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MIT Sea Grant, News | July 31, 2017
MIT Sea Grant’s Hollings Scholars present their research at NOAA headquarters
MIT Sea Grant’s three NOAA Hollings Scholars will present their research at NOAA’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland this week. -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | July 31, 2017
Automating Counting Fish: 2016 NOAA Hollings Scholars Caleb Perez and Tzofi Klinghoffer
2016 Hollings Scholars Caleb Perez and Tzofi Klinghoffer are working this summer with researches at MIT Sea Grant, focusing on developing technological solutions that will improve upon current methods used for monitoring fish populations. -
News, WHOI News | July 31, 2017
WHOI Announces 2017 Ocean Science Journalism Fellows
Eight writers, radio, and multimedia science journalists from the U.S., Canada, England, and India have been selected to participate in the competitive Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | July 26, 2017
New Robot Speeds Sampling of Ocean’s Biogeochemistry and Health
The world's first underwater vehicle designed specifically to collect both biological and chemical samples from the ocean water column successfully completed sea trials off the coast of New England on July 9, 2017. The new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), named Clio, will help scientists better understand the inner workings of the ocean. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | July 25, 2017
The Sticky Intertropical Convergence Zone
Ocean circulation coupled to changes in trade winds efficiently damps ITCZ movement to transport heat across the equator. -
News, WHOI News | July 25, 2017
WHOI Researchers to Participate in Science and Film Panels at the Woods Hole Film Festival
This summer, the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is teaming up with the Woods Hole Film Festival (WHFF) for Q&A panel discussions that highlight scientific advances and expand creative storytelling about scientific subjects. -
News, WHOI News | July 25, 2017
Exhibit at WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center Features Photographs by Daniel Casado
Environmental photographer Daniel Casado's exhibit, "Infamia", displays haunting images of life and death in Chiloe, an island off the coast of Chile—from majestic blue whales to the devastating impacts on one of the world’s most vital ecosystems after thousands of tons of rotten salmon were discharged a few miles off shore. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | July 20, 2017
Re-envisioning Underwater Imaging
The Advanced Imaging and Visualization Laboratory (AIVL) at WHOI working with Marine Imaging Technologies has developed a revolutionary new multi-function, underwater imaging system capable of generating ultra-high definition television (UHDTV) video, 2-D mosaic imaging, and 3-D optical models of seafloor objects and environments. The new state-of-the-art technology is currently being field-tested on several submerged shipwreck sites in both the U.S. and Europe. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | July 11, 2017
Sea Grant announces the 2018 Knauss Fellowship finalists
Sea Grant is pleased to announce the 2018 finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship program. As with each class of Knauss fellows, the 2018 finalists are an impressive group with diverse backgrounds and interests. Twenty four of the 33 Sea Grant programs are represented in this year’s class, which includes 61 finalists -
Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | July 6, 2017
Rising temperatures are curbing ocean’s capacity to store carbon
Study finds large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to yearly U.K. emissions, remain in surface waters. -
News, WHOI News | June 30, 2017
Six Right Whales Die In Canadian Waters In Less Than Three Weeks
Unprecedented Mortality Event For One Of The World's Most Endangered Whale Species -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | June 27, 2017
Microbe Generates Extraordinarily Diverse Array of Peptides
In marine bacteria, evolution of new specialized molecules follows a previously unknown path. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | June 27, 2017
Pauline Morrow Austin: Radar & Weather Maven
Pauline Morrow Austin (PhD '42) joined MIT's Weather Radar Research Project at its inception in 1946 and went on to direct the project from 1956-1979. Her pioneering work to interpret weather radar echoes laid the foundation for modern radar meteorology. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | June 20, 2017
MIT Sea Grant Ocean Acidification Seminar Tuesday June 27th at 12:00
Please join us Tuesday June 27 at MIT Sea Grant for presentations by six MIT Sea Grant funded researchers on their ocean acidification projects. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI - Oceanus | June 20, 2017
Pop Goes the Seafloor Rock
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Meghan Jones studies seafloor lavas to reveal the inner workings of our planet. Using the human-occupied submersible Alvin and the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry, WHOI researchers and Jones have been exploring a surprising discovery: gas-filled volcanic rocks on the seafloor that "pop" when brought up to the surface. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News | June 19, 2017
Cantine and Moore Awarded for Excellence
Institute Recognizes Marjorie Cantine and Kelsey Moore as 2017 Graduate Women of Excellence. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | June 19, 2017
Girls Just Wanna Be Engineers
As part of a research grant from the National Science Foundation, Anna Michael, Applied Physics and Ocean Engineering Department at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), created the GOES (Girls in Ocean Engineering and Science) Institute. The program, which began in 2016, brings in 12 girls who are about to enter the sixth grade and a science teacher for a week of activities. -
Featured Stories, MIT News, News | June 15, 2017
Batteries that “Drink” Seawater Could Power Long-range Underwater Vehicles
Startup’s novel aluminum batteries increase the range of UUVs tenfold. -
News, WHOI - Oceanus | June 12, 2017
The Hot Spot Below Yellowstone Park
Researchers use deep-sea technology to explore volcanic lake -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | June 9, 2017
MIT-NASA Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge
New MIT-NASA research using models of Atlantic circulation finds that the ocean absorbs atmospheric gases more easily than heat energy, and the slowing circulation that results, reduces its ability to absorb both.
