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Julia Guimond (Photo by Brady Clarke © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.)

Cold, quiet, and carbon-rich: Investigating winter wetlands

May 7, 2025

A hydrologist takes on a groundbreaking study to understand how groundwater moves through New England salt marshes in the winter.

mROV concept rendering

New underwater vehicles in development at WHOI

April 30, 2025

New vehicles will be modeled after WHOI’s iconic remotely operated vehicle, Jason

Learning to see through cloudy waters

April 3, 2025

How MIT-WHOI student Amy Phung is helping robots accomplish dangerous tasks in murky waters

buoy

Navigating new waters

November 22, 2024

The engineering team at the Ocean Observatories Initiative overcomes the hurdles of deploying the coastal pioneer array at a new site

Tom Bell

The 10,000-foot view

June 27, 2024

WHOI’s Tom Bell tracks changes to vulnerable coastal ecosystems with aerial imagery

News Releases

CUREE autonomous underwater vehicle

Autonomous underwater robot discovers hidden coral reef “hotspots”

May 13, 2026

New underwater robot opens new possibilities in coral reef conservation by autonomously identifying biodiversity “hotspots”

WHOI Scientist Catherine Walker Joins NASA-Selected EDGE Satellite Mission

February 12, 2026

Satellite measuring land, polar, and coastal regions could launch by 2030

Sargassum Patch

Study reveals dramatic decline in historic sargassum populations, with WHOI scientists helping unravel basin-scale changes

December 4, 2025

The findings point to warming ocean temperatures, shifting nutrient regimes, and changing circulation patterns as likely contributors to this emerging basin-scale redistribution of Sargassum.

International research team discovers a potential source of abiotic methane in the Arctic Ocean

November 21, 2025

A distinctive oceanic core complex releasing hot fluids has been identified at a depth of 2,700 meters on the Arctic Ocean’s floor.

WHOI’s Jennifer Johnson receives Fulbright Specialist Award

August 7, 2025

Research Associate will complete a project at the National Fisheries and Marine Research Institute in Angola.

News & Insights

WHOI builds bridges with Arctic Indigenous communities

February 10, 2021

NSF program fosters collaboration between indigenous communities and traditional scientists, allowing WHOI’s autonomous vehicles to shed light on a changing Arctic

WHOI-assisted study finds ocean dumping of DDT waste was “sloppy”

October 29, 2020

An investigative report this week in the LA Times features the work of WHOI’s marine geochemistry lab in identifying the discarded barrels and analyzing samples from the discovery.

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