Sometimes, the most productive research location is in remote regions. Other times it's at home, watching the grass grow! @wcvb5.bsky.social recently visited @whoi.edu to learn more about eelgrass, a vital coastal ecosystem, and what our researchers are doing to restore it. Happy Earth Week! 🌎 🌱

71% of our planet is ocean, but you wouldn’t know it from traditional maps. Shift your land-based perspective this Earth Week with a story about the Spilhaus Projection map and the WHOI oceanographer who created it: go.whoi.edu/spilhausmap

A small break from doomscrolling. 🐾

Florence + The Machine was such a life giving show. 🎤👻

It was fascinating to revisit the Sandy River for @nytimes.com A recent deal could lead to the removal of four downstream dams, breathing new life into the salmon restoration. #maine #atlanticsalmon #fish #wildlife #climate #dams www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/s...

How many times have I listened to this album? Yes.

Seeing my favorite ski areas post AI slop for April Fools’ Day is disheartening to say the least…

Another silly little mental health walk.

A belated birthday beach trip for Mason. 🐾

Me: *Writes a sentence* Grammarly: "STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO AI TEXT!!!!"

"Yet the same study found that 64 percent of Americans are at least 'somewhat worried' about global warming." (2/2) insideclimatenews.org/news/1903202...

"The fall 2025 Climate Change in the American Mind survey found that only 17 percent of Americans say they hear about global warming in the media 'at least once a week,' the lowest percentage since the question was added to the twice-yearly effort in 2015." (1/2)

One of my favorite WHOI relics to learn about! 👇

📣New today: A WHOI-led study uncovers a hidden mix of molecules released by marine phytoplankton, tiny compounds that feed ocean microbes and help power the planet’s carbon cycle. 📲Learn more about this @microbialplanet.bsky.social research: go.whoi.edu/phytoplankton-metabolites

Mood this week:

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Likely the last turns of the season. ⛷️

Okay, fine. I'll rewatch them all. 💫🪛🕙

At 7:03 pm on March 11, during a live update, the daylong standoff and protest in South Burlington escalated with agents using flash bangs and pepper spray leading to a chaotic scene. As it happened: https://www.wcax.com/2026/03/12/demonstrators-arrested-during-chaotic-ice-protest-south-burlington/

Sounds for a foggy Saturday 🌊

Basically snacked my way around Rhode Island…

A two-year mission across the Coral Triangle will probe how viruses and reef ecosystems could help some corals withstand rising ocean temperatures. www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

Fish are friends 🐠 @newenglandaquarium.bsky.social

It's a Blizzard! MBL is closed, but our snow team is out there keeping campus safe. Huge thanks to the crew braving the storm! ❄️ Watch live: https://go.mbl.edu/live

This 👇

This is a top tier winter. ❄️

The earliest preserved whale songs have been hiding on Cape Cod for nearly eight decades! Find out where they were found and what they can reveal about an earlier ocean in the WHOI Press Room: go.whoi.edu/pr-1949

Life lately. ❄️

It's crazy how long this has been going on...

I graduated from college eight years ago and have finally paid off ✨one✨ student loan. Only like a decade of painful payments left to go!

Wasn't that a mighty storm? 🥶 No matter where you live, your weather is influenced by the ocean. Find out what it takes to study the complex interplay between air and sea—and create forecasts that help us stay ahead of the storms: go.whoi.edu/oceanweather

Coffee shop or indoor pool?

Making the most of winter. ❄️⛸️

Oil spills in the ocean typically don’t reach beyond a few hundred miles. But when oil meets plastic debris, it can travel much, much farther.

I’ve already destroyed my ankle for the day, but at least the vibes are here?? ⛷️

What looks like a peaceful marine snail inching across a soft coral is actually the result of an evolutionary battle. In this ongoing “arms race,” soft corals evolved powerful toxins to ward off predators, but the flamingo tongue snail developed genes and proteins to neutralize those toxins.

✈️ #AtmosphericRiver tracking is going global! 🌍 Led by @cw3escripps.bsky.social & @noaa.gov, the AR Reconnaissance program is expanding worldwide, partnering w/ research teams across the globe to sharpen forecasts of extreme weather and better protect communities. @financialtimes.com shares more. ⬇️

Oil has places to go. Important places. Inconvenient places. Sometimes 5,000 miles away on a piece of plastic that shouldn't really be there. Scientists from @whoi.edu and @northeasternu.bsky.social traced it back the source and found out how it made its way to Florida’s Treasure Coast.

In your 20's, your friends will ask you to ski with them. It's important you say yes. ⛷️

Take a break from doomscrolling and enjoy some Mason. 🌊🐾

Hard news week. I keep coming back to the seal video

How's Rhode Island doing when it comes to marine pollution? According to @savethebayri.bsky.social --in 2025, local volunteers collected 117,396 total pieces of trash weighing 15,561 pounds. Read their full international coastal cleanup report: savebay.org/wp-content/u...

Went on a little lunchtime adventure yesterday. 10/10 ☕️🥑🍳

“Overall, the results of the meta-analysis on how people perceive climate-related risks indicate that our understanding is limited and flawed, which may delay necessary action.”

NASA says a crew member on the International Space Station is unwell. The agency canceled a planned spacewalk for Thursday and is taking the rare step of ending the Crew-11 mission early. n.pr/49cptjF

Weather is intense. ❄️

I'm not usually thrilled to receive out-of-office emails...but someone linked this livestream to fill the time until they return, and I love it. Enjoy! 🌊🐠

A new U.S. Postal Service rule for how your mail is handled could affect your ballot, taxes and more. The rule, which went into effect on Christmas Eve, redefines the meaning of a postmark, the date mark printed on most mailed items. Tim McPhillips has more.

From sonar to deep-sea mapping, ocean science plays a key role in national security. Find out what the future holds from WHOI’s Oceanographic Systems Lab Director, Carl Hartsfield: go.whoi.edu/hartsfieldocean

Wondering what happened with Quidnessett’s rock wall? So is @savethebayri.bsky.social