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Sea Surface Temperature Research Provides Clear Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Change

New oceanic research provides clear evidence of a human “fingerprint” on climate change and shows that specific signals from human activities have altered the seasonal cycle amplitude of sea surface temperatures (SST).
19-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations

High resolution satellite imagery and field-based validation surveys have provided the first multi-year time series documenting emperor penguin populations.
13-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement

Researchers at WHOI demonstrated that replaying healthy reef sounds could potentially be used to encourage coral larvae to recolonize damaged or degraded reefs.
13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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ASLO honors Elizabeth B. Kujawinski with the 2024 G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award

Each year, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) honors scientists for their outstanding achievements in aquatic science research, service, and education.
13-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Researchers Studying Ocean Transform Faults, Describe a Previously Unknown Part of the Geological Carbon Cycle

This study reports widespread mineral carbonation of mantle rocks in an oceanic transform fueled by magmatic degassing of CO2.
12-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Vitamin B12 adaptability in Antarctic algae has implications for climate change

Vitamin B12 deficiency in people can cause a slew of health problems and even become fatal. Until now, the same deficiencies were thought to impact certain types of algae, as well.
5-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Some Plastic Straws Degrade Quicker Than Others, New Study Shows

In a new paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, WHOI scientists Collin Ward, Bryan James, Chris Reddy, and Yanchen Sun put different types of plastics and paper drinking straws head-to-head to see which degrade the fastest in...
30-Jan-2024 8:30 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Researchers Say Accounting for Plastic Persistence Can Minimize Environmental Impacts

Researchers have developed a sustainability metric for the ecological design of plastic products that have low persistence in the environment. Adhering to this metric could provide substantial environmental and societal benefits
8-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST Add to Favorites


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Investigating the Ocean’s Influence on Australia’s Drought

To understand how the relentless heat, blazing wild fires, and bone-dry conditions have reached such extremes, scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are looking to the ocean.
9-Jan-2020 4:00 PM EST

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WHOI Climate Change Experts Available

The ocean plays a critical role in Earth’s climate system and will be among the topics discussed during the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) taking place in Copenhagen from Dec. 7-18, 2009. This year — for the first time...
8-Dec-2009 3:25 PM EST

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