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Andrew Babbin sits inside with Boston skyline in background.

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

February 6, 2025

Categories: Faculty, Profile

Student Spotlight: Emma Bulllock on researching extreme environments

April 19, 2024

Categories: Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.

Studying rivers from worlds away

July 10, 2023

Categories: Faculty, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

3 cartoony green microbes ride a raft made of shell on a blue ocean. One microbe has a telescope to look ahead. A sign in the water says they are heading towards to the “Ocean.”

Like ancient mariners, ancestors of Prochlorococcus microbes rode out to sea on exoskeleton particles

May 11, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet

February 15, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

Student Spotlight: Ciara Willis on balancing ocean research and fieldwork

February 1, 2023

Categories: Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

A black and white photo of three albatrosses standing together; the one in the middle has it's wings stretched out almost protectively around the other two.

Divorce is more common in albatross couples with shy males, study finds

September 13, 2022

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

MIT-WHOI Joint Program announces new leadership

June 27, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions

Outstanding at AGU 2021

April 27, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Students + Postdocs

Floating robots capture data from the planet’s warming oceans

August 9, 2021

Categories: Alumni, Health of the Planet, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Lauren Dykman in a research wet lab.

Student Spotlight: Lauren Dykman on falling in love with deep-sea parasites

July 14, 2021

Categories: Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Malanotte-Rizzoli and Stone shape the future of climate and ocean science

June 11, 2021

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Climate, Faculty

Lei Ma, left. Lydia Babcock Adams, right.

Student Spotlight: Lei Ma & Lydia Babcock-Adams

June 2, 2021

Categories: Life + Environments, Profile, Students + Postdocs

Students in the Surface Processes Group on learning the lay of the land

April 28, 2021

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Life + Environments, Profile, Research, Students + Postdocs

Deep diving into seawater

April 22, 2021

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research, Students + Postdocs

Ancient atmospheric oxygen sleuthing with ocean chromium

March 22, 2021

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Student Spotlight: Paris Smalls

February 1, 2021

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

The Creepy, Unbelievably Inspiring World of Deep Sea Parasites

January 13, 2021

Categories: Research, Students + Postdocs

Study reconstructs ancient storms to predict changes in a cyclone hotspot

November 17, 2020

Categories: Alumni, Natural Hazards, Research

Spotlight: Kayla Gardner explores the Ocean Twilight Zone

October 16, 2020

Categories: Life + Environments, Profile, Research, Students + Postdocs