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Field Notes: Unraveling the mysteries of migration with simultaneous sampling
OTZ project lead Heidi Sosik and WHOI senior research assistant Taylor Crockford review data coming in from the towed sled…
Read MoreWHOI Wants Everyone To ‘Keep It Weird’
The Falmouth Enterprise
Read MoreCounting fish—with sound
Acoustic measurements from a ship and an underwater robot help scientists estimate how many fish are in the twilight zone.…
Read MoreeDNA Explained
eDNA Explained What is eDNA? Environmental DNA (eDNA) is essentially DNA collected from the environment. As animals swim through the…
Read MoreA New Paradigm for Funding Ocean Science
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is embarking on a journey to explore and understand one of our planet’s last hidden frontiers—the ocean twilight zone (OTZ), a shadowy region far below the ocean’s sunlit surface. The OTZ project is WHOI’s first major research initiative supported by a new, disruptive funding model: The Audacious Project.
Read MoreWHOI’s Journey to the Ocean’s Twilight Zone Begins
Tests of a new towed vehicle Deep-See from the NOAA survey ship Henry B. Bigelow will begin to build a detailed…
Read MoreWHOI Plunges into Ocean ‘Twilight Zone’ with NASA, NSF to Explore Global Carbon Flow
A large multidisciplinary team of scientists, equipped with advanced underwater robotics and an array of analytical instrumentation, will set sail for the northeastern Pacific Ocean this August. The team’s mission for NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is to study the life and death of the small organisms that play a critical role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and in the ocean’s carbon cycle. The expedition will mark an important step in growing efforts to explore and understand the ocean’s twilight zone.
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