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Part 1: What makes the shelf break front such a productive and diverse part of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean? A group of scientists on the research vessel Neil Armstrong spent two weeks at sea in 2018 as part of a three-year, NSF-funded project to find out. 

Video by Science Media © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

Part 2: What makes the shelf break front such a productive and diverse part of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean? A group of scientists on the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson spent two weeks at sea in 2019 as part of a three-year, NSF-funded project.

Video by Science Media © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Oxygen is like money for Earth, and the ocean acts like a bank. Oxygen is tightly connected to life in the ocean, and can tell us a lot about an ecosystem’s health and productivity. WHOI scientists are exploring means to create an ocean oxygen budget, which has been difficult until now.  

Mar 2020 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 

By Elaine Krebs, Jack Delac, and Robert Smat 

Winner of First Prize in 2016 USC Science Film Competition   http://sciencefilm.usc.edu 

A study from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows that the efficiency of the ocean’s “biological carbon pump” has been drastically underestimated. Marine chemist Ken Buesseler and colleagues consider a new metric for estimating the depth of the ocean's sunlit layer, thus its ability to take up carbon. 

Apr 2020 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Video by Elise Hugus, UnderCurrent Productions 

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution biologist Aran Mooney and Casey Zakroff, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, describe their study on how ocean acidification is affecting squid, a key species in the marine food web and a multi-million dollar fishery.  October 2014.

© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Video by Elise Hugus, UnderCurrent Productions