WHOI selected by NASA to investigate ocean worlds and their organic carbon cycles
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Published: 3 December 2025
NASA selects WHOI to lead InvOW, a five-year project linking 16 labs to study organic carbon on ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus, preparing scientists for future life-detection missions.
Keywords: ocean worlds, NASA, Europa, Enceladus, astrobiology, organic carbon, life detection, space exploration
A first for RRS Sir David Attenborough: science in the dark
British Antarctic Survey
Published: 27 March 2026
The first polar winter science cruise on the RRS Sir David Attenborough maps Antarctic glacial seabeds and reveals how ocean processes drive wintertime glacier melting in perpetual darkness.
Keywords: Antarctica, Southern Ocean, winter research, glacier melting, RRS Sir David Attenborough, polar oceanography, sea ice
Plankton Bloom in the Labrador Sea
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Published: 30 March 2026
An international team aboard the RV MARIA S. MERIAN investigates how currents and fronts transport heat and nutrients during the spring plankton bloom, a major carbon sink in the subpolar North Atlantic.
Keywords: plankton bloom, Labrador Sea, physical oceanography, carbon sink, ocean currents, North Atlantic, expedition
