Seal Facts - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2024年4月11日 · Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate families—phocidae (eared seals), otaridae (non-eared seals), and odobenidae (walruses)—that are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land. Where do they come from? Evidence suggests that pinnipeds evolved from a bear-like land animal that hunted in the water for food.
Is sea-level rise exaggerated? - Woods Hole Oceanographic …
2022年9月19日 · Cazanave, A., et al. 2018. Global sea-level budget 1993-present. Earth System Science Data, vol. 10. doi: 10.5194/essd-10-1551-2018.
Ocean Topic: Biological Carbon Pump - Woods Hole …
2020年9月10日 · The biological carbon pump removes atmospheric carbon by transporting carbon-rich material from surface waters to the deep ocean, aiding climate regulation.
WHOI's best of 2024 - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
A year of steady sailing, charting bold new courses.
2025 Potential Projects - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
An Antarctic Weddell seal breeding colony at the base of the world’s southernmost active volcano, Mt. Erebus. (NMFS 23273) In the Marine Mammal Physiology lab, we study adaptations that allow animals to ‘make a living’ in extreme and dynamic environments, and the selective pressures shaping life history strategies.
Rising Sea Levels and Moving Shorelines
2004年11月16日 · Changes to the shoreline are inevitable and inescapable. Shoals and sandbars become islands and then sandbars again. Ice sheets grow and shrink, causing sea level to fall and rise as water moves from the oceans to the ice caps and back to the oceans. Barrier islands rise from the seafloor,…
Scientists Find that Squid Can Detect Sounds
2010年10月15日 · The ordinary squid, Loligo pealii, is well known as a kind of floating buffet. “Almost every type of marine organism feeds somehow off squid,” said biologist T. Aran Mooney, a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Not just fish, but also many birds, seals, sea lions, dolphins, and…
How are seashells made? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Calcium carbonate, the main mineral found in shells (including eggshells), binds to the protein. If you have ever seen construction workers build with concrete, this is similar.
Pilot Whales the ‘Cheetahs of the Deep Sea’
2008年5月19日 · Until now, what happened in the depths, where many whales hunt, stayed there. A new study has revealed that pilot whales are “the cheetahs of the deep sea,” making 15-minute, high-speed, all-or-nothing dives up to 3,280 feet (1,000 meters) deep to chase and catch large squid, before surfacing to catch their breath.
A New Deep-Sea Robot Called Sentry
2009年3月19日 · There’s been a changing of the guard among deep-sea exploration vehicles. Sentry, a new undersea robot built by engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), completed its first scientific mission last summer, scouting out sites for an undersea observatory network off the coast of Washington state. Sentry is the successor…