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WHOI Physical Oceanographer Steven Jayne and MIT-WHOI Joint Program Student Lawrence Cen take part in a training flight ahead of peak hurricane season. (Photo by Manny Haenggi, Naval Oceanographic Office)

New program aims to improve hurricane predictions with ocean data

Perkins School students visit WHOI’s Seafloor Samples laboratory

Blind and low-vision students dive into ocean science at WHOI through sound and touch

the landfall

Rising tides, resilient spirits

Ghana

Life at the margins

Lukas Taenzer (right), first author of the study, and Adrienne Silver, former Postdoc at WHOI, prepare a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) rosette to be deployed from RV Neil Armstrong to capture the water properties on the US Northeast continental shelf (Photo: Avijit Gangopadhyay/©UMass Dartmouth).

Scientists use salinity to trace changes in the U.S. Northeast coastal ocean

In May 2024, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s fifth most populous state, was hit with unprecedented rainfall, affecting 2.3 million people. (Photo by: William Fernando Marx Purper/istock)

WHOI oceanographers investigate southern Brazil’s catastrophic flooding

In 2012, a long-lasting marine heatwave wreaked havoc on Maine’s aquatic life and fishing industry. At times, water temperatures were nearly 40°F above average. (Photo credit: Rachel Mann)

WHOI scientists aim to improve the study of marine heatwaves

WHOI’s Robert Weller named to NAE Class 2025 (Photo by: ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

WHOI’s Robert Weller named to National Academy of Engineering Class of 2025

Janine Wong current art

Unseen Ocean

CTD

New study finds that critical ocean current has not declined in the last 60 years

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Proposed Wastewater Release into Cape Cod Bay Likely to Remain in Bay for at Least One Month, Study Finds

chaulk board

Nature’s Language

Gulf Stream ocean currents

Ocean in Motion

Researchers analyzed sediment core samples collected by D/V JOIDES Resolution near Cape Town, South Africa. Their findings uncovered details about the changes in deep ocean temperature and salinity, as well as the mixing histories of waters originating in both the northern and southern hemispheres. (Photo by: Sophie Hines, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Deep ocean clues to a million-year-old Ice Age puzzle revealed in new study

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Saving Tico

Tico's Face

WHOI and Brazil-based NGO partner to save West Indian manatee

Amy Bower describes outreach work.

AMS honors Dr. Amy Bower with 2025 Henry Stommel Research Medal

Historic map showing New England, plants, animals, and people

An Oceanographer’s Atlas

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