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)...
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...
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...
Phytoplankton use sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, forming the base of the ocean food web. Phytoplankton are eaten by zooplankton, which are eaten...
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...
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...
New research from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) published Aug. 19, 2019, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science provides evidence of...