WHOI Stories
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WHOI News | August 18, 2013
Newly discovered ocean plume could be major source of iron
Scientists have discovered a vast plume of iron and other micronutrients more than 1,000 km wide billowing from hydrothermal vents in the South Atlantic Ocean. The finding, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, calls past estimates of iron abunda... -
WHOI - Oceanus | August 15, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Carroll & McCartney
A series on the people who reassembled the iconic sub -
WHOI - Oceanus | August 8, 2013
A War of Knowledge to Save Sharks
A graduate student battles to stop shark slaughters in Turkey -
WHOI - Oceanus | August 5, 2013
Swimming with Sharks
An underwater robot learns how to track great whites -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 30, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Kurt Uetz
A series on the people who upgraded the iconic sub -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 25, 2013
Caller IDs for Whales
Crowd-sourcing helps sort marine mammal vocalizations -
WHOI News | July 24, 2013
Summer Shark Research Heats Up at WHOI
White shark tagging expedition sets sail (July 31), Discovery Channel Shark Week segment "The Return of Jaws" features WHOI's REMUS technology (Aug. 5), and WHOI scientists and engineers share latest research at Woods Hole public event (Aug. 7) -
WHOI News | July 19, 2013
First global atlas of marine plankton reveals remarkable underwater world
Under the microscope, they look like they could be from another planet, but these microscopic organisms inhabit the depths of our oceans in nearly infinite numbers. To begin to identify where, when, and how much oceanic plankton can be found around the... -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 17, 2013
Go Down Jason, Let My Mooring Go
A team hustles to rescue a key instrument from the depths -
WHOI News | July 16, 2013
Study Identifies Deepwater Horizon Debris as Likely Source of Gulf of Mexico Oil Sheens
A chemical analysis of oil sheens found floating recently at the ocean’s surface near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster indicates that the source is pockets of oil trapped within the wreckage of the sunken rig. Both the Macondo wel... -
WHOI News | July 14, 2013
Scientists solve a 14,000-year-old ocean mystery
At the end of the last Ice Age, as the world began to warm, a swath of the North Pacific Ocean came to life. During a brief pulse of biological productivity 14,000 years ago, this stretch of the sea teemed with phytoplankton, amoeba-like foraminifera a... -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 12, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Al Suchy
A series on the people who upgraded the iconic sub -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 9, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Dutch Wegman
A series on the people who upgraded the iconic sub -
WHOI News | July 8, 2013
Corals cozy up with bacterial buddies
Corals may let certain bacteria get under its skin, according to a new study by researchers at WHOI and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The study offers the... -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 1, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Patrick Hennessy
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WHOI News | June 27, 2013
Robotic probe launcher may transform ocean data collection
Our understanding of the ocean and its variability relies on the tools ocean scientists deploy to collect data. One tool routinely used is the eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) probe, which is usually deployed by hand one at a time at sea. -
WHOI News | June 27, 2013
Scientists Discover Thriving Colonies of Microbes in Ocean ‘Plastisphere’
Scientists have discovered a diverse multitude of microbes colonizing and thriving on flecks of plastic that have polluted the oceans—a vast new human-made flotilla of microbial communities that they have dubbed the 'plastisphere.' -
WHOI - Oceanus | June 25, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Paul Keith
A series on the people who reassembled the iconic sub -
WHOI - Oceanus | June 19, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Chris Lathan
A series on the people who reassembled the iconic sub -
WHOI News | June 14, 2013
WHOI Welcomes Explorer and Director James Cameron and the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER
On Friday, June 14, filmmaker James Cameron delivered the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the only human-occupied vehicle currently able to access the deepest parts of the ocean, to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Susan Avery, president and director of W...
