The past is the key to the future.

Hines Paleoceanography and Climate Lab

We study changes in the ocean and how they interact with Earth's climate system. Some of these events are abrupt and others occur over many thousands of years. By unraveling the drivers of past climate change we can build better tools to understand what will happen in the future.

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We are off to sea!

Sophie is leading a research cruise this summer in the Labrador Sea to examine the role of sediment exchange in sourcing dissolved rare earth elements to seawater. You can follow along here.

New paper published in Science

Our new paper in Science re-evaluates changes in ocean circulation through the Mid-Pleistocene Transition using high-resolution records of neodymium, carbon, and oxygen isotopes.

New article out in Oceanus

In January, Sophie did an interview with Oceanus about how we learn about the past ocean from studying deep-sea coral fossils.

New article published in Nature Comms

New deep-sea coral neodymium isotope data from south of Tasmania highlight the importance of inter-ocean exchange during the last glacial cycle. Check out this new study led by Torben Struve.

GNOM v1.0 model paper published

Our paper describing the new neodymium model GNOM v1.0 just came out in Geoscientific Model Development.

Join the lab

Undergraduates

The Summer Student Fellowship allows rising seniors to complete research projects with mentorship from WHOI sponsors.

Graduate Students

The MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography is the PhD program here at WHOI in tandem with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

Postdocs

WHOI's Postdoctoral Scholar Program is an 18-month award for recent PhD graduates. Postdoc Scholars conduct independent research in collaboration with WHOI scientists and/or senior technical staff.