WHOI Stories

• WHOI News | March 11, 2014

  Enhancing Fisheries Science and Education in the Northeastern U.S.

  The NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), and the University of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) are working together to train future generations of scientists in...
• WHOI News | March 10, 2014

  New Research Shows Elevated Mercury from in-Ground Wastewater Disposal

  As towns across Cape Cod struggle with problems stemming from septic systems, a recent study by a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist focuses on one specific toxic by-product: mercury. In a study of local groundwater, biogeochemist Ca...
• WHOI - Oceanus | March 6, 2014

  A Buoy’s Long Strange Trip

  An oceanographic instrument drifts from the Arctic to Ireland
• WHOI - Oceanus | February 27, 2014

  Li’l Alvin

  Diving enthusiast builds miniature version of famous sub
• WHOI News | February 25, 2014

  Scientists Train the Next Generation on Oil Spill Research

  As part of on-going research nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will team up with a group of high school students in Florida to collect remnants of oil from Gulf Coas...
• WHOI News | February 24, 2014

  Radioactive Ocean Website Garners Public Support

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has teamed up with the public to build the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on marine radiation levels in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. 
• WHOI News | February 19, 2014

  Three Years after Fukushima: Tracking Radionuclides in the Pacific Ocean

  A press conference with scientists researching Fukushima radiation in the Pacific
• WHOI News | February 13, 2014

  Killing Whales by Design and Default

  While countries such as Japan, Norway, and Iceland often are criticized for their commercial whaling practices, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine biologist Michael Moore points out how the majority of nations are also complicit in kill...
• WHOI - Oceanus | February 13, 2014

  Mysterious Jellyfish Makes a Comeback

  Rise in toxic stings has scientists on the alert
• WHOI News | February 12, 2014

  Solving An Evolutionary Puzzle

  For four decades, waste from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into the waters of New Bedford Harbor—an 18,000-acre estuary and busy seaport. The harbor, which is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals, is one of the...
• WHOI News | February 6, 2014

  A Look Back and Ahead at Greenland’s Changing Climate

  Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise. However, the chain of events and physical processes that contributed to it has remained elusive. One likely trigg...
• WHOI - Oceanus | February 6, 2014

  Message Bottled in an Email

  A long-lost legacy of ocean research resurfaces
• 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...
• 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.
• 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
• 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...
• WHOI - Oceanus | January 9, 2014

  Can Squid Abide Ocean’s Lower pH?

  Experiments hint at harm to critical balance organs