WHOI Robot Takes First Known Automated Sample from Ocean
robots where there’s a shared intelligence spanning an entire fleet, with each vehicle working cooperatively like bees in a hive,” Camilli says. “It will go well beyond losing the joystick.”Funding for this project was provided by a NASA PSTAR Grant #NNX16AL08 and a National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative grant #IIS-1830500.(Source: WHOI
How Microbes Reflect the Health of Coral Reefs
from CIM-UH, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Mote Marine Laboratory, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information, visit Amy Apprill's lab.Funding for this work was provided by OceanX and the National Science Foundation.Nearshore reefs in the heavily-impacted Florida Keys show unhealthier corals and less marine life. This mountainous star coral (Orbicella faveolata) from offshore Summerland Key shows patches of dead coral, now overgrown with algae. (Photo by Amy Apprill, ©Woods Hole Oceanographic
Ocean Noise: Pile Driving Triggers Alarm Responses in Squid
part by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Environmental Studies Program through Interagency Agreement Number M17PG00029 with the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. 2388357
Interview: Dr. Catherine Warner, Director, NATO CMRE
. Someone else had a whole series of experiments where they wanted to collect solution data. We collected data from the Faeroes all the way up to Svalbard. An organization can’t afford to just go there with just one glider. We had a charter from Woods Hole, funded by the National Science Foundation to operate in waters around Iceland and Greenland from January through March. We are in demand because we are one of the only ice-capable, global research vessels that is going to the high north every year.Alliance has been around for 30 years. Do you plan to replace her?We&rsquo
Study: Sunlight Degrades Polystyrene Faster than Expected
Armstrong and Julia H. Jackson of WHOI, Anna N. Walsh of WHOI and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The research was funded by the Frank and Lisina Hoch Endowed Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Stanley Watson Chair in Oceanography, and a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation
Crab Comms: "It's not hunger pains, I just want to talk ..."
other crabs are using the same form of communication.“All crabs have a gastric mill and the capacity to communicate with sound,” said Taylor. “It will be interesting to see how our understanding of crustacean communication unfolds.”This study was funded through a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Marine Biology Research Division at Scripps
Saab Seaeye's Falcon for Ocean Research
A Saab Seaeye Falcon electric underwater robotic vehicle is to help support a network of oceanographic and atmospheric sensors that are part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) transforming ocean research.Funded by the National Science Foundation, the overall OOI program is managed by Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The moored, mobile autonomous, and cabled sensors provide real-time data access to address critical issues such as climate change, ecosystem variability, ocean acidification, and carbon cycling. The observatory consists of:The Coastal & Global
Scientists Find Micro Plastic in Arctic Ice
drifted into Lancaster Sound from more central regions of the Arctic.Plastic snowfallThe team plans to subject the samples to further analysis to support a broader research effort to understand the damage plastic is doing to fish, seabirds and large ocean mammals such as whales.Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation in the United States, the expedition in the Swedish icebreaker Oden ran from July 18 to Aug. 4 and covered some 2,000 nautical miles.Separately, German and Swiss scientists published a study on Wednesday based on samples from the Arctic, Swiss Alps
MassTech Grant Will Connect Ocean Entrepreneurs with WHOI
legislation that came out of the Massachusetts legislature.The Innovation Institute at MassTech also made a $2 million research center grant to WHOI in 2008 for the development of ocean observing infrastructure and a marine technology testbed. This award supported a successful proposal to the National Science Foundation that leveraged over $100 million in federal funding
Currents Not Linked to New England Sea Level
become available,” he said.Also collaborating on the study were Glen G. Gawarkiewicz and Jiayan Yang of WHOI; Sönke Dangendorf of Universität Siegen in Germany; and Christopher M. Little and Rui M. Ponte of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.The work was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) awards OCE-1558966, OCE-1834739, and OCE-1805029; NASA contract NNH16CT01C; and the J. Lamar Worzel Assistant Scientist Fund and the Penzance Endowed Fund in Support of Assistant Scientists at WHOI
