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  • Pumice: Just Scratching the Surface
    Aug 27 2012 - 11:34am

  • Rapa Whelks: Invaders of the Chesapeake Bay
    Jul 5 2011 - 5:03pm
    During the summer of 1998, scientists at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science made a series of disturbing discoveries in the Chesapeake Bay. In June, they collected an unusual specimen: a single...

  • Reducing the Risk of Transporting Invasive Species
    Jul 5 2011 - 5:24pm
    When people sail the sea, marine organisms tag along. If carried long distances, these hitchhikers can invade and disrupt ecosystems far from their natural homes, pushing out the local species. Some...

  • Reef Rescue: Protect Coral Reefs with Your Actions
    Dec 15 2009 - 12:25pm
    Coral reefs are beautiful, vibrant ecosystems that house roughly one quarter of all marine species and provide billions of dollars in products and services to humans each year. But they are also...

  • Rough Going for Orange Roughy
    Jul 5 2011 - 2:33pm
    In the dark, cold waters 600 meters (nearly 2000 feet) below the ocean's surface, things happen slowly. Orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus), deep ocean fish that were once known as "slimeheads"...

  • Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea
    Oct 15 2012 - 1:44pm
    Welcome to Moorea, a tiny, isolated island in the middle of the vast Pacific. Moorea is 132 square kilometers (51 square miles) of tropical ecosystems – from jungle and wetlands to beaches and coral...

  • Scientists Discover Seven New Species of Fish
    Mar 10 2011 - 8:55pm
    Starksia blennies, small coral reef fish with elongated bodies, have been well-studied for more than 100 years. But things are not always what they seem when it comes to fish. Using genetic analysis...

  • Scientists From Woods Hole Respond to Gulf Oil Spill
    May 10 2011 - 6:10pm
    Oil Spill Pioneers: A look back at the pioneers and oil spill research that stretches back more than four decades at WHOI. CREDIT: Justin E. Stumberg/U.S. Navy How Much Oil?: Scientists...

  • Scientists Use Bioacoustics to Protect Marine Mammals
    Sep 20 2011 - 12:27pm
    In the late 1990's, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invented the D-Tag—a radio device that can be attached by suction cups to a whale's back. Using a tiny underwater...

  • Scientists Work to Predict and Prevent Algae Blooms
    Jul 5 2011 - 6:20pm
    Algae, like all organisms, normally grow in balance with their ecosystems, limited by the amount of nutrients in the water. But sometimes, certain species of algae reproduce so rapidly that they...

  • Seagrass and Seagrass Beds
    Feb 27 2013 - 9:38pm
    Around 100 million years ago, grass from land adapted to live and reproduce while submerged in seawater—the modern-day seagrasses. This sea invasion by land plants happened four separate times,...

  • Seamounts: Underwater Oases
    Dec 4 2009 - 3:45pm
    Thousands of seamounts—most of them undersea volcanoes—tower above the muddy seafloor. They provide something hard to come by in the deep ocean: a solid surface to cling to. Corals, sponges, and...