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A cartoon cereal box is called “Phyt-O’s: the phytoplankton of the future” and shows a happy plankton with a bowl of plankton. Bubbles say “Carbs!” and “Protein?!”

Climate change may produce “fast-food” phytoplankton

March 31, 2026

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

A microscopic image of SAR11, a type of pelagibacterales, which look like worms.

New Study Illuminates Invisible Architects of the Ocean’s Carbon Cycle

May 22, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs

Featured video: Investigating our blue ocean planet

February 15, 2023

Categories: Climate, Life + Environments, Research

In the dark ocean, a cartoon illustration shows a green oval microbe Prochlorococcus eating a dead purple microbe that looks like a Cheeto. A few other microbes appear in background.

Ocean microbes get their diet through a surprising mix of sources, study finds

November 3, 2022

Categories: Climate, Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

Purple and teal video still details the eddies, mapped using contour lines and color, of the North Pacific Ocean, around a tiny Hawaii, in black.

Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes

October 3, 2022

Categories: Health of the Planet, Life + Environments, Research

MIT-WHOI Joint Program announces new leadership

June 27, 2022

Categories: Awards + Promotions

A systems level approach to biogeography

January 31, 2022

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Predator interactions chiefly determine where Prochlorococcus thrive

January 3, 2022

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

Explaining diversity patterns among marine phytoplankton

August 17, 2021

Categories: Life + Environments, Research

Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon emissions as much as previously thought

October 1, 2020

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

Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change

February 17, 2020

Categories: Health of the Planet, Research

Exploring phytoplankton diversity

February 11, 2020

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research