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• 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
• MITgcm News | March 28, 2017

  Melting Antarctica

  This month we spotlight work by Alberto C. Naveira Garabato. Garabato and his team have been running idealized modelling experiments using MITgcm to study the immediate behavior of meltwater as it ascends from an ice shelf cavity.
• MIT - The Darwin Project, News | March 28, 2017

  New Postdoc Aboozar Tabatabai

  Tabatabai joins MIT's Darwin Project to help predict how marine biogeochemistry responds to global change.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 27, 2017

  Tiny Bacterium Provides Window into Whole Ecosystems

  Ubiquitous marine organism has co-evolved with other microbes, promoting more complex ecosystems.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 24, 2017

  Storied Women of MIT: Pauline Morrow Austin

  Storied Women of MIT is a series of 60-second historical profiles of MIT students, researchers, and staff that demonstrates the role of women at the Institute from its founding to today.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 24, 2017

  Global Trekker

  “This work has allowed me to see most of the world.” Geologist Oliver Jagoutz scales mountains to gain tectonic insights.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | March 23, 2017

  Corals Die as Global Warming Collides with Local Weather in the South China Sea

  New research highlights the devastation caused when global-scale ocean warming interacts with short-lived weather anomalies, and adds urgency to the question of how reefs will fare through the end of this century.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 21, 2017

  Understanding Ocean Changes

  The story of a unique partnership between commercial fishermen and scientists.
• News, WHOI - Oceanus | March 21, 2017

  Scientist-Fisherman Partnership

  Collaboration spurs mutual benefits for research and industry
• MIT, News, WHOI | March 20, 2017

  World’s Lakes May be Much Shallower than Previously Thought

  New mathematical analysis from MIT provides more accurate estimate of the depth and volume of the Earth's lakes, Adrian Cho of Science Magazine reports.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 20, 2017

  Worm-Inspired Material Strengthens, Changes Shape in Response to its Environment

  A bio-inspired gel material developed at MIT could help engineers control movements of soft robots.
• MIT, News | March 20, 2017

  Standing Out in Earth and Planetary Sciences

  MIT students and postdocs receive recognition for their outstanding presentations and posters at the 49th Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | March 19, 2017

  Biologists working to prevent spread of invasive crab into Gulf of Maine

  The invasive mitten crab -- known for its devastating impacts on west coast marshes and commercial fisheries -- has not yet made its way into N.H. waters, and New England biologists are working to keep it that way.