Northeast US Shelf LTER

Super interesting work by our Post-Doc, Lucas Medeiros: A Nonequilibrium Framework for Community Responses to Pulse Perturbations - Medeiros - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @whoi.edu @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded

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Our winter transect cruise is underway on the RV Armstrong. Our team will spend 5 days stitching a line across the Northeast US Shelf sampling the winter ecosystem. Fair wind & seas with mild temps for the crew! @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @smast @uslter.bsky.social Thank you #nsf

It's winter transect cruise time on the Northeast US Shelf and we're lucky to be heading out on the RV Neil Armstrong next week. Understanding the valuable ecosystem on the shelf and how it responds to change over the long term is such critical work. Funded by NSF. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu

🎉 It’s been a big year for ocean science here at WHOI!⁠
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Celebrate with us! Check out what made the ocean world go round in 2025: whoi.edu/best-of-2025

NES-LTER

When you invite a member of the @whoi.edu Comms group to come on a research cruise, you get great video interviews! Check out our latest NES-LTER Team Member Stories on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@nes-lter530... @uslter.bsky.social

Students participating in the NES-LTER Data Jam (sites.google.com/view/nes-lte...) are learning to think with data and make data moves AND communicate the story they see in the data. Thanks, Tim, for this great break down!

Melendez on the R/V Endeavor for BRUV buoyancy tests

Melendez on the R/V Endeavor for BRUV buoyancy tests

🌉 🌊 The Bridge to Ocean Exploration (B2OE) program connects CCRI students with #URIGSO labs and NOAA OECI mentors, where they spend 6–8 hours a week working on ocean-science projects—everything from engineering long-deployment camera hardware to building data tools used by our researchers.

Oceanus

Check out "The Little Big Picture" in the latest issue of Oceanus magazine, in which Lead PI, Heidi Sosik, talks about the value of LONG TERM research. cloud.3dissue.com/2331/3058/67...

Where is the Neil Armstrong Now? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Following a great PR event @whoi.edu on Friday, our research team boarded the RV Armstrong for our fall transect cruise. When the weather is rough, go long first! #nsf @uslter.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu #umassd Follow their work with the tracker: www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e...

Where can we find the explanation of the data and how it's represented in this visual? I'd love to share this with students who participate in our Data Jam!

Our Lead PI, Heidi Sosik, talks about the importance of long term study in regions such as the Northeast US Shelf.

Thank you to the #RVEndeavor crew for your service, from the shipboard to the maintenance, you served our project graciously. We will miss you!

Learning to analyze, interpet, and manage data is an absolutely essential skill, not only in science, but across the board. Excited to see this resource for educator!

Hey, good idea! Calling all NES LTER photographers! The contest is on! ; )

Our summer transect cruise has safely returned. Although, this "mixing event" would be interesting to survey...

map image showing a transect line followed by the RV Neil Armstrong south of Martha's Vineyard to the edge of the continental shelf. https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/explore/ships/ships-neil-armstrong/neil-armstrong-tracker/

Our summer transect cruise is on track! We can't wait to see all of the data and wave photos. Any unusual Hemiaulus blooms? Nice to get it all done before Erin "goes safely out to sea". #nsf @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @noaa.gov

We'll be there!

Opinion | Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.

🌊 Investing in ocean science positions the U.S. as a leader in resilience and national security. Scripps' Margaret Leinen joins @whoi.edu's @pdemenocal.bsky.social & retired Navy admiral John Richardson to advocate for funding @noaa.gov, NSF & US Navy Research.

Read the @washingtonpost.com Op-Ed. ⬇️

🧪 The activity is now part of GSO’s Biological Oceanography Lab course (OCG561), helping train future researchers in "open, transparent, accessible, inclusive, and reproducible science."

Hands-On Post-Calibration of In Vivo Fluorescence Using Open Access Data: A Guided Journey from Fluorescence to Phytoplankton Biomass | Oceanography View Issue TOC Volume 38, No. 2 Pages 73 - 82

Based on Amanda Herbst’s 2021 #SURFO project, the activity helps students become acquainted with key procedures in oceanographic data acquisition, processing, validation, and management using real NES-LTER data from six #RVEndeavor cruises.

🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/tp4WLSj

📸 Deployment and recovery of the CTD-Rosette used on the R/V Endeavor to collect water samples through the water column for this activity. Photos by Jason Schaedler

📸 Deployment and recovery of the CTD-Rosette used on the R/V Endeavor to collect water samples through the water column for this activity. Photos by Jason Schaedler

🌊 Recently published in Oceanography's Ocean Education section, this new hands-on activity co-authored by #URIGSO's Pierre Marrec and Susanne Menden-Deuer guides students through the process of turning raw fluorescence into reliable, post-calibrated chlorophyll a data using open-access resources. 🧪

A graph of monthly sea surface temperature from 2000-2023 made with mini cupcakes

Data Jam 2025 projects are in and they are fabulous! This year we had students Grade 5 - 12 sharing their work, practicing making sense of data and communicating the story they see. Students are creative and clever. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded

Child assisted by adult to hang colored fabric strip and bead in a data-art display.

Tomorrow, EdOutreach Coordinator Brickley will be engaging members of the Massachusetts Marine Educators before the annual meeting with a favorite data and art all-in-one activity. If kids can do it, can the adults? @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded #mme

Thank you, Nameer!

Great fun creating a data viz, looking at plankton with Pierre, and tattooing small children with a food chain ; ) #partyfortheplanet @ButtonwoodParkZoo in New Bedford, MA @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social #nsffunded

Looks like a great cruise!

Where is the Neil Armstrong Now? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

This week, our team heads out on the spring transect cruise. While spring is blooming all around you, what's blooming out on the Northeast US Shelf? Follow along! www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e... @uslter.bsky.social Funded by NSF @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @umassdartmouth

NES-LTER conceptual model for research including two trophic pathways, disturbance timescales, and shelf cross-section.

Last week, IM Mgr Kate and EO Mgr Annette visited a Morse Pond School g.5 classroom to talk about food webs and how we learn about them on the Northeast US Shelf. Who knew our Conceptual Model would be so useful with 5th graders?! @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded

Woods Hole is lovely in the summer!