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📣 Calling all post-docs and recent PhDs! 🧑‍🔬

We’re currently seeking applicants with background in math, engineering, economics, policy, and physical and biological sciences for 18-month appointments with a WHOI advisor.

📲 Find out more and apply by Oct. 15: go.whoi.edu/pdscholarship

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Sunita “Suni” Williams is a recently-retired NASA astronaut who has spent 608 days in space and completed nine spacewalks—the most spacewalk time by a woman.

📲So what has her perspective from space taught her about our ocean planet? Find out from Oceanus: go.whoi.edu/suniwilliams

A studio portrait of NASA astronaut Suni Williams, standing with her arms crossed and smiling warmly, set against a dark blue background. She is wearing a bright blue flight suit with a NASA insignia, a name patch reading "SUNI WILLIAMS," and an American flag patch on her shoulder. The text on the image reads: "Oceanus Magazine" in a thin, light-blue font, followed by the large, white, bold headline, "What is NASA astronaut Suni Williams' relationship with the ocean?"
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Have a little one in your life who’s big on the ocean? 🌊

From shirts to stuffies, the WHOI Shop has everything you need to keep them curious about the ocean—while supporting marine science 💙

👉 Check out our Kids Collection: go.whoi.edu/Kids-apparel

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#Throwback to just last year, when the nation's deepest-diving crewed submersible Alvin returned to Woods Hole! 🥳

After its 3,000-mile journey from San Diego, the sub spent 6 months getting a complete overhaul from WHOI engineers.
By June, it was ready for another 5 years of deep sea science!

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🌀🌡️ As Hurricane Isaias barrels towards the Alabama coast, Argo floats are picking up near-record sea surface temperatures of 30°C-31°C. Hurricanes are fueled by ocean temperatures over 27°C.

📲Learn how ocean observations help us stay one step ahead of these storms: go.whoi.edu/hurricane-info

A meteorological tracking map showing a hurricane’s projected path through the Gulf of Mexico toward the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm's path is marked by concentric circles at its center, near the Tropic of Cancer, with a black track line extending north-northeast. Two thick blue lines frame the projected cone of uncertainty. The wind field is represented by color-coded concentric bands extending outward from the storm center: - **Purple (center):** High-intensity core. - **Red/Orange:** Strong winds. - **Yellow/Green (outer bands):** Decreasing wind intensity. The outer green band stretches north, making landfall across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. A red line highlights a section of the coastline indicating a warning zone. Numerous blue buoy icons with identification numbers are scattered across the Gulf of Mexico, with several positioned directly in the storm’s path. Time stamps such as "1200 UTC OCT 08" mark the storm’s progression along its track.
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Why are marine scientists putting their equipment on cargo ships?

WHOI Research Technician Emily Peacock recently installed a phytoplankton imaging sensor on the M/V Oleander.

How does this partnership advance understanding of the changing marine food web? Find out: go.whoi.edu/samplingplankton

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Happy World Octopus Day! 🐙

In 2019, scientists in Alvin discovered thousands of octopuses tending their eggs in a part of now known as Octopus Garden.

📲Watch the full video with WHOI principal engineer Andy Bowen and MBNMS research specialist Chad King: go.whoi.edu/octo-garden

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One researcher's biofouling is another person’s delicacy! Depending on where they come from, when they are harvested, and their size, goose barnacles can range from about $13 to $130 per pound in some markets! (Scientists do not harvest from these buoys.) Have you had goose barnacles?

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The small leaks from our cars, roads, and roofs can create long-term health problems for marine organisms and the habitats they rely on.

👉Find out where ocean oil comes from—and what we can do about it—from WHOI's Oceanus magazine: go.whoi.edu/ocean-oil-spills

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What does it take to keep the nation’s deepest-diving crewed submersible running for over six decades?

OnCape Magazine traces the WHOI-operated sub's evolution from its 1964 commissioning to its current work studying the deep sea.

Read more from OnCape Magazine: go.whoi.edu/on-cape-mag

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📣 Calling all marine science and engineering majors! Could the -WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering be your next step?

Find out in one of our live virtual info sessions on October 6 and October 28!

📲Get the deets and register at go.whoi.edu/mit-info

Four smiling young adults pose in front of a blue "ocean PAVILION" backdrop. On the left, a man in a black suit and a woman in a dark blazer shake hands with the two people on the right: a person wearing glasses and a dark green shirt, and a man wearing a light blue dress shirt.A medium shot shows a smiling young man with short brown hair and a beard standing at a wooden table in a spacious lab or workshop, looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark grey, long-sleeved athletic shirt. In front of him on the table are several items: - A tall, narrow, rectangular container made of clear acrylic, partially filled with a translucent, light-orange liquid. - A small, white cardboard box with a colorful circular logo that reads "LED STRIP LIGHTS," with a small black camera lens sitting on top of it. - An open black laptop displaying a dark screen with software interface elements. In the background, the room is brightly lit with high ceilings. Two other people are visible but slightly out of focus: a person with dark hair and glasses sitting behind the laptop, and another person on the right facing away from the camera. A bright yellow structure is visible in the middle background.An eye-level medium-shot captures two people on a gray inflatable boat in glacial water. On the left, a person sits facing slightly right, looking ahead. They wear a gray beanie with the word "MITWHOI" in blue letters, an orange and black jacket, and red and black gloves. They hold a small yellow device up to their left eye. A yellow notebook lies open next to their lap. In the center, a person in a green and black jumpsuit and a bright teal beanie with black sunglasses resting on top sits facing right, holding a black camera to their face as if taking a photo. They are in a calm, light teal body of water with small ice chunks floating. The water reflects the cloudy, white sky and the mountains in the background. High, jagged mountains line both sides of the water, with patches of snow on them. On the far right is a glacier that extends into the water.An eye-level shot captures two smiling female researchers on a ship’s deck collecting water samples from a CTD rosette. On the left, a researcher wearing a blue hard hat with a "NES-LTER" sticker, a black fleece, grey trousers, and brown tall boots squats down. She holds a small, clear sample bottle with a red cap under a tube releasing water from one of several large grey Niskin bottles on the CTD frame. Squatting next to her on the right, the other researcher, with blonde hair in a bun, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and red shoes, looks on with a smile. She wears purple protective gloves. The background shows the ship's white superstructure, a blue metal barrier on the right, and the wet, white deck.
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See you at the Cambridge Science Carnival on Sunday, October 4th from 12-4 pm!

Stop by our table to meet some of our underwater robots, SharkCam and RESQ ROV. You can also enter a raffle for WHOI-branded gear and learn about our latest research!

Learn more: cambridgesciencecarnival.org/

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⛈️🌊 Atmospheric rivers, droughts, and hurricanes—no matter where you live on our planet, your weather is influenced by the sea.

👉Find out why a warmer ocean means a stormier future—and how ocean observatories can help us prepare: go.whoi.edu/oceanweather

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Heading out for another Beaufort Gyre expedition!

WHOI engineers Jeff O'Brien, Chris Basque, Tim McDonough, and Eric Hutt are aboard the Canada Coast Guard's icebreaker Louis S. St.-Laurent in the Beaufort Sea off the North Slope of Alaska and the Yukon.

Learn more: go.whoi.edu/Beaufortgyre

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📣 Calling all marine science and engineering majors! Could the -WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering be your next step?

Find out in one of our live virtual info sessions on October 6 and October 28!

📲Get the deets and register at go.whoi.edu/mit-info

Four smiling young adults pose in front of a blue "ocean PAVILION" backdrop. On the left, a man in a black suit and a woman in a dark blazer shake hands with the two people on the right: a person wearing glasses and a dark green shirt, and a man wearing a light blue dress shirt.A medium shot shows a smiling young man with short brown hair and a beard standing at a wooden table in a spacious lab or workshop, looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark grey, long-sleeved athletic shirt. In front of him on the table are several items: - A tall, narrow, rectangular container made of clear acrylic, partially filled with a translucent, light-orange liquid. - A small, white cardboard box with a colorful circular logo that reads "LED STRIP LIGHTS," with a small black camera lens sitting on top of it. - An open black laptop displaying a dark screen with software interface elements. In the background, the room is brightly lit with high ceilings. Two other people are visible but slightly out of focus: a person with dark hair and glasses sitting behind the laptop, and another person on the right facing away from the camera. A bright yellow structure is visible in the middle background.An eye-level medium-shot captures two people on a gray inflatable boat in glacial water. On the left, a person sits facing slightly right, looking ahead. They wear a gray beanie with the word "MITWHOI" in blue letters, an orange and black jacket, and red and black gloves. They hold a small yellow device up to their left eye. A yellow notebook lies open next to their lap. In the center, a person in a green and black jumpsuit and a bright teal beanie with black sunglasses resting on top sits facing right, holding a black camera to their face as if taking a photo. They are in a calm, light teal body of water with small ice chunks floating. The water reflects the cloudy, white sky and the mountains in the background. High, jagged mountains line both sides of the water, with patches of snow on them. On the far right is a glacier that extends into the water.An eye-level shot captures two smiling female researchers on a ship’s deck collecting water samples from a CTD rosette. On the left, a researcher wearing a blue hard hat with a "NES-LTER" sticker, a black fleece, grey trousers, and brown tall boots squats down. She holds a small, clear sample bottle with a red cap under a tube releasing water from one of several large grey Niskin bottles on the CTD frame. Squatting next to her on the right, the other researcher, with blonde hair in a bun, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and red shoes, looks on with a smile. She wears purple protective gloves. The background shows the ship's white superstructure, a blue metal barrier on the right, and the wet, white deck.
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