Ocean Life
The Creepy, Unbelievably Inspiring World of Deep Sea Parasites
Ocean hitchhikers and bodysnatchers abound in the ocean, from the surface down to the deepest trenches. The question is, why? And is it a good thing?
Read MoreNOAA Live! Webinar: It Takes a Village to Save the Hawaiian Monk Seal
Stacie Robinson, NOAA Fisheries Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and Wendy Marks, the Marine Mammal Center, Kona Sponsored by: NOAA…
Read MoreAOP&E Department Virtual Seminar: Remote Sensing of Secluded Ecosystems – Challenges and Perspectives Using the Example of Penguin Colonies
Dan Zitterbart, WHOI This will be held virtually. Please Join: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/j/93873912253?pwd=Rmo0OXpTT2tJQmNsSzRVNTNwMG1Sdz09 Meeting ID: 938 7391 2253 Passcode: xF&4Gh Dial-in only: 646…
Read MoreNOAA Live! Webinar: Whale and Seek: The Underwater Lives of Whales
Dave Wiley, NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Sponsored by: NOAA and Woods Hole Sea Grant This will be held…
Read MoreNew technology expected to play a key role in shark research
In November, Skomal and the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy fitted two sharks with new satellite positioning tags developed by a team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution that can be fastened to a white shark’s fin without having to capture it and drill mounting holes.
Researchers tag free-swimming sharks off Cape Cod using minimally invasive device
Researchers and scientists were recently able to use fin-mounted location tracking tags on free-swimming sharks off of Cape Cod while using a device that allowed them to tag the sharks without capturing them.
Humpback whale songs provide insight to population changes
Following reports of unusually low whale numbers that began in 2015-16, researchers at the University of Hawaii in collaboration with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, Oceanwide Science Institute and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, examined song chorusing recorded through long-term passive acoustic monitoring at six sites off Maui.
In a major effort to protect endangered whales, state officials plan to ban lobster fishing for several months a year
Moving to ropeless fishing would have “a far more lasting impact in reducing mortality, and equally importantly, the health and hence reproductive success of live animals,” said Michael Moore, director of the Marine Mammal Center at WHOI.
NOAA Live! Saving Corals: A Day in the Life of a Coral Reef Scientist
Biology Department Virtual Seminar: Joint Program Student Presentations
A Divergent Divorce Pattern Between Sexes in a Seabird Population with Unequal Sex Ratio Ruijiao Sun, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Stony…
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene Ocean: Novel Insights from Skeletal Proxies of Climate Change, Impacts, and Resilience
Nathaniel R. Mollica, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office This will be held virtually. To register, use this…
Read MoreNOAA Live! Webinar: Abalone: Gardeners of the Kelp Forest
David Witting, NOAA’s Restoration Center, CA Sponsored by: NOAA and Woods Hole Sea Grant This will be held virtually and…
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 MoreNOAA Live! Webinar: Drones, Scat, and the Joys of Marine Mammal Fieldwork in Alaska
Katie Sweeney, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center, WA Sponsored by: NOAA and Woods Hole Sea Grant This will be…
Read MoreUnicorns of the Arctic face a new potential threat
Narwhals and other marine mammals could be vulnerable to a new threat we’ve become all too familiar with: COVID-19
Read MoreBiology Department Virtual Seminar: Fronts Implicated as the Missing Mechanism Driving Phytoplankton Variability in the Iron-Limited Subarctic NE Pacific
Amanda Timmerman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Sponsored by: Biology Department This seminar will be held virtually via Zoom. Join Zoom…
Read MoreEndangered right whale population down to 360 as they begin migration toward Florida coast
As the critically endangered North Atlantic right whales begin their southward migration from New England and Canada toward the coast of Florida, including Volusia and Flagler counties, researchers are marking the beginning of calving season with uncertainty and urgency.
Fishing gear confirmed as major cause of right whale deaths
A major study looking into the deaths of North Atlantic right whales has found that entanglement in fishing gear has become a leading cause of mortality.
Film explores path to right whale’s extinction
In May 2019, the United Nations released a report that said 1 million species on Earth were facing extinction, and that the rate of extinction was accelerating. Boston Globe reporter David Abel said it led him to make the film “Entangled” about the path to extinction for one species people on the Cape know well.
Scientists call for decade of concerted effort to enhance understanding of the deep seas
An international team of scientists, spanning 45 institutions in 17 countries, has called for a dedicated decade-long program of research to greatly advance discovery in these remote regions.
NOAA Live! Webinar: Saving Corals: A Day in the Life of a Coral Reef Scientist
Derek Manzello, NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, FL Sponsored by: NOAA and Woods Hole Sea Grant This will be…
Read MoreOcean research group says right whale entanglements hurt animals’ reproductive health
A research group says the rise in the number of fishing-gear entanglements of North American right whales is hurting the animals’ ability to reproduce and care for their young.
The Battle Below
In late September, President Trump declared the U.S. dependence on China for so-called ‘rare earth’ minerals a ‘national emergency’. Those minerals are essential to technology from our phones to our top-level defense weapons. In today’s cover story, Lisa Fletcher takes us on a deep dive, literally, beneath the earth’s surface into the ocean for ‘the battle below.’
An Ocean Poem: spoken word performance at Ocean Encounters
Watch Victoria Bautista perform An Ocean Poem a spoken word about the mysterious life that lurks below the ocean surface. This performance took place during WHOI’s 2020 Ocean Encounters finale episode entitled Our Enchanted Ocean and was recorded on October 28, 2020.
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