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What’s down there? WHOI study shows environmental DNA is a reliable way to learn about migration from the ocean twilight zone

November 1, 2021 sarah JonasResearch Results

The mid-ocean “twilight zone” holds the key to several tantalizing questions about the marine food web and carbon-sequestering capacity of the ocean. But studying this vast and remote area is extremely difficult.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution collaborates to bring video installation to United Nation Headquarters

September 15, 2021 sarah JonasFeature

Beginning Tuesday, September 21 and running evenings (8–11pm EST) through Friday, September 24, artist collective SUPERFLEX will project Vertical Migration onto the facade of the United Nations Secretariat Building, the UN’s signature 39-story tower. Coinciding with the 76th UN General Assembly, Vertical Migration is a dramatic, 505-foot (154-meter) video installation that draws attention to the role that the ocean—particularly the little explored region known as the ocean twilight zone—plays in global climate.

Report reveals ‘unseen’ human benefits from ocean twilight zone

January 22, 2020 sarah JonasFeature

A new report from researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) reveals for the first time the unseen—and somewhat surprising—benefits that people receive from the ocean’s twilight zone. Also known as the “mesopelagic,” this is the ocean layer just beyond the sunlit surface.