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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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An Arctica islandica shell perches on the railing of the ESS Pursuit during a research cruise in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, south of the Gulf of Maine. A new WHOI co-led study finds that rapid Gulf of Maine warming has reversed long-term cooling that occurred there within the last 900 years.

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Image credit: Nina Whitney/ © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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