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Ocean Encounters: Becoming a Marine Biologist
As a child, who hasn’t dreamed of exploring the ocean to study the amazing animals that live there—but what does it take to become a marine biologist, and what would your career look like once you got the degree?
Read MoreRare look at animals in the ocean twilight zone
The ocean is so vast that it can be hard for scientists to find the species they want to study. That’s why two ocean robots are better than one for capturing these rarely-seen glimpses of twilight zone animals!
Read MoreOcean Encounters: The Arctic
The 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 rest of our planet.
Read MoreWHOI robotics class sets sail
A few lucky Massachusetts high school students charted a new course during a robotics class with WHOI engineers Molly Curran and Fran Elder aboard the Sea Education Association sailing school vessel Corwith Cramer. Find out what they learned during this spring vacation course!
Read MoreHenry Bryant Bigelow
The strength of WHOI’s science is in its people.
Read MoreA tale of two schooners
Following a 1902 collision off the Massachusetts coast, the coal schooners Frank A. Palmer and the Louise B. Crary now exist as one intertwined wreck, captured by here side-scan sonar in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Read MoreConservation matters
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.”
Read MoreCrossata alba jellyfish
Delicate jellyfish such as this Crossota alba thrive in the Ocean Twilight Zone, where no wind, waves, or turbulence can tear them apart. In spite of their fragility, these gelatinous animals are often successful predators
Read MoreAlbert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian-born scientist who spent much of his career at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. He won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his research […]
Read MoreSphere implosion
A crushed subsurface flotation sphere is pulled from the Southern Atlantic Ocean in 2018. As part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Global Argentine Basin Array, the sphere was part of […]
Read More50 Researchers, One Question: Ocean Animals
As oceanographers, we are constantly searching for answers, but the ocean is vast and very difficult to study. What if we could talk to those who call the ocean home? What would you ask them?
Read MoreTop predator loss of habitat?
A study published in Science Advances by researchers at WHOI, San Diego State University, and NOAA Fisheries Service sounds an alarm bell for fisheries management in the Northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Led by WHOI marine ecologist Camrin Braun, the researchers predict that economically and ecologically important marine predators (sharks, tuna, and billfish) will lose or shift away from up to 70% of their current habitat due to climate-driven warming of the ocean. Learn more at go.whoi.edu/fish-habitat-loss
Read MoreNever Turn Your Back on the Ocean
Mai huli ‘oe I kokua o ke kai!
This Hawaiian proverb, meaning “never turn your back on the ocean” was popularized by Olympic swimmer and surfer Duke Kahanamoku. It has reminded […]
Read MoreSpitsbergen Walruses
While observing walrus from the shore of Amsterdam Island in Spitsbergen, Norway, several males kept coming closer to the photographer, Aurora Lampson.
“It seemed like they were just as curious of […]
Read MoreCoral Landscape
It’s not a mountain landscape viewed from above. It’s actually Pavona varians, or “corrugated coral,” photographed under a microscope! This hard-skeleton coral sends tiny white filaments out to snare and […]
Read MoreAlbert Einstein
The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existence.
-Albert Einstein
R/V Atlantis recognized by US Coast Guard
In the early morning hours of October 28, 2022, the WHOI research vessel Atlantis responded to a mayday call from a commercial fishing boat sinking off the coast of Virginia. […]
Read MoreWHOI President and Director Peter de Menocal dives in Alvin
WHOI President and Director Peter de Menocal took his first dive in the research submersible Alvin on August 2, joined by Janis Coughlin-Piester, Chief Financial Officer and Office Head for […]
Read MoreMia and Molly: Between Two Robots
You’ve seen the comedy talk show Between Two Ferns. Now check out BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, where kids grill #WHOI scientists about the #OceanTwilightZone.
Read MoreMia and Kaitlyn: Between Two Robots
You’ve seen the comedy talk show Between Two Ferns. Now check out BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, where kids grill #WHOI scientists about the #OceanTwilightZone.
Read MoreMarlon and Ciara: Between Two Robots
You’ve seen the comedy talk show Between Two Ferns. Now check out BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, where kids grill #WHOI scientists about the #OceanTwilightZone.
Read MoreMarlon and Dana: Between Two Robots
You’ve seen the comedy talk show Between Two Ferns. Now check out BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS, where kids grill #WHOI scientists about the #OceanTwilightZone. In this episode, Marlon interviews #WHOI engineer Dana Yoerger, a/k/a the “father of Mesobot,” about what this yellow deep-sea robot tastes like… and what it sees in the dimly-lit #OceanTwilightZone.
Read MoreOcean: Impossible | Meet ChemYak
The deep ocean is a cold, dark, vast, and frankly, dangerous place for human beings. That’s why we need ocean robots to help us– in some cases, guide us– on our quest to explore the depths.
Read MoreOcean: Impossible | Meet CUREE
The deep ocean is a cold, dark, vast, and frankly, dangerous place for human beings. That’s why we need ocean robots to help us– in some cases, guide us– on our quest to explore the depths.
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