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An albatross couple’s chance of splitting up is highly influenced by the male partner’s personality, according to MIT and WHOI research. Though wandering albatrosses typically made for life, they sometimes “divorce,” and the new findings show females are more likely to leave shyer male partners.
The MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering has announced new leadership. Ed Boyle is stepping down as director, and Mick Follows will be taking over the position.
Credits: Photo: Kelsy Cain Next image Found in jewelry, car parts, pigments, and industrial chemical reactions, the metal chromium and its compounds are often employed for their color, finish, and anti-corrosive and catalytic properties. Currently, geoscientists and paleoceanographers from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are looking to add another use to that list: as a way to examine chemical shifts in ancient Earth’s oceans and atmosphere that are preserved in the seafloor’s paleorecord. More specifically, they want to reconstruc...