Ocean Circulation
Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Physical Controls on the Macrofaunal Benthic Biomass in the Northeast Chukchi Sea
Robert S. Pickart, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Control of the Abyssal Ocean Overturning Circulation by Mixing-Driven Bottom Boundary Layers
Henri F. Drake, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office This will be held virtually. Register in advance for…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Kinematic Structure and Dynamics of the Denmark Strait Overflow From Ship-Based Observations
Peigen Lin, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MoreScience RoCS Initiative responds to need for increased ocean monitoring
Commercial ships are helping oceanographers deploy robotic Argo floats to keep an eye on hard-to-reach parts of the ocean
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Vertical Fluxes in the Upper Ocean
Mara Freilich, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office Click here to register or use the URL below: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-yvrDouH9eJR2r90hRaaYttaUKP75AF
Read MoreNASA’s S-MODE Takes to the Air and Sea to Study Ocean Eddies
The S-MODE team hopes to learn more about small-scale movements of ocean water such as eddies. These whirlpools span about 6.2 miles or ten kilometers, slowly moving ocean water in a swirling pattern.
Physical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar:Lee Waves in Shear Flow
Yue Cynthia Wu, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Diatom Hotspots Driven by Western Boundary Current Instability
Hilde Oliver, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85882575533?pwd=b2dYOVFlclJPYnlsY3NhZGpleXBtUT09 Meeting ID: 858 8257 5533; Password: 2296Audio-only…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Amazing Longevity of Ocean Vortices
Georgi Sutyrin, University of Rhode Island Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Flows in Horizontal Thermohaline Convection with Differential Diffusion
Jack Whitehead, WHOI Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Pathways of Vertical Nutrient Fluxes
Mara Freilich, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Characterizing the Spatial Distribution of Transport and Mixing In Three-Dimensional Flows by Lagrangian Tools
Jezabel Curbelo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting:…
Read MoreAmidst pandemic, researchers deploy new monitoring station in tropical Pacific
After two attempts in 2020 to replace a monitoring station of the coast of Chile, WHOI researchers and colleagues successfully deployed the moored system despite pandemic-related challenges. This extends a 20-year ongoing presence of a monitoring buoy in this otherwise data-sparse area of the Pacific.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: 120 Years of AMOC Variability Reconstructed from Observations Using the Bernoulli Inverse
Neil Fraser, Scottish Association for Marine Science Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting:…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Long-Range Propagation of Acoustic and Gravity Waves
Tiago Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Sponsored by: AOP&E Department This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID:…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Internal Wave-Driven Mixing: Governing Processes and Consequences for Climate
Caitlin Whalen, University of Washington Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom meeting: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting…
Read MoreTracking change in the Arctic Ocean
Changes in the Arctic Ocean are becoming clearer, thanks to an ocean monitoring network maintained by WHOI researchers in the Beaufort Gyre since 2003.
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Transport and Overturning in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre
Greg Koman, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. This…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: North Atlantic Circulation and More Globally: Attempts at Connecting Circulation and Watermass Transformation
Peter Rhines, University of Washington Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. This will be held virtually.…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual seminar: A Proposal: Measuring Global Sea Level Changes with Surface Drifting Buoys
Shane Elipot, RSMAS Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97073458686?pwd=U01aa2FpRStyVzFFbEREeG9laUF6QT09 Meeting ID: 970…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Observations of the Overturning Volume, Heat and Freshwater Transports in the Subpolar North Atlantic
Feili Li, Georgia Tech Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/97014554030?pwd=N3FZM1NtenpaU2ZHUGtWZFhYRExpZz09 Meeting ID:…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Revisiting Near-Inertial Wind Work: Slab Models, Relative Stress and Mixed-Layer Deepening
Matthew Alford, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/92116246862?pwd=Ui9Lbm9qRzlBWFVWbGFPOVZicWVZdz09…
Read MorePhysical Oceanography Department Virtual Seminar: Sources and Upstream Pathways of the Dense Overflow Water in the Nordic Seas
Jie Huang, Tsinghua University Sponsored by: Physical Oceanography Department This will be held virtually. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84984245113?pwd=N0g0RnNtRmREVjF6dWNybE5EU1Y2dz09 Meeting ID:…
Read MoreInvestigating the ocean’s influence on Australia’s drought
Researchers look to the Indian Ocean for clues on how Australia’s blazing wildfires and bone-dry conditions have reached such extremes.
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