Research Highlights
Oceanus Magazine
The latest robotics projects happening inside the George and Wendy David Center for Ocean Innovation
OOI engineer Irene Duran’s life took her from a dry, hot California town to a career where preparing for inclement weather is part of the job
News Releases
The Heroic Age Expedition, led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in partnership with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, reveals the famed Antarctic explorer’s last ship, Terra Nova in stunning detail
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in partnership with WHOI, will undertake “once-in-a-generation” expedition to survey Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Quest and Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova
New underwater robot opens new possibilities in coral reef conservation by autonomously identifying biodiversity “hotspots”
Satellite measuring land, polar, and coastal regions could launch by 2030
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.
News & Insights
NSF program fosters collaboration between indigenous communities and traditional scientists, allowing WHOI’s autonomous vehicles to shed light on a changing Arctic
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.