Oceanus

Senior biologist and WHOI Emeritus Research Scholar Michael Moore explains why there's still hope for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
He tells his story in front of a live audience in Woods Hole for "Making Waves: A Science Story Slam," the culmination of a first-of-its-kind science storytelling workshop hosted by the Transom Story Lab and Atlantic Public Media in June 2025.
(Original photo by Liz Lerner, Artwork by Daniel Hentz)

The ocean is brimming with sounds, from the crackle of snapping shrimp to the deep bellows of humpback whales.
Amelia Macapia, a WHOI guest investigator and a contributor for Oceanus Magazine, explains how studying acoustic ecology led her to fall into a deep love with the sea.
She tells her story in front of a live audience in Woods Hole for "Making Waves: A Science Story Slam," the culmination of a first-of-its-kind science storytelling workshop hosted by the Transom Story Lab and Atlantic Public Media in June 2025.
(Original photo by Liz Lerner, Artwork by Daniel Hentz)

A WHOI marine chemist studies how mercury pollution in Colombia’s Amazon threatens the Indigenous way of life.
Story written and narrated by Rachel Mann.
Read the full story at https://go.whoi.edu/toxicgoldmining

We sit down with the WHOI Oceanographer Emeritus and one of the lead navigators on ocean explorer Robert Ballard's 1985 team to learn what the expedition was like and how it's impacted her life since.
Produced by Daniel Hentz with editing from Evan Lubofsky.
Audio from the discovery courtesy of WHOI Archives and the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF).

WHOI scientists are part of a team working to turn seaweed into biofuel.
Written by Alison Pearce Stevens and narrated by Scott Dickson.
Read along by going to https://go.whoi.edu/seaweedfuel
Photography by Jennifer Adler, © Jennifer Adler Photography.