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Oceanus Magazine

Ostrander

Fires, floods, and forgotten places

August 28, 2025

Finding home with author Madeline Ostrander

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Ancient seas, future insights

July 10, 2025

WHOI scientists study the paleo record to understand how the ocean will look in a warmer climate

WHOI biologist Laela Sayigh attaches a suction-cup hydrophone to a dolphin in Sarasota Bay

Whistle! Chirp! Squeak! What does it mean?

July 1, 2025

Avatar Alliance Foundation donation helps WHOI researcher decode dolphin communication

Sonic Sharks

April 23, 2025

The predators may not be a silent as once thought

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A rare black seadevil anglerfish sees the light

March 20, 2025

A viral video shows a denizen of the ocean’s twilight zone making an unusual trip to the surface

News Releases

New report highlights plastic pollution as a grave and growing danger to health and announces an independent, health-focused global monitoring system

August 4, 2025

While the impacts of plastic pollution on human health and the environment are growing, the report finds, increasing harm due to plastics is not inevitable.

Fecal samples from bowhead whales link ocean warming to rising algal toxins in Arctic waters

July 9, 2025

Filter-feeding whales sample the Arctic food web, tracking decades of change

Groundbreaking research sheds light on how whales and dolphins use sound

June 9, 2025

Differences in brain structure between echolocating and non-echolocating marine mammals offers insight into auditory processing

UN-backed global research shows benefits of tracking ocean giants for marine conservation

June 5, 2025

WHOI researchers part of collaborative, international effort to increase Marine Protected Areas and other strategies

Researchers awarded for identifying first evidence of possible language-like communication in dolphins

May 16, 2025

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and partners take home prestigious award

News & Insights

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Summer’s coming: Will Cape Cod beaches be safe?

April 15, 2020

Beach parking lots across Cape Cod are closed to reduce the spread of COVID-19. As summertime approaches, will the beach crowds that normally show up after Memorial Day will be staying away this year? WHOI microbiologist Amy Apprill weighs in.

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Imagining Home: scientist’s stay in the Arctic extended by coronavirus

April 13, 2020

WHOI biologist Carin Ashjian is aboard the icebreaker Polarstern in the Arctic as part of the year-long MOSAiC research expedition. She should be almost home by now. Instead, her stay has been extended by COVID19.

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Now you see me, now you don’t

March 24, 2020

Marine biologists tackle an unsettling mystery surrounding sand lance–eel-like, dive-bombing fish that have become a cornerstone forage species for a wide range of marine animals in the Gulf of Maine and northwest Atlantic Ocean.

Walking on polar ice

Oceans of Change

February 27, 2020

Oceans of Change WHOI scientists learn how the ocean shapes—and is shaped by—global climate By Madeline Drexler (Photo by Simon Buchou on Unsplash) “THE SEA NEVER CHANGES, AND ITS WORKS, FOR ALL THE TALK OF MEN, ARE WRAPPED IN MYSTERY.”…

Shedding light on the deep, dark canyons of the Mid-Atlantic

February 19, 2020

WHOI biologist Tim Shank discusses the exploration of deep-sea canyons throughout the Mid-Atlantic Ocean and how ecosystems there can be managed sustainably in the face of climate change and increased human pressures.

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