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The WHOI Marine Mammal Center (MMC), fosters research on whales, dolphins, and seals, including their behavior, health, anatomy, and perception; methods to free entangled whales and the causes of strandings; and marine mammal populations' link to ocean conditions and plankton abundance. A particular focus is the endangered north Atlantic right ...
Gobies and Shrimp. Small fish called gobies and certain species of pistol shrimp are nearly inseparable. As youngsters, they form a relationship that lasts until adulthood, foraging for food and living together in burrows in the seafloor. The pistol shrimp has poor vision, making it vulnerable to predators when out foraging.
Plastics could present a risk to both marine animals and humans since they may contain toxic chemicals like phthalates, bisphenol A and others used in the manufacturing process. These additives can change the properties of plastic items in different ways. For example, they may make water bottles more rigid, and pens more flexible.
He and members of his lab participated in the research cruise led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution marine geochemist Ken Buesseler off the coast of Japan in June 2011. Analyzing plankton and fish sampled on the cruise, they consistently found cesium-134 and cesium-137. Not surprisingly, they found no iodine-131, the isotope which along ...
Over the past three years, a research team led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), collected and analyzed samples from 370 marine animals, encompassing 33 species of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises, sharks, and seabirds, ranging from Kent Island, Canada, to Virginia. WHOI biologists Andrea Bogomolni, Michael Moore, and Rebecca ...
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. A scuba diver in the open water is immersed in clear, pure blue light. Water strongly absorbs red, orange, and yellow light, while blue light penetrates into the depths. (Larry Madin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Light in the ocean is like light in no other place on Earth.
The seafloor and water column from 3,000 to 6,500 meters (9,842 to 21,325 feet) depth is known as the abyssal zone, or the abyss. Sunlight doesn’t penetrate to these depths, so the waters here are extremely dark, and the animals that live here often use bioluminescence to communicate. The seafloor itself consists of large plains broken by ...
The resulting bathypelagic, or midnight, zone extends to about 4,000 meters (about 13,100 feet), which reaches the ocean floor in many places. In addition to the lack of light, the midnight zone is characterized by a steady temperature of around 4° Celsius (39° Fahrenheit). Life that exists in this zone must be able to function in cold ...
Frequency Ranges of Marine Animal Sounds. For selected animals likely to be in or near Cape Cod coastal waters. By Kate Madin | October 5, 2012. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is the world's leading non-profit oceanographic research organization. Our mission is to explore and understand the ocean and to educate scientists, students ...
Woods Hole, Mass. -- Tagging marine animals with sensors to track and study their movements can provide researchers with important environmental and behavioral information, including energy usage, habitat changes, and migration patterns. But existing techniques to attach sensors currently largely rely on invasive physical anchors, suction cups ...