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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent article in Nature Communications warns of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), with a transition most likely to occur between 2025-2095. Other ...

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 ...

For the past century, the pace and density of development near the ocean has been unprecedented, and much of it is incompatible with the dynamic nature of the shoreline. More than $3 trillion are ...