Featured Stories

• Featured Stories | June 13, 2014

  The cold hard truth about Arctic policy: Interview with Lawrence Susskind

  Oceans at MIT talks to environmental policy expert Lawrence Susskind about the unprecedented need for new Arctic agreements and how to achieve them. Related topics | Ocean Policy
• Featured Stories | June 5, 2014

  A Drop in the Southern Ocean

  A brand new short film from Fereday Films follows a group of researchers on a DIMES oceanographic research cruise as they intrepidly travel to the unpredictable and remote seas around the Antarctic continent to collect oceanographic data. Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Oceans and Climate
• Featured Stories | June 2, 2014

  Solving the puzzle of ice age climates

  Researchers look to the Southern Ocean for an explanation of the “Last Glacial Maximum.” Related topics | Oceans and Climate
• Featured Stories | May 21, 2014

  A Visit from the “Dragon” of Rapid Ice Sheet Collapse

  Polar ice expert Richard Alley delivered the 14th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture "Ice Sheets and Sea Level: Is the Long Tail Attached to a Dragon?," delving into the process of ice sheet melting and the risks and uncertainties of climate change and sea level rise. Related topics |Human Influences | Hazards and Disasters
• Featured Stories | May 8, 2014

  MIT announces new initiative on environment

  Multidisciplinary program, to be led by Susan Solomon, will encourage collaborations among researchers in different fields.
• Featured Stories | May 5, 2014

  Spring is the Season of Outreach!

  For Oceans at MIT, spring is the season for science outreach. This year, our team included a group of graduate students, post docs, faculty, and the science writer from MIT’s Program in Oceans, Atmospheres, and Climate (PAOC) within the Department of Earth Atmospheric Science.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | April 24, 2014

  Ocean Microbes Display Remarkable Genetic Diversity

  One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations.
• Featured Stories | April 23, 2014

  Combatting the Climate Crisis James Hansen’s Way

  James Hansen visited MIT and advocated for a fee on carbon, a switch to nuclear energy, and the formation of a centrist third political party to solve the climate crisis. Related topics |Human Influences | Hazards and Disasters
• Featured Stories | March 27, 2014

  Oceans@MIT highlights from MIT Water Night 2014

  Oceans at MIT attended MIT Water Night 2014 to report on some of the (salty water!) highlights, including nano-technological desalination of seawater, innovative wetland conservation, and ocean carbon cycle research.
• Featured Stories | March 20, 2014

  How the Ocean Reins in Global Warming

  Related topics | Oceans and Climate | A Warming World
• Featured Stories | March 12, 2014

  PBS NewsHour Spotlights Penny Chisholm’s Phytoplankton Work

  Related topics | Microbial Ecology | Biogeochemical Cycles
• Featured Stories | March 6, 2014

  MIT Sea Grant hosts 2014 Blue Lobster Bowl competition

  On Saturday, March 1, 120 students from 15 Massachusetts high schools competed in the 17th Blue Lobster Bowl (BLB), an annual ocean science knowledge competition sponsored by the MIT Sea Grant College Program.
• Featured Stories | February 27, 2014

  A Gold Medal in Oceanography

  John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, recently accepted the 2014 Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his fundamental insights into water mass transformation and deep convection. Related topics | Oceans and Climate| Present and Future Oceans
• Featured Stories | February 22, 2014

  At the Lorenz Center, Water Unites Leaders in Climate Sciences

  Thirty-seven leading climate researchers, along with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, participated in the Lorenz Center’s first scientific workshop, “Water in the Climate System." Related topics | Oceans and Climate| A Warming World
• Featured Stories | February 13, 2014

  A Brave New Ocean World

  Related topics | Oceans and Climate | Ecosystems
• Featured Stories | February 7, 2014

  Stocker Lab’s Stunning Coral Wins A Prize

  Related topics | Microbial Ecology | Ecosystems
• Featured Stories | January 24, 2014

  Deeper Submergence: WHOI Launches the Center for Marine Robotics

  Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• Featured Stories | January 10, 2014

  The Shipping News

  Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• Featured Stories | January 1, 2014

  The Best of Oceans at MIT 2013

  Related topics | Oceans and Climate |Life in the Oceans
• Featured Stories | December 9, 2013

  Lights, Camera, Action: Revealing the Ocean’s Invisible Beauty

  Related topics | Outreach | Life in the Oceans