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Gulf Stream flounder and Black Sea bass caught near Block Island, RI. An unusual catch, but the reason it was found so far up north is likely due to a warm water intrustion caused by ocean eddies and wind, explained in a new WHOI-led study. Image credit: Mike Marchetti (inshore scallop fisherman)

Tropical fish…up north? How ocean physics play a role in altering water temperature and salinity

December 10, 2021
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From the sound: A future powered by the sea

December 8, 2021
Marine ecologist Amy Apprill deploys an underwater listening device, or single-channel hydrophone, to analyze the soundscape of a reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands. (Photo by Paul Caiger, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

A coral reef kickstart

November 23, 2021
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Burrows on the beach

October 26, 2021
(Image courtesy of WHOI Creative, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Accessible Oceans

October 13, 2021
Swirling parcels of water, called ocean eddies, spin off from the warm Gulf Stream, the powerful northward-flowing current that hugs the U.S. East Coast before veering east across the Atlantic Ocean. This visualization was generated by a numerical model that simulates ocean circulation. WHOI researchers are studying western boundary ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, and how their behavior can be associated with climate. Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization © NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center

Modeling our climate future; WHOI to lead ocean current research

October 6, 2021
A water sampler known as a conductivity, temperature, depth (CTD) rosette is deployed from the research vessel Sikuliaq during a 2020 expedition as part of the NSF-funded Arctic Observing Network to understand long-term changes in waters of the far north. (Photo ©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Study Finds Growing Potential for Toxic Algal Blooms in the Alaskan Arctic

October 4, 2021
Whaling ship logbooks, like this one, from past centuries contain historical weather data, giving researchers a glimpse of what the climate was like years ago. That data now presents the opportunity to address contemporary questions of climate change. Photo by Jordan Goffin.

Project funded to digitize and mine weather data from whaling logbooks

August 11, 2021
Co-author Sujata Murty retrieving a coral core piece during the underwater drilling process. Photo credit: Justin Ossolinski.

Review Evaluates the Evidence for an Intensifying Indian Ocean Water Cycle

July 20, 2021
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star enters the winter pack ice

A rare mission north

July 7, 2021
RoCS Photo

Science RoCS Initiative responds to need for increased ocean monitoring

June 10, 2021
(© Roger Fishman)

The ocean science-art connection

June 7, 2021
Data Dollies

Data with a side of sass

March 25, 2021
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Amidst pandemic, researchers deploy new monitoring station in tropical Pacific

March 17, 2021
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Tracking change in the Arctic Ocean

February 22, 2021
An ocean network from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will give scientists a comprehensive view of the twilight zone, or mesopelagic, using several different technologies including moored buoys equipped with acoustic survey systems; a swarm of optical and geochemical sensors; and new fish-tracking tags that will continuously record the position of major predators such as sharks and tuna. All of these components will connect to the network’s buoys using acoustic signals underwater and an Iridium satellite link at the surface.

New observation network will provide unprecedented, long-term view of life in the ocean twilight zone

February 8, 2021
The Loop Current (orange) is like a big river of warm water that flows northward from the Caribbean Sea. It sometimes loops up close to Louisiana and then swoops back down through the Florida Straits and into the Atlantic Ocean. (Sea surface temperature image by the Ocean Remote Sensing Group, © Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)

‘High-octane’ hurricane fuel swirls in the Gulf of Mexico

November 10, 2020
Australia satellite image of bushfire

Investigating the ocean’s influence on Australia’s drought

November 10, 2020