Ocean Life
Palau’s Improbably Healthy Coral Reefs
features Anne Cohen and Hannah Barkley
Lethal Seas A unique coral garden in Papua New Guinea shows what the future may hold as oceans acidify
episode features WHOI scientists Anne Cohen, Scott Doney, Dan McCorkle and Gareth Lawson
Nauset Estuary and Town Cove closed to shellfishing
mentions WHOI
Bit O’ Coral
They look like pancakes, but they are actually bits of living coral called “nubbins” with a green band of algae…
Read MoreNew tool to help secure scallops
quotes Scott Doney and mentions WHOI
A Green Thumb for Ocean Microbes
Anyone who has tried to grow orchids or keep a bonsai tree alive will tell you that cultivating plants is…
Read MoreSecuring supply of sea scallops for today and tomorrow
reprint of WHOI news release featuring Scott Doney
also picked up by Phys.org
Securing the Supply of Sea Scallops for Today and Tomorrow
Good management has brought the $559 million United States sea scallop fishery back from the brink of collapse over the past 20 years. However, its current fishery management plan does not account for longer-term environmental change like ocean warming and acidification that may affect the fishery in the future. A group of researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, and Ocean Conservancy hope to change that.
Read MoreTwo-hundred Years of Cuban Coral Arrives in Santa Cruz
mentions Konrad Hughen and WHOI
Safe Haven
Clouds of buestreak fusiliers swarm over giant “plates” of tabletop coral (Acropora spp.) on the reefs at South Brother Island in…
Read MoreFat Chance
A fatty compound responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic may hold unexpected promise in…
Read MoreJourney to a Ph.D.
Eleanor Bors opted to skip her commencement exercises at Oberlin in 2009 to get an early start in WHOI’s annual…
Read MoreFuture Ocean Vision
A group of students from the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., visited the Ocean Science Exhibit Center…
Read MoreEarth Day, Every Day
A school of humpback snapper glows in the sunlight of South Brother Island of the Chagos Archipelago during a recent…
Read MoreDeep Sea Wonders
quotes Tim SHank
Coral Collectors
WHOI scientists Amy Apprill (left) and Matthew Neave collect tissue samples from corals off Woleai Atoll of the Federated States of…
Read MoreWhatever happened to ‘The World’s Loneliest Whale?’
mentions Bill Watkins’ work
Deepwater Horizon
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 people and released about 75,000 gallons of…
Read MoreThe World’s Loneliest Whale May Not be Alone After All
quotes Peter Tyack and Mark Baumgartner, mentions Bill Watkins research
Maybe the World’s Loneliest Whale Isn’t So Isolated, After All
mentons Bill Watkins research
Coexisting in a Sea of Competition
Links to WHOI news release featuring Harriet Alexander’s work
Coexisting in a Sea of Competition
quotes Harriet Alexander
Coexisting in a sea of competition
reprint of WHOI news release
featuring MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Harriet Alexander
Ocean commotion: Protecting sea life from our noise
features Darlene Ketten and mentions WHOI