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Is underwater noise from construction affecting the American Lobster?

July 9, 2026

WHOI’s Sensory Ecology Lab investigates whether an industrialized soundscape impacts the health of a New England icon

Hadal Snailfish

Squishy survivor

June 12, 2026

How the snailfish survives the ocean’s most extreme pressures

Mar de Plata canyon

Answers from the abyss

June 11, 2026

How new discoveries in the deep could change life at the surface

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A hadal zone mystery solved

June 11, 2026

An upside-down swimming isopod shows how tightly we are connected to the deep ocean

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A mother seal dives

June 10, 2026

Follow a Weddell seal as her body adapts to foraging in deep, frigid waters

News Releases

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The NSF Seafood Engine in New England wins $15M U.S. National Science Foundation award to strengthen fisheries and aquaculture

July 14, 2026

The Seafood Engine will initially receive an award of $15 million over two years, with the potential to grow up to $160 million over ten years as it works to build an internationally competitive technology and innovation cluster.

Expedition captures first detailed imagery of Robert Falcon Scott’s last ship, Terra Nova, using cutting-edge Canadian Voyis 3D technology

July 14, 2026

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

Atlantis and Alvin

Heroic Age Expedition to survey two of the world’s most famous shipwrecks

July 1, 2026

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

Endangered basking sharks rely on the ocean twilight zone during long-distance migrations

June 3, 2026

A new WHOI study shows basking sharks dive nearly 1,000 meters deep, likely in search of prey

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”

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