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MIT Sea Grant | April 24, 2013
Updated Northeast Ocean Data Website provides enhanced support for regional ocean planning.
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MIT, MIT EAPS | April 22, 2013
The Secret Lives of Researchers – Chasing Salt
MIT-WHOI Joint Program grad student, physical oceanographer Alec Bogdanoff on, among other research secrets, a new use for bungee cords. -
WHOI News | April 22, 2013
Experts Call for Network to Monitor Marine Biodiversity
A group of oceanographic experts is calling for the establishment of a national network to monitor the diversity of marine life, a key bellwether of ocean and human health. Their work is described in the April 11 issue of BioScience. -
WHOI - Oceanus | April 19, 2013
Decoding the Mystery Fish
Scientists delve into the genome of the African coelacanth -
MIT, MIT EAPS | April 18, 2013
Darwin Goes Bicoastal
At San Francisco's new Exploratorium Museum, the Darwin Project-based interactive plankton table is sure to be a crowd pleaser. -
WHOI - Oceanus | April 16, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Loral O’Hara
A series on the people reassembling the iconic sub -
WHOI - Oceanus | April 12, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Rick Sanger
A series on the people reassembling the iconic sub -
MIT, MIT EAPS | April 10, 2013
Islands in the Rain
Taylor Perron's Surface Processes Group on using volcanic islands to measure how rainfall sets the pace of landscape formation. -
WHOI News | April 10, 2013
Research Enables Fishermen to Harvest Lucrative Shellfish on Georges Bank
New scientific understanding of toxic algal blooms on Georges Bank, along with an at-sea and dockside testing protocol, has allowed fishermen to harvest ocean quahogs and surf clams in these offshore waters for the first time in more than two decades. ... -
WHOI - Oceanus | April 9, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Timothy Kling
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Featured Stories, MIT, WHOI | April 5, 2013
Sparks Fly as Art and Science Collide in “Ocean Stories”: A Review
Related topics |Human Influences | Oceans and Climate -
WHOI - Oceanus | April 4, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Brian Pepin
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WHOI News | April 3, 2013
An Ancient Biosonar Sheds New Light on the Evolution of Echolocation in Toothed Whales
New research, led by WHOI postdoctoral fellow Frants Havmand Jensen, shows that freshwater dolphins produce echolocation sounds at very low sound intensities compared to marine dolphins, and that the endangered Ganges river dolphins echolocate at surpr... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | April 2, 2013
Opinion: Climate change as an intergenerational problem
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Carl Wunsch and co-authors argue that climate science requires a long-term commitment. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | April 2, 2013
Irreversible Does Not Mean Unavoidable
Susan Solomon and Damon Matthews of Concordia University make the case that policymakers, the media, and to some extent the public have misunderstood the implications of two key concepts of climate change — the “irreversibility” of climate change... -
WHOI - Oceanus | April 2, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Will Sellers
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WHOI - Oceanus | March 28, 2013
Ceramics Meets Marine Biology at WHOI
Art students visit scientists for information and inspiration -
MIT, MIT EAPS | March 27, 2013
Should scientists be held accountable if their predictions are wrong?
If you missed the recent Aquila Earthquake event at the MIT Museum, it's on techTV. -
WHOI News | March 26, 2013
Explorer and Filmmaker James Cameron Gives DEEPSEA CHALLENGER Sub to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
On the one-year anniversary of Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron’s unprecedented solo dive to the Challenger Deep in the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible, Cameron and WHOI announce he will transfer the sub to Woods Hole. The transfer i... -
WHOI News | March 25, 2013
Researchers Issue Forecast for ‘Moderate’ New England Red Tide in 2013
New England is expected to experience a “moderate” red tide this spring and summer, report NOAA-funded scientists studying the toxic algae that cause blooms in the Gulf of Maine. Red tide is caused by an alga Alexandrium fundyense, which pr...
