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VIDEO: New Eyes in the Twilight Zone

Members of WHOI’s Ocean Twilight Zone team, particularly the lab led by marine biologist Annette Govindarajan, are pioneering the use of environmental DNA (eDNA)...

Researchers use the innovative method to weigh whales

How do you weigh a living whale? The obvious response is very carefully, but scientists can’t exactly put these large marine mammals on a...

Orpheus AUV explores the ocean’s depths in Veatch Canyon

Orpheus, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by WHOI, begins its descent into Veatch Canyon on the continental shelf off of the U.S. Northeast...

Subsea engineers test robots to tracking oil spills under the arctic ice

As sea ice continues to melt in the Arctic and oil exploration expands in the region, the possibility of an oil spill occurring under...

Underwater cameras tackle tough questions for fishery

Ocean scientists and fishermen team up to document seal-fishing net interactions. One of the tough realities of commercial fishing is that fishermen and seals sometimes...

Autonomous ‘SharkCam’ filmed basking sharks in water for the first time

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) known as the REMUS SharkCam has been used in the UK for the first time to observe the behaviour...

VIDEO: Scientists develop minion-robots that will follow marine snow

Phytoplankton use sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, forming the base of the ocean food web. Phytoplankton are eaten by zooplankton, which are eaten...

VIDEO: Mesobot dives into the Twilight Zone

Mesobot is a brand new underwater vehicle designed to reveal what lives in the ocean’s twilight zone. Mesobot can follow animals as they move through...

VIDEO: AUV Sentry to explore the ocean down to 6000 meters depth

The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry is part of the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF). Sentry is a fully autonomous underwater vehicle capable of exploring...

Origin of massive methane reservoir identified at the seafloor

New research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) published Aug. 19, 2019,  in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science provides evidence of...

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