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Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | October 23, 2017
River herring resource use in natural and restored Massachusetts estuaries
In this video, MIT Sea Grant has teamed up with the Massachusetts Bays National Estuary Program (MassBays) to characterize the benefits of MassBays priority embayments in support of local river herring populations. -
News, WHOI News | October 23, 2017
WHOI Led Research Team Receives Funding to Develop Ocean Temperature Forecast System
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and other institutions were awarded a competitive federal grant from the NOAA to develop a forecast system that will predict seasonal and year-to-year changes in ocean temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Shelf. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | October 19, 2017
New Air-Launched Devices Help Study Hurricanes
ALAMO floats collect key ocean data to improve storm forecasts -
News, WHOI News | October 17, 2017
Jim Ledwell Selected as a Fellow of The Oceanography Society
The Emeritus Research Scholar at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is best known for pioneering the use of perfluorinated tracers to study ocean mixing and circulation, driven largely by the need to understand the role of the ocean in Earth’s climate system. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News | October 16, 2017
Environmental Successes: How We Can Make Them Happen Again
Atmospheric scientist Susan Solomon speaks with Living Lab Radio/WGBH about our track record of environmental success stories that deserve more attention. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | October 16, 2017
SCARF 2017: A Modern-Day Transatlantic Crossing
Graduate student Hannah Mark reflects on the SCARF (Student-led Cruise Along a Ridge Flowline) voyage as they crossed the Atlantic from the Azores to Woods Hole. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | October 16, 2017
Hydrogel that Extracts Uranium from Water Wins MADMEC
Teams developing materials solutions for ships and buildings split second and third prizes. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | October 10, 2017
Who’s Who? Who’s New?
MIT-WHOI Joint Program members Kevin Archibald, Camrin Braun, Christina Hernandez, and Andrew Hirzel join the EAPS department's as its first Biological Oceanography graduate students. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | October 10, 2017
Study Identifies Whale Blow Microbiome
A new study by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues identified for the first time an extensive conserved group of bacteria within healthy humpback whales' blow—the moist breath that whales spray out of their blowholes when they exhale. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | October 4, 2017
Fueling the Future
WHOI Awarded $5.7M to Advance Seaweed Energy Production -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | October 2, 2017
Scientists Find New Source of Radioactivity from Fukushima Disaster
Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated—in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away. The sands took up and retained radioactive cesium originating from the disaster in 2011 and have been slowly releasing it back to the ocean. -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | September 30, 2017
A Small Ocean Acidification Sensor Could Serve a Large Need
Dr. Aleck Wang, a MIT Sea Grant funded scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution designed the Channelized Optical System (CHANOS) II, the first DIC sensor that can make near-continuous measurements, allowing researchers a picture into how these variables change over spatial scales as small as a centimeter -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | September 22, 2017
Technique Spots Warning Signs of Extreme Events
Method may help predict hotspots of instability affecting climate, aircraft performance, and ocean circulation. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 21, 2017
What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?
MIT prominent meteorologist and climate scientist Kerry Emanuel discusses projections of changing hurricane activity over the rest of this century and what such projections tell us about how the probabilities of hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have already changed and are likely to continue to do so. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | September 21, 2017
Mathematics Predicts a Sixth Mass Extinction
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 20, 2017
Deep Waters Spiral Upward Around Antarctica
New research reveals upwelling pathways and timescales of deep, overturning waters in the Southern Ocean. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | September 13, 2017
WHOI To Present Public Scientific Symposium In Spanish & Portuguese
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to host its first bilingual (Spanish/Portuguese) ocean science symposium, “Oceanos: WHOI en Español e Português”, arranged by MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, Gabriela Farfan, and WHOI research assistant Luis Valentin-Alvarado. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 7, 2017
“EarthArt” exhibit at Hayden Library
See your art and data displayed on the illuminated iGlobe -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | September 7, 2017
Back to School 2017
MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences welcomes 28 new graduate students. Sixteen join the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate; fourteen, the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. -
News, WHOI News | September 6, 2017
WHOI Hosts Bilingual Science Symposium
The symposium, “OCEANOS: WHOI en Español e Português,” will feature short presentations in Spanish and Portuguese about marine and related research by students and scientists from WHOI and other science institutions in Woods Hole, Mass for the general public.
