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Life

How we explore the Ocean Twilight Zone: Emma Cotter on broadband acoustics

By Ken Kostel | November 6, 2020

WHOI post-doc Emma Cotter gave a virtual presentation recently to the Pacific Marine Energy Center describing how scientists like her…

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Connecting Life in the Ocean Twilight Zone

By David Levin | August 4, 2020
dissection of a fangtooth

The OTZ team is studying food webs in the twilight zone using a number of different methods. One important technique…

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Understanding Life in the OTZ

By David Levin | August 4, 2020

The Ocean Twilight Zone is home to some bizarre and beautiful life, like this showy bristle worm. Most of the…

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Exploring Deepwater Ecosystems with eDNA

By Johnny Willy | June 1, 2020
Exploring Deepwater Ecosystems

Between September 23-27, 2019, a team of ocean scientists and engineers from WHOI and Lehigh University used NOAA’s research vessel…

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OTZ Art: Paint a Female Anglerfish

By Johnny Willy | May 15, 2020
Female Angler Art

Draw, paint, and learn about female football fish, genus Himantolophus. This tutorial is brought to you by Actinops Art https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp2a……

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A Window into the Twilight Zone

By Johnny Willy | April 22, 2020
New Technology

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution oceanographer Andone Lavery and her team of scientists and engineers have created the ultimate tool for…

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The ocean’s carbon pump works better than we thought!

By Johnny Willy | April 6, 2020
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Scientists have long known that the ocean plays an essential role in capturing carbon from the atmosphere, but a study…

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The Ocean Twilight Zone: Earth’s Final Frontier

By Johnny Willy | March 11, 2020
Jellyfish

The mysteries of the ocean twilight zone are waiting to be explored. What was once thought to be desert-like isn’t…

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Tagging sharks to study the twilight zone

By Ken Kostel | January 23, 2020
shark fin on the surface with fish tag

Former MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student and current University of Washington post-doc Camrin Braun and his team on the charter…

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Paul Caiger hunts for things that glow in the Ocean Twilight Zone

By Ken Kostel | January 22, 2020

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