A new WHOI-led study traces an unusual influx of cold, fresh water that disrupted fisheries from New England to the ...

WHOI researchers use more than 15,000 satellite observations of ice cliffs to reduce uncertainty in future sea level rise ...

Tiny but mighty, phytoplankton fuel marine food webs, absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide, and produce half of Earth’s ...

Rarely seen images, video, and audio of the discovery can be found here. Woods Hole, Mass. (August 8, 2025) – On September 1, 1985, the wreck of the RMS Titanic was discovered about 12,500 feet (3,800 ...

The Seafood Engine will initially receive an award of $15 million over two years, with the potential to grow up to $160 million over ten years as it works to build an internationally competitive ...

Catherine Walker, WHOI Sponsored by: AOP&E Department – Smith Conference Room This will be a hybrid seminar in Smith Conference Room. Zoom invite for those wishing ...

Researchers find fluffy anemones spreading south via shipwrecks, revealing how artificial reefs and ocean currents connect marine habitats ...

WHOI’s Jordan Kennedy draws on Indigenous knowledge, engineering, and observation to rethink how we study and restore coastal landscapes ...

Stretching over 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) long and plunging more than 11,400 feet (around 3,500 meters) deep, the Mar del Plata Canyon lies about 186 miles (300 kilometers) off the coast of Argentina.

As long as sailors have been going down to the sea in ships, they have been coming back with their ships’ hulls coated with barnacles, algae, and slimy gunk. And for just as long, mariners have ...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake 80 miles east of the Japanese city of Sendai generated a towering tsunami that slammed into the coastline and critically damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi ...

The long lag time has always puzzled scientists: Why did Antarctica become covered by massive ice sheets 34 million years ago, while the Arctic Ocean acquired its ice cap only about 3 million year ago ...