WHOI Stories
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WHOI News | January 8, 2014
New Study Finds Extreme Longevity in White Sharks
Great white sharks—top predators throughout the world's ocean—grow much slower and live significantly longer than previously thought, according to a new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). -
WHOI - Oceanus | December 30, 2013
Lush Life, Deep Down
Thriving biodiversity discovered under the seafloor -
WHOI News | December 30, 2013
Online Science Expedition Brings Deep Sea Vents to the Computer Screen
Scientists and engineers using advanced technology and a unique robotic vehicle to study the deep sea will also be using their computers to interact with students, teachers, and the public about the research they are conducting. -
WHOI News | December 18, 2013
New Study Reveals the Biomechanics of How Marine Snail Larvae Swim
Equipped with high-speed, high-resolution video, scientists have discovered important new information on how marine snail larvae swim, a key behavior that determines individual dispersal and ultimately, survival. -
WHOI - Oceanus | December 17, 2013
Behold the ‘Plastisphere’
Colonies of microbes flourish on tiny bits in the ocean -
WHOI - Oceanus | December 12, 2013
Dropping a Laboratory into the Sea
Revolutionary Sensor Detects Toxic Marine Organisms -
WHOI News | December 9, 2013
Study Offers Economical Solutions for Maintaining Critical Delta Environments
A new study by WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan and his colleagues documents the historic sediment record along the Danube River delta, and offers simple and inexpensive strategies to enhance deltas's natural ability to trap sediment and maintain their floo... -
WHOI News | December 5, 2013
WHOI Hosts Talk on ‘To The Denmark Strait’
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will host a talk by author Dallas Murphy and videographer Ben Harden on Friday, December 13, about the new book To The Denmark Strait, which features a firsthand account of a modern oceanographic adventur... -
WHOI News | December 5, 2013
SOI Collaborating with WHOI on World’s Most Advanced Deep-diving Robotic Vehicle
Schmidt Ocean Institute is working with the Deep Submergence Laboratory at WHOI to design and build the world’s most advanced robotic undersea research vehicle for use on SOI’s ship Falkor. Capable of operating in Earth's deepest known tren... -
WHOI - Oceanus | December 4, 2013
Call of the Whales
Underwater robots provide roving ears in the sea -
WHOI - Oceanus | November 26, 2013
The Return of the Seals
Growing Herds Raise Questions on Sharks, Fish, and Poop -
WHOI - Oceanus | November 21, 2013
The Decline and Fall of the Emperor Penguin?
Climate Change and Shrinking Ice Threaten Polar Birds -
WHOI News | November 15, 2013
Woods Hole Oceanographic’s Avery to Serve on United Nations Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Susan Avery, president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has been appointed to a Scientific Advisory Board announced by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. -
WHOI News | October 23, 2013
Dolphins Assist Scientists Studying Effects of Data-logging Tags
For scientists studying marine mammals in the wild, data-logging tags are invaluable tools that allow them to observe animals’ movements and behaviors that are otherwise hidden beneath the waves much of the time. The tags, which temporarily attac... -
WHOI News | October 18, 2013
WHOI Scientists Receive $11.6 Million to Measure Changes in Ocean Circulation
A new five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation will, for the first time, allow scientists to directly measure these ocean pathways over the entire subpolar region of the North Atlantic. Oceanographers from WHOI and their colleagues f... -
WHOI News | October 18, 2013
Seeing in the Dark
The Yangtze finless porpoise, which inhabits the high-traffic waters near the Three Gorges Dam in China, is highly endangered, with only about 1,000 animals alive today. Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their Chinese coll... -
WHOI - Oceanus | September 25, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Elder and Fournier
A series on the people who reassembled the iconic sub -
WHOI News | September 19, 2013
Doney receives A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science
WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney has been awarded the 2013 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science. He will receive the award later this year at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Since 1980, the Royal Societ... -
WHOI News | September 13, 2013
Establishing World-Class Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring in Okinawa
WHOI researchers, working in partnership with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, have developed the Ocean Cube Observatory System, a marine observatory system installed in waters off Motobu Peninsula, Japan -- a b... -
WHOI News | September 12, 2013
Study explores complex physical oceanography in East China Sea
Just days before a team of researchers set out to conduct fieldwork in the East China Sea, Typhoon Morakot—one of the most destructive storms ever to hit Taiwan—made landfall on the island, causing widespread damage and drastically altering...
