MIT Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT - The Darwin Project, MIT EAPS, News | February 15, 2018

  PAOC Goes to Ocean Sciences 2018

  Look out for the EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (PAOC) sharing their work at this year’s Ocean Sciences conference taking place February 11-16 in Portland, Oregon.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 15, 2018

  Dr. Andrew Babbin is awarded the 2019 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

  Dr. Andrew Babbin, an Assistant Professor in MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, was awarded the 2019 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. Endowed by the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, the two-year chair opens the way for promising, non-tenured professors to undertake marine-related research that will further innovative uses of the ocean's resources.
• MIT News, News | February 14, 2018

  A microbial approach to agriculture

  A new special subject, Agricultural Microbial Ecology, takes students to Israel.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 12, 2018

  MIT on Chaos and Climate: A Celebration of Two Pioneers of Modern Meteorology

  MIT atmospheric scientists and trailblazers Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz gave us numerical weather prediction and chaos theory, highlighting the value of basic research.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 8, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen wins Hollings Ocean Awareness Award

  Keith Ellenbogen, a visiting artist at MIT Sea Grant was recently awarded an Ernest F. Hollings Ocean Awareness Award from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for his artistic and innovative project entitled: Space to Sea — A Photographic Journey into Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary. Keith, an assistant professor of photography at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, will work closely with Alison Nolan, Principal, Boston Harbor Cruises, to showcase the never before photographed dynamic underwater world of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to spark environmental awareness.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | February 4, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant’s FY2019 call for pre-proposals is open

  Pre-proposals are due by Tuesday March 6, 2018 by 5:00PM. Full Proposals are due by Tuesday June 12, 2018 by 5:00PM.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | January 31, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant announces four newly funded projects

  MIT Sea Grant has selected four research projects for funding from our annual request for proposals including: Making Sense of the Variability of Coastal Ocean Acidification, Measuring Acid/Base Chemistry in the Extrapallial Fluids of New England's Commercially Important Mollusks, Quantifying Coastal Ocean Acidification Impacts on Estuarine Nitrogen Removal, Magnetic Induction (MI) Wireless Underwater Data Communications: Bottom-to-Surface Ocean Temperature Monitoring
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 29, 2018

  MIT on Chaos and Climate

  A Two-Day Centenary Celebration of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz
• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | January 29, 2018

  Scientists Pinpoint How Ocean Acidification Weakens Coral Skeletons

  The rising acidity of the oceans threatens coral reefs by making it harder for corals to build their skeletons. A new study led by Nathaniel Mollica, an @MIT-@WHOI Joint Program grad student in Oceanography, identifies the details of how ocean acidification affects coral skeletons, allowing scientists to predict more precisely where corals will be more vulnerable.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | January 24, 2018

  New Type of Virus Found in the Ocean

  The unusual characteristics of these abundant, bacteria-killing viruses could lead to evolutionary insights.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 22, 2018

  Meet the Postdocs of E25

  Contributing to the Program of Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate’s McGee, Boyle and Summons labs
• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  A Double Whammy for Corals

  Global warming and local weather combine to cause massive bleaching
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  Taking Earth’s Inner Temperature

  Why the mantle may be hotter than we thought
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 19, 2018

  Microbial communities demonstrate high turnover

  New research provides insight into the behavior of microbial communities in the ocean.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 17, 2018

  A Primer on Understanding Climate Science

  MIT professor Kerry Emanuel explains the science behind climate change as well as the associated risks.
• MIT Sea Grant | January 15, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant Annual Request for Proposals

  In 2019 MIT Sea Grant will focus our funding resources on the following specific areas of marine research: aquaculture technologies, ocean acidification, underwater wireless power transmission and data communication.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 11, 2018

  School of Science welcomes three new professors this spring

  This spring, the MIT School of Science welcomes three new professors in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. EAPS Brent Minchew's research focuses on the dynamics of extant glaciers, with an emphasis on the mechanics of glacier beds, ice-ocean interactions, and ice rheology.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 6, 2018

  Nicholas Hawco PhD ’17 Receives the 2017 Rossby Award

  The award is given for the best PhD thesis done the preceding year within the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 21, 2017

  Pairing Mismatch Helps Impaired Fish RNA Cleavage Proceed Swimmingly

  Researchers at Whitehead Institute have uncovered how small changes in the fish Argonaute (Ago) protein, an RNA slicing protein, that happened in its lineage an estimated 300 million years ago greatly diminished the efficiency of RNAi in these animals, while another ancestral feature, in a critical pre-microRNA, was retained that enabled the microRNA to still be produced despite the fish’s impaired Ago protein.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | December 14, 2017

  Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence

  Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.