Ocean Life
Mesobot: Following life in the Twilight Zone
Mesobot is a brand new underwater vehicle designed to reveal what lives in the ocean’s twilight zone. Mesobot can follow animals as they move through the darkness and as they migrate from the depths to the surface and back. The twilight zone is vast and remote, but is threatened by unregulated fishing and climate change. We need Mesobot’s insights to understand and protect the twilight zone before humans change it forever.
Read MoreScientists Team With Fishermen on Tracking Technology
Scientists from the Center for Coastal Studies and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are working with local commercial fishermen to install video monitoring equipment on gillnets.
BGC-Argo Observations and Ecosystem Forecasting for the Western Pacific Ocean
Fei Chai, University of Maine Sponsored by: Biology Department
Read MoreKnow Your Ocean Science Chats: River Herring Network
Abigail Archer, Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension Marine Program & Woods Hole Sea Grant Sponsored by: WHOI Discovery &…
Read MoreThe UN should protect the ocean’s twilight zone
Op-ed piece written by Mark Abbott, president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Chris Scholin, president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Monterey Bay: Following the DNA trail in the Pacific Ocean
As ocean acidification and climate change become the new reality, scientists wonder what will happen to the distribution and well-being of plants and animals. “Monitoring communities and ecosystems is going to be much easier done by DNA methods,” says Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan, an environmental engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic. “You take one water sample and look for everything from microbes to whales.”
Blue sharks use eddies for fast track to food
Blue sharks use large, swirling ocean currents, known as eddies, to fast-track their way down to feed in the ocean twilight zone—a layer of the ocean between 200 and 1000 meters deep containing the largest fish biomass on Earth, according to new research by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and the Applied Physics Lab at the University of Washington (UW).
Read MoreSharkCam reveals secret lives of basking sharks in UK
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) known as the REMUS SharkCam has been used in the UK for the first time to observe the behaviour of basking sharks in the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland.
Read MoreCracking the secret of green crabs
A feature story on Carolyn Tepolt, an assistant scientist in the WHOI Biology Department, and her research on the invasive green crab.
Infrared Cameras Could Help Ships Avoid Whales
An interview with Dan Zitterbart, a WHOI scientist who is testing a new thermal infrared imaging system to detection whales in busy waterways to prevent ship strikes.
A tunnel to the Twilight Zone
Scientists track hungry blue sharks as they ride swirling currents down to the ocean twilight zone—a layer of the ocean containing the largest fish biomass on Earth
Read MorePelagic octopus
Argonauts like this pelagic octopus, found in the ocean twilight zone, are rarely found in the wild. Only the females…
Read MoreFriday Evening Lectures Series: The Past and Future of Bioluminescence Research, in Light of the Contributions of Osamu Shimomura
Steven Haddock, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Sponsored by: MBL
Read MoreWhy do pilot whales strand? We ask experts
To find out what causes these mass strandings of whales, WMNF interviewed Darlene Ketten, a senior research scientist at Boston University and at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Part of her research involves pathologies associated with whale strandings.
Summer Student Fellow Final Presentations: Metabolic Enzyme Activity over a Daily Cycle in Vertically Migrating Copepods
Nora McNamara-Bordewick, Barnard College Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreA Snail Story: Phenotypic and Genotypic Divergence in Littorina saxatilis in the Gulf of Maine
Sarah E. Kingston, Bowdoin College & University of Maine Sponsored by: Biology Department
Read MoreFilm Director James Cameron on the Ocean Twilight Zone
Today, the U.S. is a powerhouse of ocean science research and marine engineering, led by organizations such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, among others. These are the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center, and Goddard Space Flight Center of ocean exploration.
Summer Lecture Series : Super Reefs Science and the Future of Coral
Anne Cohen, WHOI Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreWhy Do Some Animals Have Such Bizarre Pupil Shapes?
Lydia Mathger, MBL Sponsored by: Biology Department
Read MoreKnow Your Ocean Science Chats: Tracking Humpback Whales in Antarctica
Daniel Zitterbart, WHOI Sponsored by: WHOI Discovery Center & Visitor Center
Read MoreFriday Evening Lectures Series – Forbes Lecture: Cephalopods, Visual Perception, Motor Control and Brain Evolution
Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Sponsored by: MBL
Read MoreDoctoral Dissertation Defense of Thesis: Physiological and Behavioral Responses, and their Variability, in Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, Embryos and Paralarvae Reared Under Chronic Ocean Acidification
Casey James Zakroff, MIT-WHOI Joint Program Sponsored by: Academic Programs Office
Read MoreStars and Stripes
A golden feather star raises its arms to feed. Behind, brittle stars are perched across the boulder-field. (Photo courtesy of…
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