Woods Hole, Mass. (September 27, 2024) – The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has received complementary awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
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Life Thrives In The Deepest Ocean: New Discoveries From The Mariana Trench
The latest scientific research at the deepest part of the ocean has revealed something extraordinary – biodiversity is extensive and flourishing despite the extreme conditions.
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Symbiotic Bacteria Ride Along With Marine Cells In Earth’s Oceanic Upper Layer
Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protistshost their own microbiomes.
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Submarines For Space Exploration
Submarines are emerging as a unique research platform to study human adaption to extreme environments – from ocean depths to outer space.
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Ocean World Expeditions: Remote Science At Sea With Remotely Operated Vehicles, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Conducting sea-going ocean science no longer needs to be limited to the number of berths on a ship given that telecommunications, computing, and networking technologies onboard ships have become familiar […]
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Water Planet Exploration: The Youngest Pilot Of DSV Alvin
The Wood Holes Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently announced the newest human-occupied vehicle (HOV) Alvin pilot, Kaitlyn Beardshear.
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Towards Autonomous Surface Missions on Ocean Worlds
Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and […]
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Ocean Planet Exploration Droids: Autonomous eDNA Collection Using An Uncrewed Surface Vessel
The collection of environmental DNA (eDNA) samples is often laborious, costly, and logistically difficult to accomplish at high frequency in remote locations and over large geographic areas.
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NASA’s SWIM Robot on Glacial Ice in Alaska
A model of a tiny, wedge-shaped robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons, right, sits beside a large waterproof capsule containing electronics and sensors for testing below glacial […]
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NASA’s SWIM Submersible Droid Prototypes
Two prototypes for a NASA mission concept called SWIM (short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers) are arranged beside a much smaller nonfunctioning model representing the final envisioned size of the […]