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  1. Marine Mammals - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Nov 6, 2025 · Marine mammals are warm-blooded vertebrates that bear live young and nourish them with milk as land mammals do, but that spend most or all of their lives in the ocean.

  2. A new tagging method for fragile marine species – Woods Hole ...

    Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors (BIMS) can be attached to marine animals in less than 20 seconds. Traditional tagging methods could take up to ten minutes, causing stress to …

  3. How Is Fukushima’s Fallout Affecting Marine Life?

    May 2, 2013 · How much radioactivity gets into marine life depends on a host of factors: How long the organisms are exposed to radioactivity is certainly important, but so too are the sizes and …

  4. 5 surprising symbiotic relationships in the ocean

    May 24, 2024 · How certain marine species keep each other safe, fed, and healthy through symbiotic relationships in the ocean

  5. Carbon Dioxide, Shell Building, and Ocean Acidification

    All these ions are in seawater surrounding shell-building marine life. Carbon dioxide (CO 2) dissolves in the ocean and reacts with water to form carbonic acid—which in turn generates …

  6. Sea Life Is Accumulating Pathogens - Woods Hole Oceanographic …

    Aug 21, 2008 · The finding also questions the degree of contamination in coastal waters from treated and untreated sewage discharges or rainwater and river runoff. And it raises concerns …

  7. Ocean Topic: Biological Carbon Pump

    Nov 15, 2024 · What is the biological carbon pump? When sunlight hits the ocean’s surface waters, it stimulates tiny marine plants called phytoplankton to photosynthesize. This process …

  8. Midnight Zone - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Dec 19, 2024 · The midnight zone, or bathypelagic, extends to about 4,000 meters (about 13,100 feet), which reaches the ocean floor in many places is in perpetual darkness.

  9. How Do Marine Mammals Avoid the Bends? - Woods Hole …

    Apr 25, 2018 · Deep-diving whales and other marine mammals can get the bends - the same painful and potentially life-threatening decompression sickness that strikes scuba divers who …

  10. Shedding Light on Light in the Ocean - Woods Hole …

    Oct 15, 2004 · Computer models offer a way to approach this deficit. Combining available observations with new, accurate computer models that simulate how light behaves and …