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Traveling for the holidays? Skip the airport—hitch a ride on these globetrotting currents!🌀✈️☺️
📲Get to know our amazing ocean planet through our new science interactive: http://go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
📲Get to know our amazing ocean planet through our new science interactive: http://go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Traveling for the holidays? Skip the airport—hitch a ride on these globetrotting currents!🌀✈️☺️
📲Get to know our amazing ocean planet through our new science interactive: http://go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
📲Get to know our amazing ocean planet through our new science interactive: http://go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
Sentry gets into the holiday spirit! 🦃
During a 2016 expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis, WHOI engineer Justin Fujii embellished our underwater robot Sentry with electrical tape to resemble a turkey.
How do you celebrate holidays when you can't be with family or friends?
During a 2016 expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis, WHOI engineer Justin Fujii embellished our underwater robot Sentry with electrical tape to resemble a turkey.
How do you celebrate holidays when you can't be with family or friends?
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Sentry gets into the holiday spirit! 🦃
During a 2016 expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis, WHOI engineer Justin Fujii embellished our underwater robot Sentry with electrical tape to resemble a turkey.
How do you celebrate holidays when you can't be with family or friends?
During a 2016 expedition aboard the research vessel Atlantis, WHOI engineer Justin Fujii embellished our underwater robot Sentry with electrical tape to resemble a turkey.
How do you celebrate holidays when you can't be with family or friends?
How do whale researchers "catch a breath?" With drones, of course!
#WHOI & New England Aquarium scientists remotely captured blowhole spray from North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay to learn more about their health—without invading their space!
📲Learn more from BBC: go.whoi.edu/bbc-whale
#WHOI & New England Aquarium scientists remotely captured blowhole spray from North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay to learn more about their health—without invading their space!
📲Learn more from BBC: go.whoi.edu/bbc-whale
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How do whale researchers "catch a breath?" With drones, of course!
#WHOI & New England Aquarium scientists remotely captured blowhole spray from North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay to learn more about their health—without invading their space!
📲Learn more from BBC: go.whoi.edu/bbc-whale
#WHOI & New England Aquarium scientists remotely captured blowhole spray from North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay to learn more about their health—without invading their space!
📲Learn more from BBC: go.whoi.edu/bbc-whale
✅❌ Fact or Fiction: Do plastics actually stay in the environment for thousands of years?
Find out through the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub: go.whoi.edu/plastic
Find out through the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub: go.whoi.edu/plastic
November 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
✅❌ Fact or Fiction: Do plastics actually stay in the environment for thousands of years?
Find out through the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub: go.whoi.edu/plastic
Find out through the WHOI Ocean Learning Hub: go.whoi.edu/plastic
We spotted a familiar face! 👀
Bruce Strickrott, lead pilot of the WHOI-operated deep-sea sub Alvin, was recently featured in a new Apple ad highlighting the power of curiosity, ideas, and exploration.
Go behind the scenes with Apple’s spotlight: go.whoi.edu/apple
Bruce Strickrott, lead pilot of the WHOI-operated deep-sea sub Alvin, was recently featured in a new Apple ad highlighting the power of curiosity, ideas, and exploration.
Go behind the scenes with Apple’s spotlight: go.whoi.edu/apple
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
We spotted a familiar face! 👀
Bruce Strickrott, lead pilot of the WHOI-operated deep-sea sub Alvin, was recently featured in a new Apple ad highlighting the power of curiosity, ideas, and exploration.
Go behind the scenes with Apple’s spotlight: go.whoi.edu/apple
Bruce Strickrott, lead pilot of the WHOI-operated deep-sea sub Alvin, was recently featured in a new Apple ad highlighting the power of curiosity, ideas, and exploration.
Go behind the scenes with Apple’s spotlight: go.whoi.edu/apple
🤔Where is the largest coral colony on Earth? 🪸
It's not in the Great Barrier Reef! It's actually Laloniasi, a 300-year-old coral (Pavona clavus) measuring the size of two basketball courts in the Solomon Islands.
👉Find out why our #ReefSolutions team is studying it: go.whoi.edu/megacoral
It's not in the Great Barrier Reef! It's actually Laloniasi, a 300-year-old coral (Pavona clavus) measuring the size of two basketball courts in the Solomon Islands.
👉Find out why our #ReefSolutions team is studying it: go.whoi.edu/megacoral
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🤔Where is the largest coral colony on Earth? 🪸
It's not in the Great Barrier Reef! It's actually Laloniasi, a 300-year-old coral (Pavona clavus) measuring the size of two basketball courts in the Solomon Islands.
👉Find out why our #ReefSolutions team is studying it: go.whoi.edu/megacoral
It's not in the Great Barrier Reef! It's actually Laloniasi, a 300-year-old coral (Pavona clavus) measuring the size of two basketball courts in the Solomon Islands.
👉Find out why our #ReefSolutions team is studying it: go.whoi.edu/megacoral
🎶🦐🐠 Composer Chad Cannon recently teamed up with WHOI's Sensory Ecology & Bioacoustics Lab to create "Call of the Reef" featuring snapping shrimp!
👉Get the backstory on this collaboration—and how our researchers are restoring reef ecosystems through sound: go.whoi.edu/oceanmusic
👉Get the backstory on this collaboration—and how our researchers are restoring reef ecosystems through sound: go.whoi.edu/oceanmusic
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🎶🦐🐠 Composer Chad Cannon recently teamed up with WHOI's Sensory Ecology & Bioacoustics Lab to create "Call of the Reef" featuring snapping shrimp!
👉Get the backstory on this collaboration—and how our researchers are restoring reef ecosystems through sound: go.whoi.edu/oceanmusic
👉Get the backstory on this collaboration—and how our researchers are restoring reef ecosystems through sound: go.whoi.edu/oceanmusic
Ready to shift your world view? 🌎🌍🌏
👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Ready to shift your world view? 🌎🌍🌏
👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
👉🏽Explore our planet as you never have before: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
📣We're at @cop30brazil.bsky.social to speak for the ocean! 🌊
For the past four years, working with @scrippsocean.bsky.social and partners around the world, we've brought the #OceanPavilion to the UN's annual climate talks—creating a hub for ocean-based #climatesolutions!
For the past four years, working with @scrippsocean.bsky.social and partners around the world, we've brought the #OceanPavilion to the UN's annual climate talks—creating a hub for ocean-based #climatesolutions!
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
📣We're at @cop30brazil.bsky.social to speak for the ocean! 🌊
For the past four years, working with @scrippsocean.bsky.social and partners around the world, we've brought the #OceanPavilion to the UN's annual climate talks—creating a hub for ocean-based #climatesolutions!
For the past four years, working with @scrippsocean.bsky.social and partners around the world, we've brought the #OceanPavilion to the UN's annual climate talks—creating a hub for ocean-based #climatesolutions!
🍌 Long before the Internet made the official size comparison a “banana for scale,” WHOI researchers had perfected the art of creative size comparison—using whatever they had on deck to show the size of what they pulled up in their nets.
What informal tools do you use to measure in a pinch? 🤔
What informal tools do you use to measure in a pinch? 🤔
November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🍌 Long before the Internet made the official size comparison a “banana for scale,” WHOI researchers had perfected the art of creative size comparison—using whatever they had on deck to show the size of what they pulled up in their nets.
What informal tools do you use to measure in a pinch? 🤔
What informal tools do you use to measure in a pinch? 🤔
Get a free copy of WHOI’s award-winning magazine!
This Oceanus special edition explores breakthroughs in ocean science + technology that unlock new possibilities for ocean, our planet, and our future.
👉Supplies are limited— get yours today: explore.whoi.edu/oceanus-giveaway-its-an-ocean-world
This Oceanus special edition explores breakthroughs in ocean science + technology that unlock new possibilities for ocean, our planet, and our future.
👉Supplies are limited— get yours today: explore.whoi.edu/oceanus-giveaway-its-an-ocean-world
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Get a free copy of WHOI’s award-winning magazine!
This Oceanus special edition explores breakthroughs in ocean science + technology that unlock new possibilities for ocean, our planet, and our future.
👉Supplies are limited— get yours today: explore.whoi.edu/oceanus-giveaway-its-an-ocean-world
This Oceanus special edition explores breakthroughs in ocean science + technology that unlock new possibilities for ocean, our planet, and our future.
👉Supplies are limited— get yours today: explore.whoi.edu/oceanus-giveaway-its-an-ocean-world
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…super crab? 🦀
Carolyn Tepolt says invasive European green crabs are adapting to colder waters, which could spell chaos for vulnerable coastal ecosystems.
📲Find out how communities are eradicating these invaders from the @alaskabeacon.com: go.whoi.edu/ab-crab
Carolyn Tepolt says invasive European green crabs are adapting to colder waters, which could spell chaos for vulnerable coastal ecosystems.
📲Find out how communities are eradicating these invaders from the @alaskabeacon.com: go.whoi.edu/ab-crab
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…super crab? 🦀
Carolyn Tepolt says invasive European green crabs are adapting to colder waters, which could spell chaos for vulnerable coastal ecosystems.
📲Find out how communities are eradicating these invaders from the @alaskabeacon.com: go.whoi.edu/ab-crab
Carolyn Tepolt says invasive European green crabs are adapting to colder waters, which could spell chaos for vulnerable coastal ecosystems.
📲Find out how communities are eradicating these invaders from the @alaskabeacon.com: go.whoi.edu/ab-crab
At this year’s UN climate conference @cop30brazil.bsky.social, the ocean is finally considered a vital part of climate solutions!
🌊📜🤝
👉🏽Find out how we’ve been pushing for this recognition all year—and what’s been happening at the #OceanPavilion this week: go.whoi.edu/cop30-week1
🌊📜🤝
👉🏽Find out how we’ve been pushing for this recognition all year—and what’s been happening at the #OceanPavilion this week: go.whoi.edu/cop30-week1
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
At this year’s UN climate conference @cop30brazil.bsky.social, the ocean is finally considered a vital part of climate solutions!
🌊📜🤝
👉🏽Find out how we’ve been pushing for this recognition all year—and what’s been happening at the #OceanPavilion this week: go.whoi.edu/cop30-week1
🌊📜🤝
👉🏽Find out how we’ve been pushing for this recognition all year—and what’s been happening at the #OceanPavilion this week: go.whoi.edu/cop30-week1
WHOI researcher Jen Johnson recently returned from a #Fulbright-funded mission to #Angola, working with the Instituto Nacional de Investigação Pesqueira to build a more accurate fisheries survey program with acoustic techniques. Here's to long-term collab across the Atlantic
#fulbrightscholar
#fulbrightscholar
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
WHOI researcher Jen Johnson recently returned from a #Fulbright-funded mission to #Angola, working with the Instituto Nacional de Investigação Pesqueira to build a more accurate fisheries survey program with acoustic techniques. Here's to long-term collab across the Atlantic
#fulbrightscholar
#fulbrightscholar
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📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-...
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
Microbes at COP30 – C-CoMP
ccomp-stc.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
📣 Microbes 🦠 are a key player & stakeholder in what happens next for our planet 🌎. C-CoMP will host a panel this week at #COP30 in the #OceanPavilion to discuss how to include the invisible microbial majority in a sustainable future. ccomp-stc.org/microbes-at-...
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
@whoi.edu @cop30brazil.bsky.social
The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the global ocean, forcing commercial species into cooler waters.
Our new Future Fishery Alliance provides tech and data that help fishermen adapt, increasing profit and efficiency, while reducing bycatch.
Learn more: go.whoi.edu/fisheryalliance
Our new Future Fishery Alliance provides tech and data that help fishermen adapt, increasing profit and efficiency, while reducing bycatch.
Learn more: go.whoi.edu/fisheryalliance
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the global ocean, forcing commercial species into cooler waters.
Our new Future Fishery Alliance provides tech and data that help fishermen adapt, increasing profit and efficiency, while reducing bycatch.
Learn more: go.whoi.edu/fisheryalliance
Our new Future Fishery Alliance provides tech and data that help fishermen adapt, increasing profit and efficiency, while reducing bycatch.
Learn more: go.whoi.edu/fisheryalliance
Doug Webb, an oceanographer and innovator at WHOI, revolutionized how we explore the ocean.
Webb is best known as the inventor of the underwater glider, an autonomous vehicle that navigates the ocean by adjusting its internal buoyancy.
Learn more about this ocean pioneer: go.whoi.edu/webb
Webb is best known as the inventor of the underwater glider, an autonomous vehicle that navigates the ocean by adjusting its internal buoyancy.
Learn more about this ocean pioneer: go.whoi.edu/webb
November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Doug Webb, an oceanographer and innovator at WHOI, revolutionized how we explore the ocean.
Webb is best known as the inventor of the underwater glider, an autonomous vehicle that navigates the ocean by adjusting its internal buoyancy.
Learn more about this ocean pioneer: go.whoi.edu/webb
Webb is best known as the inventor of the underwater glider, an autonomous vehicle that navigates the ocean by adjusting its internal buoyancy.
Learn more about this ocean pioneer: go.whoi.edu/webb
🫧 Our scientists recently found ice in Antarctica that’s 6 million years old, trapped ancient air inside. These "time capsules" offer a rare peek into Earth’s past atmosphere and how our planet has changed.
📲Pop into the research at @iflscience.com: go.whoi.edu/ifl-ice
📲Pop into the research at @iflscience.com: go.whoi.edu/ifl-ice
November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🫧 Our scientists recently found ice in Antarctica that’s 6 million years old, trapped ancient air inside. These "time capsules" offer a rare peek into Earth’s past atmosphere and how our planet has changed.
📲Pop into the research at @iflscience.com: go.whoi.edu/ifl-ice
📲Pop into the research at @iflscience.com: go.whoi.edu/ifl-ice
Alvin has explored thousands of miles of seafloor over its 61 years of service to science—and more recently, thousands of miles of highway, while crossing the country for a maintenance overhaul in Woods Hole!
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/cct-alvinshome
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/cct-alvinshome
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Alvin has explored thousands of miles of seafloor over its 61 years of service to science—and more recently, thousands of miles of highway, while crossing the country for a maintenance overhaul in Woods Hole!
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/cct-alvinshome
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/cct-alvinshome
Last month, researchers from Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University launched an autonomous underwater glider on an ambitious mission to circumnavigate the globe.
📲 Find out what this historic mission means for the future of ocean research from the @bostonglobe.com: go.whoi.edu/redwing
📲 Find out what this historic mission means for the future of ocean research from the @bostonglobe.com: go.whoi.edu/redwing
November 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Last month, researchers from Teledyne Marine and Rutgers University launched an autonomous underwater glider on an ambitious mission to circumnavigate the globe.
📲 Find out what this historic mission means for the future of ocean research from the @bostonglobe.com: go.whoi.edu/redwing
📲 Find out what this historic mission means for the future of ocean research from the @bostonglobe.com: go.whoi.edu/redwing
🐳 What can whale spit tell us about its health? Turns out, quite a bit!
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/breath
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/breath
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🐳 What can whale spit tell us about its health? Turns out, quite a bit!
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/breath
📲Learn more: go.whoi.edu/breath
🌊 Beneath the ocean surface, there's a hidden world of trenches, seamounts, and even volcanoes! So, how deep is the ocean on average?
Leave your best guess in the comments 👇
🏄🏻Explore more wonders of our ocean planet through our new web interactive: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
#ItsAnOceanWorld
Leave your best guess in the comments 👇
🏄🏻Explore more wonders of our ocean planet through our new web interactive: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
#ItsAnOceanWorld
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
🌊 Beneath the ocean surface, there's a hidden world of trenches, seamounts, and even volcanoes! So, how deep is the ocean on average?
Leave your best guess in the comments 👇
🏄🏻Explore more wonders of our ocean planet through our new web interactive: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
#ItsAnOceanWorld
Leave your best guess in the comments 👇
🏄🏻Explore more wonders of our ocean planet through our new web interactive: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
#ItsAnOceanWorld
Throwback to International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958, when WHOI leased the USCG cutter Yamacraw for acoustic studies of the N. Atlantic & Mediterranean.
After the last logs were recorded, scientists & crew gathered below deck for a jam session. Let's hope the banjo didn't influence their data!
After the last logs were recorded, scientists & crew gathered below deck for a jam session. Let's hope the banjo didn't influence their data!
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Throwback to International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958, when WHOI leased the USCG cutter Yamacraw for acoustic studies of the N. Atlantic & Mediterranean.
After the last logs were recorded, scientists & crew gathered below deck for a jam session. Let's hope the banjo didn't influence their data!
After the last logs were recorded, scientists & crew gathered below deck for a jam session. Let's hope the banjo didn't influence their data!
You may have heard of data visualization, but how about data sonification?
#WHOI oceanographer Amy Bower converts data from offshore buoys into sound waves so that the resulting graphs become audible!
Dive deeper into her work in Bluedot Living : go.whoi.edu/bdl-bower
#WHOI oceanographer Amy Bower converts data from offshore buoys into sound waves so that the resulting graphs become audible!
Dive deeper into her work in Bluedot Living : go.whoi.edu/bdl-bower
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
You may have heard of data visualization, but how about data sonification?
#WHOI oceanographer Amy Bower converts data from offshore buoys into sound waves so that the resulting graphs become audible!
Dive deeper into her work in Bluedot Living : go.whoi.edu/bdl-bower
#WHOI oceanographer Amy Bower converts data from offshore buoys into sound waves so that the resulting graphs become audible!
Dive deeper into her work in Bluedot Living : go.whoi.edu/bdl-bower
We’re used to seeing our planet with land at the center.
But what if we shift our perspective?
📲Discover the wonders of our ocean world with our mind-blowing new web experience: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
But what if we shift our perspective?
📲Discover the wonders of our ocean world with our mind-blowing new web experience: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We’re used to seeing our planet with land at the center.
But what if we shift our perspective?
📲Discover the wonders of our ocean world with our mind-blowing new web experience: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world
But what if we shift our perspective?
📲Discover the wonders of our ocean world with our mind-blowing new web experience: go.whoi.edu/ocean-world