WHOI Stories
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Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | March 31, 2017
Embrace Who You Are: One Latina Scientist’s Brave Journey in STEM
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Gabi Serrato Marks profiles her colleague, Gabriela Farfan, about her dream of becoming a mineralogist and her experiences with culture and identity along the way. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | March 30, 2017
Institute Award for the Love of Marine Chemistry
MIT-WHOI student Lauren Kipp to receive a Graduate Teaching Award -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | March 23, 2017
Corals Die as Global Warming Collides with Local Weather in the South China Sea
New research highlights the devastation caused when global-scale ocean warming interacts with short-lived weather anomalies, and adds urgency to the question of how reefs will fare through the end of this century. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 21, 2017
Understanding Ocean Changes
The story of a unique partnership between commercial fishermen and scientists. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 21, 2017
Scientist-Fisherman Partnership
Collaboration spurs mutual benefits for research and industry -
MIT, News, WHOI | March 20, 2017
World’s Lakes May be Much Shallower than Previously Thought
New mathematical analysis from MIT provides more accurate estimate of the depth and volume of the Earth's lakes, Adrian Cho of Science Magazine reports. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 15, 2017
Eavesdropping on Whales
Acoustic buoy could one day help ships avoid collisions -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 3, 2017
Why Did the El Faro Sink?
Deep-sea vehicles locate data recorder on the seafloor -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | March 2, 2017
Taking Earth’s Inner Temperature
A new WHOI study suggests the mantle -- the mostly solid, rocky part of Earth's interior that lies between its super-heated core and its outer crustal layer -- may be hotter than previously believed. -
News, WHOI News | March 1, 2017
A New Long-Term Ecological Research Site Announced for the Northeast U.S. Shelf
To better understand and manage the intricate ecosystem off the Northeast U.S. coast, the National Science Foundation has announced the selection of this critical ocean region for a new Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site led by WHOI. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 24, 2017
After Overhaul, Jason Is Stronger Than Ever
Deep-sea vehicle is stripped down, redesigned, and upgraded -
News, WHOI News | February 17, 2017
Panel to Discuss Deep-Sea Mining at AAAS Meeting
At AAAS, panel of speakers will examine the pros and cons of seafloor mining, its engineering feasibility, and its legal and societal implications with the goal of providing the best available, objective, scientific evidence to inform ongoing policy efforts on this important and timely topic. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 14, 2017
A Big Decline of River Herring
Tiny stones in fish hold clues to help restore populations -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 8, 2017
More Floods & Higher Sea Levels
Geological records help forecast escalating coastal hazards -
News, WHOI News | February 6, 2017
Study Provides First Measurement of Nitrogen Removal by Local Shellfish
A new study by Woods Hole Sea Grant, Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, and the Mashpee Department of Natural Resources provides the first comprehensive measurement of nitrogen removed by shellfish harvested from waters off Cape Cod. -
WHOI News | February 2, 2017
Town of Falmouth and WHOI Win Seaport Economic Council Grant
At a meeting Thursday in Fall River, members of the Massachusetts Seaport Economic Council (SEC) green-lighted a $500,000 grant request from the Town of Falmouth and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). -
News, WHOI | January 31, 2017
ExxonMobil Adds Climate Expert to Its Board
Atmospheric scientist and former president and director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Susan Avery has been elected to the board of directors of the ExxonMobil Corporation. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 30, 2017
Eavesdropping on Shrimp’s Snap Chat
Tiny animals dominate the undersea soundscape -
MIT, News, WHOI | January 27, 2017
Tiny Creatures Form Massive, Bright Ring Around Antarctica
Dense algae populations in the Great Calcite Belt could cause carbon dioxide release from the ocean into the atmosphere. -
News, WHOI News | January 25, 2017
Antarctic Bottom Waters Freshening at Unexpected Rate
Shift could disturb ocean circulation and hasten sea level rise, researchers say.
