WHOI Stories
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WHOI News | December 9, 2015
Galapagos Expedition Reveals Unknown Seamounts, New Species
During a three-week expedition in August, an international team conducted the first scientific expedition to map and characterize the seamounts on the Galápagos platform. -
WHOI News | December 3, 2015
Higher Levels of Fukushima Cesium Detected Offshore
Scientists monitoring the spread of radiation in the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear accident report finding an increased number of contaminated sites off the US West Coast, along with the highest detection level to date. -
WHOI - Oceanus | December 3, 2015
Epiphany Among the Manta Rays
Can we mobilize an army of scuba divers as citizen scientists? -
WHOI - Oceanus | November 23, 2015
Earth’s Riverine Bloodstream
Flowing down rivers are clues to how our whole planet works -
WHOI News | November 18, 2015
Warming Ocean Worsened Australia’s Fatal 2010/2011 Floods
A study by a team of U.S. and Australian researchers shows that long-term warming of the Indian and Pacific oceans played an important role in increasing the severity of the devastating floods that struck Australia in 2010/2011. -
WHOI - Oceanus | November 10, 2015
Ice, Wind and Fury
Scientists investigate the avalanche of winds known as piteraqs -
WHOI - Oceanus | October 29, 2015
Forecasting the Future of Fish
Through comics, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Emily Moberg explains how her research modeling fish populations help improve our understanding of relationships between humans, the ocean, and its resources. -
WHOI News | October 22, 2015
New Study Provides First Field Observations of Rare Omura’s Whales
An international team of biologists has made the first-ever field observations of one of the least known species of whales in the world Omura's whales off the coast of Madagascar. -
WHOI - Oceanus | October 15, 2015
TurtleCam
Exploring the secret life of endangered leatherback turtles -
WHOI News | October 12, 2015
New Study Projects That Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Will Intensify
New research projects a doubling of surface melting of Antarctic ice shelves by 2050 and by 2100 may surpass intensities associated with ice shelf collapse, if greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel consumption continues at the present rate. -
WHOI - Oceanus | October 6, 2015
Tracking a Trail of Carbon
Leaf waxes buried in Lake Titicaca holds clues to once and future climates -
WHOI News | September 30, 2015
Gulf Stream Ring Water Intrudes onto Continental Shelf Like “Pinocchio’s Nose”
Ocean robots installed off the coast of Massachusetts have helped scientists understand a previously unknown process by which warm Gulf Stream water and colder waters of the continental shelf exchange. -
WHOI News | September 28, 2015
Novel Tag Developed for Squid, Jellyfish
A new data-logging tag developed specifically for small and delicate invertebrates not only quantifies ocean conditions but also measures animals’ responses to their physical environments in high resolution. -
WHOI News | September 28, 2015
King Crabs Threaten Antarctic Ecosystem Due to Warming Ocean
King crabs may soon become high-level predators in Antarctic marine ecosystems where they haven't played a role in tens of millions of years, according to a new study. -
WHOI News | September 24, 2015
Marine Archaeologists Excavate Greek Antikythera Shipwreck
Archaeologists excavating the famous ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the Antikythera mechanism have recovered more than 50 items. -
WHOI News | September 24, 2015
WHOI Takes Delivery of New Research Vessel Neil Armstrong
The nation's newest research vessel, the Neil Armstrong, was officially turned over by the U.S. Navy on September 23 to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). -
WHOI - Oceanus | September 3, 2015
The Man Who Opened Our Ears to the Ocean
Historic archive of marine mammal recordings established -
WHOI News | September 1, 2015
Climate Change Will Irreversibly Force Key Ocean Bacteria into Overdrive
Scientists demonstrate that a key organism in the ocean’s food web will start reproducing at high speed as carbon dioxide levels rise, with no way to stop when nutrients become scarce. -
WHOI News | August 31, 2015
Evidence of Ancient Life Discovered in Mantle Rocks Deep Below the Seafloor
Ancient rocks harbored microbial life deep below the seafloor, reports a team of scientists, confirming a long-standing hypothesis that interactions between mantle rocks and seawater can create potential for life even in hard rocks deep below the ocean... -
WHOI - Oceanus | August 24, 2015
Short-circuiting the Biological Pump
Tiny chemical compounds help choreograph a planet-size dance
