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![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.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Ocean-Relay-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes
October 3, 2022![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.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Albatross-Divorce-01-PRESS-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Divorce is more common in albatross couples with shy males, study finds
September 13, 2022![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-OxygenBuildup-01-press_0-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth’s oxygenation
March 14, 2022![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CBIOMES-microbial-simulation-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters
December 27, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-Social-Dinos-01_0-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Explaining diversity patterns among marine phytoplankton
August 17, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Selin_ERL-1-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Falling in love with deep-sea parasites
July 14, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/bySeanGallen_viaMayaStokes-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-580x0-c-default.jpg)
Learning the lay of the land
April 28, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tianyichromium-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Ancient atmospheric oxygen sleuthing with ocean chromium
March 22, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-Paleo-Mud-01-press_0-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Geologists produce new timeline of Earth’s Paleozoic climate changes
February 1, 2021![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT-coral-microbiome-01-press_1-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Field geology at a distance
December 8, 2020![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Perspective_MITGC-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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