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Oceanography

A man hangs over the edge of a boat, deploying an Argo float into the ocean
Project Argo
Published Summer 2021
Inside the oceans, autonomous floats take the temperature and pulse of our changing saltwater world. Two Hopkins alums helped send this fleet on its way. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Image of a dead fish on a hook
Global warming
Currents of change
Published Summer 2021
The complex relationship between climate change and the oceans already affects our lives, and as the planet warms, we haven't seen the worst of it / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Louis Whitcomb in an orange snowsuit
Extreme robotics
Deep down below
Published Summer 2021
For almost three decades, Whiting School Professor Louis Whitcomb has developed tools and vehicles that enable oceanographers to explore once-unreachable depths / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Marine ecology
Canaries in cold seas
Published Spring 2016
One-millimeter mollusks could hold clues to the health of oceans / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Microscopic look at a cluster of a coccolithophore
Plankton problems?
Published Nov 26, 2015
Study: Rapid growth in plankton population in North Atlantic could indicate significant climate change