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Woods Hole, MA (March 25, 2022) – A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution-led research team has been awarded $7.6 million from the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM).

The wreckage of what is believed to be a more than 200-year-old whaling ship was discovered at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The wreckage of what is believed to be a more than 200-year-old whaling ship was discovered at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

The brig Industry was built in Westport, Massachusetts in 1815. The whaling ship was destroyed in a storm off the coast of Louisiana in 1836.

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Newswise — When the Slocum glider known as NG645 was deployed about 80 miles south of New Orleans on Oct. 10, 2021, it became one of the most closely watched ocean-observing instruments in the Gulf of Mexico.

For the last seven years, Florida’s Coral Reef (FCR) has suffered from widespread and severe coral loss caused by stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD). First observed off the coast of Miami-Dade county in 2014, the outbreak has since spread throughout the entirety of FCR and some areas of the Caribbean. However, the propagation of the disease through FCR seemed to slow down when it reached the western end of the Marquesas in August 2020. Despite being present about 30 km (~20 miles) from th...

There are few environments as unforgiving as the ocean. Its unpredictable weather patterns and limitations in terms of communications have left large

Ocean engineers and mechanical engineers at MIT, including Wim van Rees, Michael Benjamin, and Pierre Lermusiaux, are utilizing advances in scientific computing to address the ocean’s many challenges, and seize its opportunities.

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