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Illustration of Alexandrium life cycle Red tide research
Illustration of Alexandrium life cycle. (Illustration by Jack Cook, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreIllustration showing the approximate flight path of Air France flight 447
Map shows the approximate flight path of the ill-fated Air France Flight 447. (Illustration by Amy Caracappa-Qubeck, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreIllustration depicting air-sea daily rhythm
At the ocean surface, heat and energy is exchanged between the air above and the water below. Every day, the sun rises and warms a thin layer of surface water. […]
Read MoreIllustration depicting Air-Sea exchanges
Air-Sea Exchanges. The sea surface loses heat via several different constantly occurring processes. (Illustration by Amy Caracappa-Qubeck, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreIllustration depicting how biomagnification works
Illustration depicting how biomagnification works. (Illustration by E. Paul Oberlander, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreIllustration explaining the existence of ancient vent microbes
Scientists have found evidence that microbes thrive deep below the seafloor. They are sustained by chemicals that are produced when seawater percolates down and reacts with rocks found in Earths […]
Read MoreHow antibacterial resistant bacteria spreads resistance
From Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 2, pg. 26. (Illustration by Natalie Renier, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreHow blue holes are formed
How blue holes are formed. (Illustration by Eric S. Taylor, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreIcy wind blows from the Antarctic Continent
Antarctic Bottom Waters Freshening at Unexpected Rate. (Illustration by Eric S. Taylor, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreIlllustration depicting Air-sea exchange mechanisms
Imagine you turn on the tap in the morning and water pummels out and spills over your sink. Later you go out to your garden, but water trickles feebly out […]
Read MoreDrawing of Timoides agassizii by Henry Bigelow
Pioneering marine biologist Henry Bryant Bigelow served as the founding director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 1930 to 1939. Almost three decades earlier, when Bigelow was an undergraduate at […]
Read MoreCarbon-14 natural cycle
Carbon-14 natural cycle. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreCross-section of an anticyclonic eddy, warm core ring used for food sourcing
Sharks and other large predators may be using swirling pockets of unusually warm water to access food in the ocean twilight zone. In a recent study, researchers from WHOI and […]
Read MoreCurrents in the Arctic region
Currents in the Arctic region. (Illustration by Jack Cook, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreAntarctic ecosystem
Originally drawn for Peter Wiebe in Oceanus Magazine, vol. 43, no. 2, 2005. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreAntarctic ecosystem, summer environment
Antarctic ecosystem, summer environment. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreAntarctic ecosystem, winter environment
Antarctic ecosystem, winter environment. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreAntarctic Ecosystem, winter season
Antarctic ecosystem. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreArctic currents map
Arctic currents map. (Illustration by Jack Cook, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreArctic ecosystem
Originally drawn for Carin Ashjian in Oceanus Magazine, vol. 43, no. 2, 2005. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read MoreArctic ecosystem, no text, including human
Arctic ecosystem. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Read More“How Climate Change Spurred the Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilizations”
Climate change particularly changes in the monsoonprompted dramatic changes in how the peoples of ancient India lived. WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Camilo Ponton, and colleagues gathered […]
Read More“Pinocchio’s Nose” effect of pinched off rotating warm core rings
Rotating warm core rings form in the deep ocean and eventually pinch off from the Gulf Stream, heading in a northwest direction onto the shallower continental slope. The outer limbs […]
Read MoreSatellite image showing Pinocchio’s Nose warm water intrusion along the Shelf
In 2014, satellite imagery revealed an elongated body of warm Gulf Stream water pushing onto the edge of New England's continental shelf toward the southwest. Scientists have seen similar phenomena […]
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