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WHOI News | July 16, 2013
Study Identifies Deepwater Horizon Debris as Likely Source of Gulf of Mexico Oil Sheens
A chemical analysis of oil sheens found floating recently at the ocean’s surface near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster indicates that the source is pockets of oil trapped within the wreckage of the sunken rig. Both the Macondo wel... -
MIT News | July 15, 2013
Phytoplankton social mixers
Tiny ocean plants, or phytoplankton, were long thought to be passive drifters in the sea — unable to defy even the weakest currents, or travel by their own volition. In recent decades, research has shown that many species of these unicellular microor... -
WHOI News | July 14, 2013
Scientists solve a 14,000-year-old ocean mystery
At the end of the last Ice Age, as the world began to warm, a swath of the North Pacific Ocean came to life. During a brief pulse of biological productivity 14,000 years ago, this stretch of the sea teemed with phytoplankton, amoeba-like foraminifera a... -
MIT Sea Grant | July 13, 2013
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WHOI - Oceanus | July 12, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Al Suchy
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MIT Sea Grant | July 11, 2013
MIT SEA GRANT’S FOURTH ANNUAL OCEAN ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE FOR HIGH SCHOOLERS IS UNDERWAY!
The challenge this year involves the design and construction of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), modeled after the Sea Perch. The students receive special instruction from MIT Sea Grant staff and guest lecturers, who impart vital information on all a... -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 9, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Dutch Wegman
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MIT, MIT EAPS | July 8, 2013
Bigger Storms Ahead
With global warming, a study by Kerry Emanuel finds, tropical cyclones may become more frequent and intense. -
WHOI News | July 8, 2013
Corals cozy up with bacterial buddies
Corals may let certain bacteria get under its skin, according to a new study by researchers at WHOI and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. The study offers the... -
MIT News | July 7, 2013
Buckling up to turn
Bacteria swim by rotating the helical, hairlike flagella that extend from their unicellular bodies. Some bacteria, including the Escherichia coli (E. coli) living in the human gut, have multiple flagella that rotate as a bundle to move the cell forward... -
WHOI - Oceanus | July 1, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Patrick Hennessy
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Featured Stories | June 28, 2013
Highlights from Boston’s SwissNex Conference…and a Float on a Solar Boat
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WHOI News | June 27, 2013
Robotic probe launcher may transform ocean data collection
Our understanding of the ocean and its variability relies on the tools ocean scientists deploy to collect data. One tool routinely used is the eXpendable BathyThermograph (XBT) probe, which is usually deployed by hand one at a time at sea. -
WHOI News | June 27, 2013
Scientists Discover Thriving Colonies of Microbes in Ocean ‘Plastisphere’
Scientists have discovered a diverse multitude of microbes colonizing and thriving on flecks of plastic that have polluted the oceans—a vast new human-made flotilla of microbial communities that they have dubbed the 'plastisphere.' -
WHOI - Oceanus | June 25, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Paul Keith
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WHOI - Oceanus | June 19, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Chris Lathan
A series on the people who reassembled the iconic sub -
MIT News | June 17, 2013
Holding the salt
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote of the anguish felt by sailors on being surrounded by undrinkable water when faced with thirst. More than 200 years later, environmentalists have adopted C... -
WHOI News | June 14, 2013
WHOI Welcomes Explorer and Director James Cameron and the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER
On Friday, June 14, filmmaker James Cameron delivered the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, the only human-occupied vehicle currently able to access the deepest parts of the ocean, to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Susan Avery, president and director of W... -
WHOI - Oceanus | June 13, 2013
The Scientist and the Poet
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MIT Sea Grant | June 12, 2013
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