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To Forecast Rain, Look to the Ocean
Ever since humans have existed on Earth, they have looked to the heavens to forecast rain. But more reliable clues may lie in the ocean. New research by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has found clear links between saltier regions in the North Atlantic Ocean in the spring and increased rainfall during the following summer over areas of Africa and the US. The discovery offers potential breakthroughs to predict rainfall in regions \"where even slight variations in rainfall can be a matter of life or death for millions of people,\" said Laifang Li, a WHOI physical oceanographer. Li and colleagues suggest that saltier-than-normal areas in the ocean indicate places where evaporation has increased -- leaving salt behind and putting more fresh water vapor into the atmosphere.
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More Floods and Faster-Rising Sea Levels
Jeff Donnelly can't help but get his hands dirty in his work. You can often find him poking long, plastic cylinders into coastal marshes, or beaches, or the bottoms of lagoons -- like an apple corer into an apple -- to extract multi-layered plugs of mud and sediments. That's his paydirt. The layers built up over time, some of them forming as sea levels rose, or when hurricanes struck or storm surges flooded coastlines. Donnelly, a coastal geologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, examines the cores to reconstruct a history of geologic events on the coast. The deeper the cores, the further Donnelly can travel into the past. The past puts the present, and the future, into context in two studies Donnelly took part in that received a lot of media attention.
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How Do Larvae Find a Place to Settle Down?
A new study by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers showed that sounds created by adult fish and invertebrates may not travel far enough for larvae to hear them. \"Based on their data, it seems unlikely that larvae would be able to use sound to locate far-off reefs,\" said Max Kaplan, the study's lead author and a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. \"That was a surprise to them.\" Kaplan and his Ph.D. advisor, WHOI biologist Aran Mooney, made painstaking acoustic measurements off the Hawaiian island of Maui, placing sensors at distances ranging from zero to nearly 5,000 feet away from coral reefs. The scientists used two different types of instruments to record two different components of sound -- pressure waves and particle motion.
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Scientists and the Navy Join Forces
An intriguing email landed in Chris Reddy's inbox in February 2016. It was the electronic equivalent of a cold call from Lt. Cmdr. Jason Ziebold of the US Navy, who was soliciting Reddy's help. Reddy, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is an expert on oil spills, and Ziebold knew that he had played a big role during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. So when Reddy called back, he presumed Ziebold might be an environmental health and safety officer.
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Girls just wanna be engineers
\"Very few women go into engineering,\" said Anna Michel, \"because girls just don't get the message that they could be engineers.\" Michel, a scientist in the Applied Physics and Ocean Engineering Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), got the message, and she wants future generations to hear it louder and clearer. As part of a research grant from the National Science Foundation, Michel created the Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science Institute. The program, which began in 2016, brings in 12 girls who are about to enter the sixth grade and a science teacher for a week of activities. They toured WHOI to see deep-sea vehicles and to meet the engineers who built them and designed the sensors for them.
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