MIT Stories

• MIT - The Darwin Project | February 5, 2016

  Darwin Goes to Ocean Sciences 2016

  Look out for the Darwin team sharing their work at this year's Ocean Sciences conference, February 21-26 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Featured Stories, MIT News | February 1, 2016

  Living a “Mixotrophic” Lifestyle

  MIT News reports on a new study that suggests plankton may have a larger impact on ocean carbon storage than previously thought. Read it here.
• MITgcm News | January 15, 2016

  2015 Research Roundup

  Another new year, another research roundup! Best wishes to MITgcmers past, MITgcmers present and MITgcmers yet to come...
• MIT Sea Grant | January 14, 2016

  Planning for Climate Change Impacts on Shellfish in Wellfleet Harbor

  MIT Sea Grant's web developer, Ben Bray, and Social and Environmental Research Institute Research Fellow, Seth Tuler, P.h.D, created a website to showcase the potential impacts of climate change on shellfish and shellfishing in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The website provides an overview of the climate-related threats to shellfish and commercial shellfishing in Wellfleet Harbor and potential strategies that can be considered by the Town of Wellfleet to prevent and mitigate their impacts.
• MITgcm News | November 30, 2015

  Jurassic Currents

  This month we look at new work by a team of Swiss researchers who have been using MITgcm to explore the ocean circulation associated with the global land distribution during the Jurassic.
• MIT Sea Grant | November 29, 2015

  MIT Professor Caroline Uhler is awarded the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

  The 2015 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization was presented to Professor Caroline Uhler in an award ceremony on November 20, 2015.
• MIT Sea Grant | November 23, 2015

  Nominations are open for the 2016 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

  Nominations are open for the 2016 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are eligible.
• MIT Sea Grant | November 19, 2015

  Now accepting applications for the 2018 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

  Applications Due by February 10th, 2017 to MIT Sea Grant. The 2018 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship competition is now open. The Federal Funding Opportunity announcement is attached and instructions on the National Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship Page. Prospective students must submit the application to the Sea Grant Director in his/her state by is Friday, February 10, 2017. The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources. Successful applicants will spend one year (February 1, 2018 - January 31, 2019) in a legislative or executive host office in the Washington, DC area. An eligible applicant is any student, regardless of citizenship, who, on February 10, 2017, is enrolled towards a degree in a graduate or professional program (in an accredited U.S. institution) that is relevant to ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in national policy relating to these. Important Information · Students should submit applications to a Sea Grant Program and not submit information directly into Grants.Gov · Student applications are due to Sea Grant Programs by February 10, 2017. · Additional Fellowship and application information can be found on the Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship website. Massachusetts students may apply through either the MIT or Woods Hole Sea Grant Programs. For submission through MIT Sea Grant, please direct inquiries to Kathy de Zengotita, kdez@mit.edu, 617-253-7042.
• MIT Sea Grant | November 17, 2015

  MIT Sea Grant introduces fishermen from Ghana to the New Bedford fishing community

  MIT Sea Grant anthropologist, who has been working with fishing communities for over 25 years, helped coordinate a waterfront tour of New Bedford to introduce the Ghanaian fishermen to a broad range of fishermen perspectives.
• Featured Stories, MIT News | October 28, 2015

  A Fair and Ambitious Pledge? Not quite.

  MIT News reports on a study from Susan Solomon and colleagues that found pledges by top greenhouse gas emitters leaves little room for others; urges greater R&D. Read it here! Related topics |Human Influences | A Warming World
• MITgcm News | October 27, 2015

  An Eddy – Internal Solitary Wave Tango

  This month we spotlight work by a team from the Chinese Academy of Science's South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China, who have been using MITgcm to investigate the interaction of internal solitary waves with mesoscale eddies.
• MIT News | October 16, 2015

  To capture a wave

  Themistoklis Sapsis seeks to understand, predict, and optimize complex engineering and environmental systems under extreme uncertainty.
• MIT Sea Grant | October 15, 2015

  Artificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability

  Study finds a whisker’s “slaloming” motion helps seals track and chase prey.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | October 5, 2015

  Microbe Sleuth

  Tanja Bosak examines how life and the Earth evolved in tandem during their early history together.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | September 29, 2015

  Wet World

  Taylor Perron talks to the Boston Globe about the new findings from NASA indicating that Mars may not be the arid planet it was once thought to be.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | September 21, 2015

  The Riddle of Rip Tides

  MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Melissa Moulton is investigating why, where, and how these dire beach hazards form.
• MITgcm News | September 18, 2015

  The Trouble With Sea-Ice

  This month we spotlight work by a team from McGill University who have been using MITgcm to model oil spill scenarios around the Arctic Ocean Basin to better understand spill behavior in the presence of sea-ice.
• MIT News | August 31, 2015

  “Grey swan” cyclones predicted to be more frequent and intense

  Study finds some coastal regions may face a risk of unprecedented storm surge in the next century.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | August 30, 2015

  Lessons of Katrina

  What have we learned about hurricanes and climate change since Katrina? Kerry Emanuel talks to Spectrum Magazine. 
• MIT, MIT EAPS | August 27, 2015

  Dust in the Waters

  Intensity of desert storms may affect ocean phytoplankton: MIT study finds phytoplankton are extremely sensitive to changing levels of desert dust.