
Read MoreStudy reveals rapid sea-level rise along U.S. Atlantic coast in 18th century
During the 18th century, sea levels along a stretch of the Atlantic coast of North America were rising almost as fast as they were during the 20th Century, reveals a new study.
Read MoreStudy reveals Missoula Floods impact on past abrupt climate changes
A new study shows for the first time how massive flood events in the eastern North Pacific Ocean—known as the Missoula Floods—may have in part triggered abrupt climate changes in the Northern Hemisphere during the last deglaciation (approximately 19,000–11,700 years ago).
Read MoreOceans of Change
Oceans of Change WHOI scientists learn how the ocean shapes—and is shaped by—global climate By Madeline Drexler (Photo by Simon…
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