WHOI Stories

• News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 18, 2017

  Scientists and Navy Join Forces

  NATO seeks advice to avoid collateral environmental damage
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | January 17, 2017

  Observing and Modeling the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice: A Meeting in Woods Hole

  Last November, a group of MIT researchers joined scientists from around the world to attend the fifth meeting of the Forum for Arctic Modeling & Synthesis (FAMOS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• WHOI - Oceanus | January 11, 2017

  A New Tsunami-warning System

  Scientists devise way to relay sound signals under water
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News, WHOI | January 8, 2017

  Dr. Don Anderson: Using robots to measure toxins in the ocean

  Funded by MIT Sea Grant, Dr. Don Anderson’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and others has developed a robotic system that can monitor blooms of toxic algae and their toxins in real time.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 5, 2017

  Communicating Under Sea Ice

  Engineers use ocean channel to efficiently relay sound
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | January 2, 2017

  Students, academics, and entrepreneurs join forces to tackle the future of water utilities

  Fifth annual MIT Water Summit brings together interdisciplinary panelists to give multiple perspectives on major issues surrounding the water sector.
• News, WHOI, WHOI - Oceanus | December 28, 2016

  All the Ocean’s a Stage

  First impressions of my first research cruise
• News, WHOI - Oceanus | December 23, 2016

  What Happened to Deepwater Horizon Oil?

  Did dispersants help microbes break down oil?
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | December 20, 2016

  From the Historical Exploitation of Resources to a Modern Academic Understanding: Massachusetts and the Arctic

  Driven by a need for understanding, Massachusetts scientists have played a key role in directing America's relationship with the Arctic since the whaling years.
• News, WHOI, WHOI News | December 16, 2016

  Salty Oceans Can Forecast Rain on Land

  Scientists report on new mechanism for seasonal rainfall prediction
• News, WHOI, WHOI News | December 15, 2016

  Stan Hart Receives AGU’s Highest Honor

  Stan Hart, WHOI scientist emeritus, has been awarded the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) highest honor, the William Bowie Medal. The Honors Tribute was held on Wednesday, 14 December 2016, at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
• MIT, News, WHOI - Oceanus | December 14, 2016

  New Device Reveals What Ocean Microbes Do

  Instrument may also help monitor sewage treatment plants
• News, WHOI News | December 8, 2016

  Some Fish Quickly Adapt to Lethal Levels of Pollution

  Killifish living in four polluted East Coast estuaries have adapted to survive levels of toxic industrial pollutants that would normally kill them, tolerating concentrations up to 8,000 times higher than sensitive fish. A new study reveals the complex genetic basis for the Atlantic killifish’s remarkable resilience.
• News, WHOI News | December 7, 2016

  New Studies Take a Second Look at Coral Bleaching Culprit

  A new study from WHOI indicates that superoxide -- a natural toxin believed to be the main culprit behind coral bleaching -- may actually play a beneficial role in coral health and resilience.
• News, WHOI, WHOI - Oceanus | December 5, 2016

  To Track a Sea Turtle

  Underwater vehicles follow tagged turtles in the wild
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | November 23, 2016

  Saharan Dust in the Wind

  Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.
• News, WHOI News | November 23, 2016

  WHOI Geologist Henry Dick Named AAAS 2016 Fellow

  Henry Dick of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon association members by their peers.
• News, WHOI - Oceanus | November 22, 2016

  Woman on Board

  A conversation with WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue
• News, WHOI News | November 17, 2016

  New Study Explains Mysterious Source of Greenhouse Gas Methane in the Ocean

  A new study may have cracked the longstanding “marine methane paradox,” finding that the answer may lie in the complex ways that bacteria break down substances excreted into seawater by living organisms.
• WHOI News | November 10, 2016

  WHOI Scientist Receives Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Award

  The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation selected Mak Saito, a biogeochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), as one of eight awardees of a 2016 Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry grant.