Upcoming Events
OCEAN ENCOUNTERS VIRTUAL SERIES: Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale
The next WHOI Ocean Encounters virtual series will be held on Wednesday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. This event is titled Saving the North Atlantic Right Whale. Featured speakers are Michael Moore, Whale Trauma Specialist, WHOI; Rob Martin, Commercial Fisherman; and Michael Asaro, Ecological Economist, NOAA Fisheries. The North Atlantic right whale is one of…
Ocean Encounters Virtual Series: Radiation: In Our Ocean, Our Planet, and Our Lives
Ken Buesseler, WHOI; Shaheen Azim Dewji, Texas A&M University; and Ryo Morimoto, Princeton University Sponsored by: WHOI This will be held virtually. Register here: https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cLPbOushRNuEVdR7ybJyEQ We live on a radioactive planet. With the 10th anniversary of the accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, we take a look at the radiation all…
Ocean Encounters Virtual Series: Weirdly Wonderful: Creatures of the Twilight Zone
Heidi Sosik, WHOI Joel Llopiz, WHOI Vincent Pieribone, OceanX Host: Véronique LaCapra, WHOI Dive with us into the ocean twilight zone—the weirdest place on Earth. This vast, dark, barely explored layer of the ocean is home to countless weirdly wonderful creatures whose uniqueness also gives them superpowers to survive in a world of darkness, extreme…
WHOI Ocean Encounters Virtual Event: From the Sea to the Stars: Women Engineering for Ocean and Space Exploration
Speakers include: Anna Michel, Chief Scientist, NDSF, WHOI Loral O' Hara, NASA Astronaut, and former WHOI engineer Gwyneth Packard, Senior Engineer, Software, WHOI Kaitlyn Tradd, Research Engineer, Mechanical, WHOI Special Guest Host: Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI climate scientist and Associate Director of Research Strategy This will be held virtually. To register, please visit: https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-encounters-registration/ This…
Ocean Encounters: From the Sea to the Stars: Women engineering for ocean and space exploration
From the Sea to the Stars: the Sea Women engineering for ocean and space exploration Speakers: Anna Michel, Chief Scientist, NDSF, WHOI, Loral O' Hara, NASA Astronaut, and former WHOI engineer, Gwyneth Packard, Senior Engineer, Software, WHOI, Kaitlyn Tradd, Research Engineer, Mechanical, WHOI with special guest host Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI climate scientist and Associate…
Ocean Encounters Virtual Series: Antarctica!
The next WHOI Ocean Encounters virtual series will be held on Wednesday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. This event is titled “Antarctica!” Antarctica and the Southern Ocean make up the most remote part of our planet. Learn how changes happening in this harsh and distant place matter to us all. Featured speakers are. Jamie Coleman,…
WHOI Ocean Encounters: Giving Reefs a Chance: How Science and Technology Can Help Corals in Crisis
Speakers: Yogesh Girdhar, Robotics x Oceans x AI, WHOI, and Colleen Hansel, Marine Biogeochemist, WHOI Coral reefs are in trouble. We have already lost more than half of the world’s…
Ocean Encounters: Robots! How New Technologies are Advancing Ocean Research, Exploration, and Science-Based Solutions
Virtual EventThe next WHOI Ocean Encounters virtual series will be held on Wednesday, May 24 at 7:30 p.m. This event is titled “Robots! How New Technologies are Advancing Ocean Research, Exploration,…
Ocean Encounters: The Arctic Our – planet on thin ice
Virtual EventThe far north is feeling the heat from climate change more than anywhere else on Earth, with rising temperatures and melting ice putting increasing pressure on marine life, ocean currents, and human lives and livelihoods. Join us as we talk with scientists studying Earth’s northernmost regions and learn how changes in the Arctic affect the…
UPCOMING “OCEAN ENCOUNTERS” VIRTUAL EVENT
VirtualOn Wednesday, May 22 at 7:30 p.m., join WHOI’s Julie Huber, marine microbiologist & senior scientist; WHOI’s Heidi Sosik, plankton ecologist & senior scientist; and WHOI’s Nina Yang, biological oceanographer & postdoctoral investigator, for a virtual event titled: “Small but Mighty: Microscopic Marine Life and its Outsized Role in the Ocean.” Microbes and plankton may…