MIT Stories

• MIT, News, WHOI | April 27, 2017

  Exploring our Oceans: The Cross-talk between Marine Life and Climate Change

  Harvard's SIT'N Listen Podcast speaks with MIT and WHOI graduate students Gabriela Farfan and Hanny Rivera about how studying oceans and marine biodiversity can help us better understand and combat climate change.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 27, 2017

  3Q: Refocusing Climate Research in a New Era

  A new perspective from climate researchers argues that there are three key questions that should frame future climate research.
• Center for Global Change Science, Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT, MIT News, News | April 26, 2017

  Correcting the Records

  Climate data analyst Thomas Karl describes global temperature and precipitation measurement and interpretation in the 16th Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture.
• MIT, News, WHOI | April 20, 2017

  March for Science on Saturday — get off sidelines, make a difference

  Noelle Held, a PhD candidate in chemical oceanography at MIT and WHOI, discusses why she's proud to be part of a long history of American scientists and pioneers, and why it's important to continue supporting science, particularly this weekend.
• MIT, MIT News, News | April 20, 2017

  Amos Winter wins the Harold E. Edgerton Award

  Global leader in mechanical engineering named the recipient of MIT’s esteemed junior faculty award.
• MITgcm News, News | April 20, 2017

  Plunging into Early Paleozoic Oceans with MITgcm

  Pohl et al used a coupled ocean-atmosphere setup of the MITgcm to investigate the relationships between climate and marine biogeochemistry during the Late Ordovician (445 million years ago).
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI - Oceanus | April 20, 2017

  The Amazing Acquired Phototroph!

  Stealing parts from their prey, these hunters turn into farmers
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | April 19, 2017

  High-Speed Images Capture Archer Fish’s Rocket-Like Launch

  Insights into the hydrodynamics of the move may improve underwater vehicle design.
• MIT, MIT News, News | April 18, 2017

  MIT Quarter Century Club Welcomes New Members for 2017

  Class includes 99 new members from both the Cambridge campus and Lincoln Laboratory among them are Michael Follows, Lodovica Illari, and John Marshall.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | April 12, 2017

  Kerry Emanuel Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  Kerry A. Emanuel, the EAPS Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Co-Director of the Lorenz Center, joins the ranks of some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders in the academy.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | April 11, 2017

  Environmentalist and Explorer

  Senior Elizabeth Rider uses atmospheric chemistry research to create international connections.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | April 6, 2017

  Institute Announces New Open Access Policy for All MIT Authors

  Optional license allows students, researchers, and staff to make scholarly articles freely available.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | April 4, 2017

  Katy Bell presents ‘Into the Deep: The Nautilus Exploration Program’

  MIT Sea Grant College Program Brown Bag Seminar Wednesday April 12th at 1:30p.
• MIT - The Darwin Project, News | April 4, 2017

  Darwin Celebrates Emily’s Doctoral Defense

  Emily Zakem successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Linking Microbes and Climate: Insights into the Marine Oxygen and Nitrogen Cycles with Microbial Metabolic Functional Types" on March 24.
• MIT, News, WHOI | April 3, 2017

  Fidelity, Bright Horizons, WHOI Honored with 2017 AIM Vision Awards

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is recognized for its unique contributions to the cause of economic opportunity in Massachusetts by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI News | April 3, 2017

  Don Anderson Selected for Prestigious Ketchum Award for Coastal Research

  Senior Scientist Don Anderson will receive WHOI's prestigious 2017 Bostwick H. Ketchum Award, which honors an internationally recognized scientist who demonstrates an innovative approach to coastal research, leadership in the scientific community, and who forges a link between coastal research and societal issues.
• MIT, News | March 31, 2017

  A Journey to the End of the World

  Dr. Stefan Thiele, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, documents his recent research in Antarctica.
• MIT, News | March 31, 2017

  Untangling the Physics of Fishing Gear

  MIT-WHOI Joint Program alum and former WHOI postdoctoral investigator Julie van der Hoop '16 to receive an award for her paper on marine mammal science and the physics of fishing gear.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | March 31, 2017

  Embrace Who You Are: One Latina Scientist’s Brave Journey in STEM

  MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Gabi Serrato Marks profiles her colleague, Gabriela Farfan, about her dream of becoming a mineralogist and her experiences with culture and identity along the way.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | March 30, 2017

  Institute Award for the Love of Marine Chemistry

  MIT-WHOI student Lauren Kipp to receive a Graduate Teaching Award