Ocean Chemistry
WHOI working to address ocean acidification; protect region’s vital shellfish industry
A new report addresses the impacts of ocean acidification in Massachusetts and New England coastal waters on the region’s vital seafood industry.
Read MoreResearchers discover an immense hydrocarbon cycle in the world’s ocean
Hydrocarbons and petroleum are almost synonymous in environmental science. After all, oil reserves account for nearly all the hydrocarbons we encounter. But the few hydrocarbons that trace their origin to biological sources may play a larger ecological role than scientists originally suspected.
NOAA Live! Webinar: It’s Not Easy Being Shelled: The Ocean Acidification Blues
Meg Chadsey, NOAA’s Washington Sea Grant and the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, WA Sponsored by: NOAA and Woods Hole…
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Increase in Atmospheric Helium from Anthropogenic Fossil Fuel Emissions
Benjamin Birner, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. Information will be posted when…
Read MoreMBL Virtual Seminar Series: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Biota: What Can We Learn Fom Annelid Polychaetes
Maria Cristina Gambi, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli, Italy Sponsored by: MBL This will be held virtually. To register, click…
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Right in Our Own Backyard: Methane Cycling on the California and Oregon Continental Shelves
Peter Girguis, Harvard University Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/94051641520 Meeting ID: 940…
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar today: Carbon Supply and Demand during the EXPORTS Northeast Pacific Field Deployment
David (Roo) Nicholson, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/95492971107 Meeting ID: 954 9297 1107 One tap mobile…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar:The Future of the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink: Robot Floats, Supercomputers, and Satellites
Joellen Russell, University of Arizona Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/94850236990?pwd=akJrTDFBeDJYakhOdVc2c1hDWVdYQT09 Meeting ID: 948 5023…
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Understanding the Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Warming for the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Using Field Surveys, Mesocosm Experiments, and Modelling
Louise Cameron, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/96972585241 Meeting ID: 969 7258…
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Sensing and Preventing Marine Nitrogen Pollution Using Selective Electrochemistry
William Tarpeh, Stanford University Sponsored by: MC&G Department Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93345738310 Meeting ID: 933 4573 8310 One tap mobile…
Read MoreFirst Detailed Oil Sample Analysis Completed from Mauritius Oil Spill
When the Japanese bulk carrier MV Wakashio struck a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius on July 25, 2020, and began leaking fuel oil two weeks later, local residents and the international community sprang into action to protect the pristine habitats that fringe the Indian Ocean nation.
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Throw It In Reverse: Is Enzyme Reversibility Wreaking Havoc in the Nitrogen Cycle?
Scott Wankel, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. oin Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/98485270086 Meeting ID: 984 8527…
Read MoreThe Earth-Shaping Animal Migration No One Ever Sees
“All the vehicles on the road in the United States produce around 1.5 PgC per year,” says Kevin Archibald, a biological oceanographer at WHOI and lead author of that study. DVM could be understood as offsetting about two-thirds of all U.S. automobile emissions.
MC&G Department Virtual Seminar: The Pacific Dissolved Cobalt Cycle: Insights from the GEOTRACES GP15 Expedition & Exploring Extracellular Superoxide in Coral Physiology and Health
Rebecca Chmiel, WHOI & Kalina Grabb, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/96874876756 Meeting ID: 968 7487 6756…
Read MorePutting the ‘nuclear coffin’ in perspective
WHOI chemist and marine radioactivity expert shares his thoughts about radioactivity waste leaking from Runit Dome—a bomb crater filled with radioactive soil in the Marshall Islands that is now being penetrated by rising sea levels
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: Hydrothermal Trace Metal Release and Microbial Metabolism in the Northeast Lau Basin
Natalie Cohen, WHOI Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/92731319251 Meeting ID: 927 3131…
Read MoreMC&G Department Virtual Seminar: From Evo to Eco: A Microbiologist’s Journey from Bench to (Small) Boat
Rosie Alegado, University of Hawaii Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/98485270086 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreNOAA Live: Carbon’s Journey and Our Warming Planet
The carbon cycle is a process where carbon dioxide travels from the atmosphere into living organisms and the Earth, then…
Read MoreMC&G Virtual Seminar: Deciphering Insights into the Past Carbon Cycle Using Calcifiers
Rosalind Rickaby, University of Oxford Sponsored by: MC&G Department This will be held virtually. Information will be posted when available
Read MoreThe $500 Billion Question: What’s the Value of Studying the Ocean’s Biological Carbon Pump?
A new paper published in the journal Science of the Total Environment from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) puts an economic value on the benefit of research to improve knowledge of the biological carbon pump and reduce the uncertainty of ocean carbon sequestration estimates.
The $500 billion question: what’s the value of studying the ocean’s biological carbon pump?
A new study puts an economic value on the benefit of research to improve knowledge of the biological carbon pump and reduce the uncertainty of ocean carbon sequestration estimates.
Read MoreEcology Research: Ocean acidification causing coral ‘osteoporosis’ on iconic reefs
New research by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals the distinct impact ocean acidification is having on coral growth on some of the world’s iconic reefs.
Disentangling influences on coral health
In a new study, Weifu Guo of WHOI and his colleagues have compiled records of existing and new skeletal growth of a stony, long-lived coral genus known as Porites to disentangle the competing effects.
Coral develops ‘osteoporosis’ because of acidic oceans caused by climate change, study reveals
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) found significant reduction in the density of coral skeleton along much of the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef system, and also on two reefs in the South China Sea, which they attribute largely to the increasing acidity of the waters surrounding these reefs since 1950.
