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• MIT Sea Grant | March 20, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant is making sure fishing communities are heard

  MIT Sea Grant is celebrating Sea Grant's 50th Anniversary with a look back at the work of our anthropologist Madeleine Hall-Arber. While at Sea Grant, she's focused on fishing communities in New England, studying the social impact of new regulations and working to make fisherman safer.
• MIT News | March 18, 2016

  DNA markers tell the story of deep sea adaptation

  Santiago Herrera studies the genome to establish new connections between species living in the deep sea.
• WHOI - Oceanus | March 18, 2016

  Journey Into the Ocean’s Microbiomes

  A scientist examines a tango between marine animals and bacteria
• MIT Sea Grant | March 17, 2016

  New Digital Coast Fellowship Opportunity

  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management is recruiting candidates for three Digital Coast Fellowship opportunities in 2016. This program is modeled after the Coastal Management fellowship program and has a similar mission: to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to Digital Coast Partnership organizations.
• WHOI News | March 10, 2016

  Major Source of Methanol in the Ocean Identified

  While scientists have long known methanol exists in the ocean, and that certain microbes love to snack on it, they’ve been stymied by one key question: where does it come from?
• MIT Sea Grant | March 9, 2016

  CRAB-MIT Sea Grant Chart of the Charles River

  Sediment deposition has been a long standing problem in the Charles River, where major tributaries empty into it. Now, MIT Sea Grant is using low cost, commercially available, fish finding equipment mounted on both autonomous surface vehicles and volunteer driven boats to chart parts of the Charles River that haven't been mapped for decades.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 8, 2016

  2016 Blue Lobster Bowl

  MIT Sea Grant College Program, Woods Hole Sea Grant and The National Ocean Science Bowl sponsored the 19th Annual Blue Lobster Bowl on March 5th, 2016. Twenty teams of students from 12 Massachusetts high schools put their physical oceanography, ocean policy, and marine biology knowledge to the test, competing to become regional champion and represent Massachusetts at the 19th Annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl Finals.
• MIT - The Darwin Project | March 8, 2016

  Source waters for the highly productive Patagonian shelf in the southwestern Atlantic

  MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) researchers Song, H., J. Marshall, M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, and G. Forget author "Source waters for the highly productive Patagonian shelf in the southwestern Atlantic" published in the Journal of Marine Systems, early online edition.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 7, 2016

  Sea Grant celebrates its 50th anniversary

  On March 8, Sea Grant will celebrate its 50th anniversary of promoting conservation and sustainable development of our marine resources through research, education and outreach.
• Featured Stories | March 7, 2016

  Research Takes Center Stage at MIT Climate Symposium

  At MIT on Climate=Science + Action, speakers examined what we know, what’s left to learn, and the diverse climate-related research happening throughout the institute—from exoplanets to the deep ocean and everything in between.
• WHOI News | March 7, 2016

  Fukushima Site Still Leaking After Five Years, Research Shows

  Five years after the Fukushima accident, scientific data about the levels of radioactivity in the ocean off our shores are available publicly thanks to ongoing efforts of independent researchers, including WHOI radiochemist Ken Buesseler.
• WHOI - Oceanus | March 4, 2016

  Minerals Made by Microbes

  Some geology naturally requires biology
• MIT News | March 2, 2016

  Whales dine with their own kind

  Mapping whale calls, researchers find the predators feed in species-specific hotspots.
• MIT News | March 1, 2016

  New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detection

  Surface waves can trigger powerful sound waves that race through the deep ocean, study suggests.
• Featured Stories, WHOI | February 26, 2016

  Life in the Hot Seat

  This is the final article of a three-part series covering the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences lectures on “Life in the Ocean.”
• MIT News | February 25, 2016

  Rogue wave ahead

  New prediction tool gives 2-3 minute warning of incoming rogue waves.
• WHOI - Oceanus | February 23, 2016

  Through the Looking-Glass of the Sea Surface

  Measuring the ins and outs of the critical border between air and ocean
• MIT Sea Grant | February 21, 2016

  Green Eelgrass, Blue Carbon

  MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to conduct a study to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts.
• MIT - The Darwin Project | February 19, 2016

  Keeping Things the Same

  In a paper published online in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, the Follows group reports on new ways to understand what ecosystem factors could cause the elemental composition of organic matter to remain stable even when phytoplankton vary.
• WHOI - Oceanus | February 18, 2016

  A Mighty Mysterious Molecule

  Chemical compounds are the currency in ocean ecosystems