Ocean Life
Climate Change Winners and Losers
The Antarctic Peninsula, the northern most region of Antarctica, is experiencing some of the most dramatic changes due to climate…
Read MoreBleached and Barren
Researchers from the lab of WHOI scientist Anne Cohen are currently working on Dongsha Atoll in the South China Sea…
Read MoreBuff Mussels
These deep-sea mussels were collected on an Alvin dive to the Florida Escarpment in the Gulf of Mexico. This rocky…
Read MoreScientists Test Hearing in Bristol Bay Beluga Whale Population
The ocean is an increasingly industrialized space. Shipping, fishing, and recreational vessels, oil and gas exploration and other human activities…
Read MoreSymbiotic Survival
Scientists have long known that corals have symbiotic relationships with algae, called zooxanthellae, which use sunlight to make food for…
Read MoreFragile Corals
As part of an ongoing collaboration, students from the Perkins School for the Blind visited the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit…
Read MoreTeam Microbe
Like humans, corals are home to millions of microbes such as bacteria and algae. Here, “Team Microbe” members Matthew Neave (WHOI…
Read MoreUncovering the Ocean’s Biological Pump
Dan Ohnemus clearly remembers the highlight of his fourth-grade class in Bourne, Mass. He and his classmates made a satellite…
Read MoreDrug Discovery in the Ocean
WHOI scientists are investigating a wide range of unexplored microbes that produce chemicals with potential therapeutic value.
Read MoreOcean color data in the Atlantic Ocean
By Amanda Kowalski, Ari Daniel :: Originally published online April 16, 2014
Read MoreOcean color in the middle of the Pacific
By Amanda Kowalski, Ari Daniel :: Originally published online April 16, 2014
Read MoreFeatured Image: Teeming with Life
A close-up view of an Acropora coral reveals small individual coral polyps (the small, button-like dots), but a microscope is…
Read MoreMad for Mud
Jill Bourque (left) and Amanda Demopoulos, scientists at the U.S Geological Survey, extract sediments from a coring device pushed into…
Read MoreScientists Identify Core Skin Bacterial Community in Humpback Whales
In a paper published in the open access journal PLOS ONE, researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues identified a core skin bacterial community that humpback whales share across populations, which could point to a way to assess the overall health of these endangered marine mammals.
Read MoreIn the Hot Seat
Summer Student Fellow Ashley Grey investigates a coral’s response to rising ocean temperatures while working in the lab of WHOI…
Read MoreNext Stop: Gulf of Mexico
After a three-year major overhaul and upgrade, the submersible Alvin was in the water in November for 14 recertification dives…
Read MoreGoing Up
After helping to secure the submersible Alvin to the research vessel Atlantis, Patrick Neumann (diving) and Allison Heater (in the…
Read MoreMysterious Jellyfish Makes a Comeback
In July 2013, Mary Carman, a researcher at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was diving in Farm Pond on Marthaâs Vineyard when something that felt like hypodermic needles stung her face.
Read MoreKilling Whales by Design and Default
While countries such as Japan, Norway, and Iceland often are criticized for their commercial whaling practices, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution…
Read MoreLiving Reefs
An abundance of life inhabits the coral reefs surrounding Vavvaru Island in the Maldives. WHOI Scientists Konrad Hughen, Justin Ossolinski…
Read MoreSea-truthing near Martha’s Vineyard
By Amanda Kowalski, Ari Daniel :: Originally published online January 1, 2014
Read MoreWHOI CSI Lab Investigates Rare Whales
Two seldomly seen deep-diving whales called True’s beaked whales were found dead on a beach on Long Island, N.Y. Why did the whales, an adult female and male juvenile,die?
Read MoreIsland Hopping
On a recent cruise aboard Pangaea Exploration’s vessel Sea Dragon, members of WHOI biogeochemist Anne Cohen’s lab sailed across the…
Read MoreResilient Reefs
WHOI post-doctoral scholar Kathryn Shamberger (left) and an employee of the Palau International Coral Reef Center collect a water sample…
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