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Thanks to WHOI-developed acoustic buoy technology recently featured in Popular Science, collisions between whales and ships could become a thing of the past.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and The CMA CGM Group, a global player in sea, land, air, and logistics solutions, have deployed an acoustic monitoring buoy 33 miles off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia. A second buoy is slated for deployment off the coast of Savannah, Georgia in the coming weeks.

Test deployment of WHOI vehicle expands Coast Guard capabilities.

Mark BAUMGARTNER is a senior scientist and marine ecologist in the biology department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who focuses on studying the behavior of the ocean's top predators. In the last decade, his lab has deployed buoys and gliders armed with passive acoustic recorders to listen for and detect whale movements in areas along the U.S. coast. His lab's sound research has become the groundwork powering Whale Safe, a new mapping and analysis tool launched in September of 2020 that overlays whale and ship location data to reduce fatal collisions. We sat down with BAUMGARTNER to discuss how passive acoustics studies have evolved over the years at WHOI, and how Whale Safe is a great way to build upon this research.

A pool of black oil shimmers on the tanker's rusty red deck. It's not fresh oil, but rather, a sheet of fossilized sludge that hints at the vessel's deteriorating condition and dire need of maintenance.

WHOI-NOAA collaboration aims to protect endangered species from lethal ship strikes and noise from offshore wind construction

Newly located acoustic buoys will alert mariners of the presence of whales near critical U.S. ports.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will assist the National Transportation Safety Board as it undertakes its second search April 18, 2016, for the vessel data recorder (VDR) of the sunken El Faro cargo ship.

Research vessel has multibeam sonar to survey the seafloor.

Transportation and warmer ocean temperatures could play a role.

New York(s expanded port caused unseen changes in Newark Bay.

Researchers test out thermal IR cameras for whale detection in British Columbia's Gulf Islands

Deep-sea vehicles locate data recorder on the seafloor

New navigation system helps autonomous vehicles find their way.

Ship-mounted camera system provides real-time detection and increased response time, which could reduce the number of whales killed by vessel strikes.

The 1.5-million-ton behemoth was on the loose.

When a fire broke out on the deck of the M/V XPress Pearl cargo ship on May 20, 2021, an estimated 70-75 billion pellets of preproduction plastic material, known as nurdles, spilled into the ocean and along the Sri Lankan coastline. That spill of about 1,500 tons of nurdles, many of which were burnt by the fire, has threatened marine life and poses a complex clean-up challenge.

The vessel will help track hurricane intensity and other ocean conditions across the Loop Current on its regular route between Jamaica and New Orleans