Research Highlights
Oceanus Magazine
Why would I choose to spend my years in graduate school up to my elbows in foul-smelling whale blubber? To explore how some of the most notorious man-made pollutants reach dangerous concentrations in large predators, even when concentrations of these…
The spiral secrets of mammals? hearing abilities Whispering galleries are curious features of circular buildings. As whispers travel along the buildings’ curved walls, they remain loud enough to be heard clearly on the other end of even a large room.…
When you spend 40 days on a ship in the South Atlantic, enduring equipment failures, icebergs, and the occasional surly shipmate, you should at least get to see a few penguins for your trouble. But when Naomi Levine went to…
For generations of mariners, a tangy, almost sweet odor served as a signal that land was nearby. What sailors called “the smell of the shore” had the opposite meaning to landlubbers, who would catch the same sweet scent wafting over…
News Releases
A series of seemingly small processes helps carry carbon dioxide from the ocean’s surface to the deep sea, where it can be stored away for decades.
A newly published article spells out the work needed to assess the potential of ocean iron fertilization as a low cost, scalable, and rapidly deployable method of mCDR.
Change was made in response to changing ship availability and to resulting changes in ocean conditions later in the year
What species live in this coral reef, and are they healthy? Chemical clues emitted by marine organisms might hold that information
In his new book, A Kids Book About Being a Scientist, award-winning author and WHOI chemist Chris Reddy encourages young people to explore the world around them
News & Insights
WHOI marine radiochemist Ken Buesseler weighs in on the discharge of wastewater from Fukushima
WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy weighs in on a methane leak in the Baltic Sea
In case you missed it… From plastic to oil spills, experts discuss ways to control ocean pollution in our last Ocean Encounters
An op-ed in the national news outlet The Hill by WHOI senior scientist Ken Buesseler reinforces the power and importance of the ocean in carbon dioxide removal strategies
