Featured Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | January 17, 2017

  Observing and Modeling the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice: A Meeting in Woods Hole

  Last November, a group of MIT researchers joined scientists from around the world to attend the fifth meeting of the Forum for Arctic Modeling & Synthesis (FAMOS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 17, 2017

  Mother-of-Pearl Holds the Key to Historical Ocean Temperatures

  Studying this iridescent material in mollusk shells may give scientists a more accurate way to track historical ocean temps.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | January 10, 2017

  Short-lived greenhouse gases cause centuries of sea-level rise

  Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News, WHOI | January 8, 2017

  Dr. Don Anderson: Using robots to measure toxins in the ocean

  Funded by MIT Sea Grant, Dr. Don Anderson’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and others has developed a robotic system that can monitor blooms of toxic algae and their toxins in real time.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 5, 2017

  Communicating Under Sea Ice

  Engineers use ocean channel to efficiently relay sound
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | January 2, 2017

  Students, academics, and entrepreneurs join forces to tackle the future of water utilities

  Fifth annual MIT Water Summit brings together interdisciplinary panelists to give multiple perspectives on major issues surrounding the water sector.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 20, 2016

  Samuel A. Bowring Receives 2016 Walter H. Bucher Medal

  Samuel A. Bowring was awarded the 2016 Walter H. Bucher Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 14 December 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "original contributions to the basic knowledge of crust and lithosphere."
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | December 19, 2016

  New study sets oxygen-breathing limit for ocean’s hardiest organisms

  Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | November 23, 2016

  Saharan Dust in the Wind

  Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | November 18, 2016

  Replicating Ancient Fossilization

  Using modern microbes to understand the preservation of marine bacteria
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | November 16, 2016

  Pluto’s icy, slushy heart

  Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | November 11, 2016

  Big Ice, Big Science

  Richard Alley delivers the 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland, and Boston and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | October 25, 2016

  2015 & 2016 Rossby Awards Announced

  Jill McDermott '15 and Joern Callies '16 have been awarded the Rossby Prize for their respective theses.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | October 25, 2016

  Discovering Extreme Weather

  Incoming freshmen experience life in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheres and Planetary Sciences through weather and climate experiments and a hike up Mt. Washington during the 2016 Discovering EAPS (DEAPS) Freshman Pre-Orientation Program.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | October 25, 2016

  Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91

  Former head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering is remembered for his innovation, entrepreneurship, and vision for ocean engineering.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | October 20, 2016

  New 13-year Study Tracks Impact of Changing Climate on a Key Marine Food Source

  A new multiyear study from scientists at WHOI has shown for the first time how changes in ocean temperature affect a key species of phytoplankton.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | October 5, 2016

  Beaver-inspired wetsuits in the works

  Rubbery hair-lined wetsuits may help keep surfers warm.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | September 28, 2016

  Ferrari Receives Prestigious Award for Excellence in Oceanography

  Raffaele Ferrari, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, has been selected to receive the 2016 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | September 28, 2016

  Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves

  Better simulations of internal tides may benefit sonar communications, protect offshore structures, and more.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | September 23, 2016

  MIT Researchers Prove Fast Microbial Evolutionary Bursts Exist

  Study reveals closely related microbes can diversify rapidly via horizontal gene transfer.