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What Makes the Great Ocean Currents Flow?
A graduate student explores the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio
Powerful
currents drive the oceans' circulation and Earth's climate. MIT/WHOI
Joint Program graduate student Stephanie Waterman has investigated the
underlying physics that drive the currents.
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News Release
Surprising Return of North Atlantic Circulation Pump
Sea Ice Decline May Actually Have Aided Ocean Overturning.
Oceanus Magazine
A Tale of Two Oceans, and the Monsoons
Tiny seafloor shells could reveal big clues to the forces that generate monsoons.
Oceanus Magazine
A Most Ingenious Paradoxical Plankton
How do similar organisms co-exist in the same ecological niche?
Oceanus Magazine
Shellfish's Mysterious Pathways to Adulthood
A grad student peers into the lives of larvae, before they grow up to be scallops.
Oceanus Magazine
A Tag Fit for a Porpoise
Grad students surmount big hurdles to build a device for a small marine mammal.
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The top of the reef
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