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WHOI - Oceanus | January 30, 2014
WHOI CSI Lab Investigates Rare Whales
Computerized Scanning and Imaging lab gets unusual double case -
WHOI News | January 28, 2014
Radioactive Ocean Website a Success
With concern among the public over the plume of radioactive ocean water from Fukushima arriving on the West Coast of North America and no U.S. government or international plan to monitor it, a new project from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI... -
MIT Sea Grant | January 27, 2014
Funding Opportunity: NOAA Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program
The Federal Funding Opportunity has been announced for the NOAA Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program 2014 competition. Funding Opportunity Number: NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987; Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 11.417, Sea Grant S... -
Featured Stories | January 24, 2014
Deeper Submergence: WHOI Launches the Center for Marine Robotics
Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems -
WHOI News | January 24, 2014
Deep-Diving Sub Alvin Cleared to Return to Service
After a three-year overhaul and major upgrade, the United States' deepest-diving research submersible, Alvin, has been cleared to return to work exploring the ocean’s depths. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 23, 2014
Reading Ocean Waves to Predict Ground Shaking in Earthquakes
Seismologist Germán Prieto and co-authors show a rupture of the San Andreas Fault could generate three times more shaking in Los Angeles than surrounding regions. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 22, 2014
When Science, Politics and Environmental Policy Meet
What’s the difference between climate change, the Northern spotted owl, and acid rain? -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 17, 2014
MITx Course injects Science into the Global Warming Debate
12.340x (Global Warming Science) focuses on teaching students academic rigor, not rhetoric. Learn about the new online course from co-teacher Kerry Emanuel. -
WHOI News | January 16, 2014
Coral Reefs in Palau Surprisingly Resistant to Naturally Acidified Waters
Ocean researchers working on the coral reefs of Palau in 2011 and 2012 made two unexpected discoveries that could provide insight into corals’ resistance and resilience to ocean acidification and aid in the creation of a plan to protect them. -
WHOI - Oceanus | January 15, 2014
What Causes the Atlantic to Bloom?
Scientists find surprising trigger for spring plant growth -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 14, 2014
EAPS Goes to AGU 2013
Between talks and posters, researchers from MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences contributed to over one hundred presentations at the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting this past December. -
WHOI News | January 14, 2014
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientist Receives Grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation has awarded Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) assistant scientist Anna Michel $200,000 to develop a sensor that will enable scientists to analyze how methane emissions fluctuate in the Arctic. -
WHOI News | January 14, 2014
How Radioactive is Our Ocean?
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine chemist Ken Buesseler began sampling and analyzing seawater surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant three months after the 2011 disaster. Today, he launched a crowd sourcing campaign and... -
Featured Stories | January 10, 2014
The Shipping News
Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 9, 2014
Ahoy! First ocean vesicles spotted
EAPS' Florence Schubotz and Roger Summons, together with researchers in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biology Departments, discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes. -
MIT News | January 9, 2014
Predicting the future of global water stress
Population growth and increasing social pressures on global water resources have required communities around the globe to focus on the future of water availability. Global climate change is expected to further exacerbate the demands on water-stressed r... -
WHOI - Oceanus | January 9, 2014
Can Squid Abide Ocean’s Lower pH?
Experiments hint at harm to critical balance organs -
MIT News | January 8, 2014
The ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Their effect on the surface of the ocean is negligible, producing a rise of just inches that is virtually imperceptible on a turbulent sea. But internal waves, which are hidden entirely within the ocean, can tower hundreds of feet, with profound effect... -
WHOI News | January 8, 2014
New Study Finds Extreme Longevity in White Sharks
Great white sharks—top predators throughout the world's ocean—grow much slower and live significantly longer than previously thought, according to a new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). -
Featured Stories | January 1, 2014
The Best of Oceans at MIT 2013
Related topics | Oceans and Climate |Life in the Oceans
