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• Featured Stories | February 15, 2016

  Chasing Whales

  Thanks a variety of robotic instruments, researchers are using information about whale behavior to decrease ship strikes and other human-caused mortality events.
• Featured Stories | February 8, 2016

  Predators in the Plankton

  WHOI researcher Matt Johnson studies three plankton species that illustrate just how wonderfully weird and complex life in the ocean can be.
• MIT - The Darwin Project | February 5, 2016

  Darwin Goes to Ocean Sciences 2016

  Look out for the Darwin team sharing their work at this year's Ocean Sciences conference, February 21-26 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Featured Stories | February 3, 2016

  AGU Spotlights MIT Synthesis of Ocean Circulation Research

  A new MIT study takes stock of what we know and what’s still uncertain about AMOC variability and its role in global climate.
• Featured Stories, MIT News | February 1, 2016

  Living a “Mixotrophic” Lifestyle

  MIT News reports on a new study that suggests plankton may have a larger impact on ocean carbon storage than previously thought. Read it here.
• Featured Stories | January 28, 2016

  John Marshall Receives AMS Haurwitz Prize

  MIT Oceanographer honored by AMS for his seminal contributions to atmospheric, oceanic, and climate dynamics and the creation of innovative modeling tools and educational resources.
• WHOI News | January 28, 2016

  Can animals thrive without oxygen?

  A research team garnered attention in 2010 when it published evidence of finding the first animals living in permanently anoxic conditions at the ocean bottom. Now a new study, led by WHOI scientists, raises doubts.
• WHOI - Oceanus | January 27, 2016

  Seal Whiskers Inspire Marine Technology

  By observing nature, biomimetic engineer designs new sensor
• WHOI News | January 21, 2016

  Study Reveals Climate Change Impacts on Buzzards Bay

  An analysis of long-term, water quality monitoring data reveals that climate change is already having an impact on ecosystems in the coastal waters of Buzzards Bay, Mass. These impacts relate to how nitrogen pollution affects coastal ecosystems.
• Featured Stories | January 15, 2016

  MIT on Climate, Science, and Action

  MIT Climate Symposium will bring together leading researchers and science communicators to discuss the science, economics, and policy of the most pressing issue of our time.
• MITgcm News | January 15, 2016

  2015 Research Roundup

  Another new year, another research roundup! Best wishes to MITgcmers past, MITgcmers present and MITgcmers yet to come...
• MIT Sea Grant | January 14, 2016

  Planning for Climate Change Impacts on Shellfish in Wellfleet Harbor

  MIT Sea Grant's web developer, Ben Bray, and Social and Environmental Research Institute Research Fellow, Seth Tuler, P.h.D, created a website to showcase the potential impacts of climate change on shellfish and shellfishing in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The website provides an overview of the climate-related threats to shellfish and commercial shellfishing in Wellfleet Harbor and potential strategies that can be considered by the Town of Wellfleet to prevent and mitigate their impacts.
• WHOI - Oceanus | January 13, 2016

  HABCAM

  HABitat mapping CAMera system is a window on the seafloor
• WHOI News | January 8, 2016

  Robotic Vehicles Offer a New Tool in Study of Shark Behavior

  THe REMUS SharkCam has enabled groundbreaking scientific understanding of great white sharks.
• Featured Stories | December 21, 2015

  Best of Oceans at MIT 2015

  Happy New Year from Oceans at MIT! Here's our top 15 stories from 2015. Related topics | Oceans and Climate | A Warming World
• WHOI - Oceanus | December 21, 2015

  How Did Earth Get Its Ocean?

  A student's quest to learn the origin of our planet's water.
• Featured Stories | December 18, 2015

  At COP21, Finding Hope for Climate in the Aerocene

  Artist Tomás Saraceno and MIT scientists join forces to confront climate crisis at UN conference. Related topics |Human Influences | A Warming World
• WHOI - Oceanus | December 15, 2015

  Specks in the Spectrometer

  An atomic odyssey from the Great Calcite Belt to a data point
• WHOI News | December 9, 2015

  Study Measures Drag from Fishing Gear Entanglements on North Atlantic Right Whales

  In a paper published online Dec. 9, 2015, in Marine Mammal Science, a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has for the first time quantified the amount of drag on entangled whales that is created by towing fishing gear.
• WHOI News | December 9, 2015

  Galapagos Expedition Reveals Unknown Seamounts, New Species

  During a three-week expedition in August, an international team conducted the first scientific expedition to map and characterize the seamounts on the Galápagos platform.