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Did you know ocean robots use AI?
Did you know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help us learn more about the ocean? Next-gen robots equipped with AI can cover more area, gather more data, and make decisions […]
Read MoreDigital Reefs: Enabling the Industrial Metaverse with MIT Technology Review
On June 12, 2023, Digital Reefs principal investigator Anne Cohen presented her vision for a technologically supported future of decision-making for coral reefs at “Enabling the Industrial Metaverse.” The live […]
Read MoreEdie Widder
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring!
Read MoreA sensor to monitor acid in the ocean
Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making the ocean more acidic and less hospitable to shelled marine life. At WHOI, scientists Jennie Rheuban, Aleck Wang, MIT-WHOI joint program student […]
Read MoreRobert Ballard
The deep sea has more history in it than all the museums in the world, combined.
Read MoreKatharine Lee Bates
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea.
Read MoreRalph Waldo Emerson
Alain Gerbault
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.
Read MoreYvon Woappi
By opening gates, we send the message that STEMM is for all and can be done well only when all of us are welcome.
Read MoreJames Cameron
The ocean is vast, and to explore it, we need to use every kind of tool.
Read MoreAn undersea profiling robot
Sea-going robots can travel on their own for weeks at a time, gathering critical information that helps us understand things like the ocean’s carbon cycle. But despite their considerable powers, […]
Read MoreWHOI Land Acknowledgement
We collectively acknowledge that Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is located on the unceded ancestral and contemporary land of the Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) peoples. We acknowledge the Mashpee, Aquinnah, Herring Pond, and […]
Read MoreOcean Encounters: Robots
Find out how researchers are using increasingly sophisticated autonomous and remotely operated technologies to explore extreme environments, respond to crises, help at-risk ecosystems, and much more.
Read MoreNeil Armstrong
Geologists have a saying: rocks remember.
Read MoreJimmy Buffett
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all.
Read MoreCoral reef discovered in the Galápagos Marine Reserve with Alvin
In April 2023, scientists diving in the human-occupied submersible Alvin discovered extensive, ancient deep-sea coral reefs within the Galápagos Marine Reserve.
Read MoreJulia Whitty
The more we look, the more we learn that everything arises from the sea and everything falls away to the sea, and the deep blue home is home to every […]
Read MoreBoston/New England Regional Emmy® Award Nominations
The Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) has announced the nominees for the 46th annual regional Emmy® Awards and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has been nominated in TWO categories for our videos “Hope for Corals In Crisis” and “Give Reefs a Chance.”
Read MoreSylvia Earle
With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you’re connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
Read MoreSir David Attenborough
Surely we have a responsibility to leave for future generations a planet that is healthy and habitable by all species.
Read MoreStephen Hawking
Real science can be far stranger than science fiction – and much more satisfying.
Read MoreOcean Encounters: Ocean Plastics
Plastics are one of the most common substances in everyday life, found in everything from toothbrushes to cell towers. Now they have spread throughout the ocean, with surprising–and costly–consequences for us and for our ocean planet.
Read MoreGordon Lill
The Ocean’s bottom is at least as important to us as the moon’s behind.
Read MoreSwim alongside a Right Whale and her calf
On Monday, March 27, 2023, Spindle, an approximately 41-year-old North Atlantic right whale, was spotted in Cape Cod Bay with her calf. A new video from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, New England Aquarium, and Whale & Dolphin Conservation, shows the calf suckling, or feeding, as it swims under its mother.
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