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MIT Sea Grant | March 24, 2013
Adapting to Change in Marine Ecosystems – A Stakeholder Science Forum
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Time: 10:00 - 12:20 pm Room: E38-300 (292 Main St., Cambridge) Open to the public. RSVP appreciated, to Gayle Sherman, gsherman@mit.edu Each speaker presents their scientific findings, then answers questions from the ... -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT Oceanography, WHOI | March 24, 2013
More to Melting Glaciers than Meets the Eye
Related topics | Biogeochemical Cycles | Microbial Ecology -
MIT, MIT EAPS | March 21, 2013
A Fiery Conclusion
Some 200 million years ago, an increase in atmospheric CO₂ caused acidification of the oceans and global warming that killed off 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species on Earth. -
MIT Sea Grant | March 20, 2013
Seminar: Friendship-Framework software for simulation-driven design
Friday, March 22 10:30-12:30 pm, 5-134 For more information and registration, please contact Maria Riefstahl, 5-228, maria@mit.edu. MIT Sea Grant Assistant Director for Research, Stefano Brizzolara, together with the Center for Ocean Engineering at MI... -
Featured Stories, MIT | March 18, 2013
Demystifying the Cretaceous Hothouse
Related topics | Greenhouse Worlds | Oceans and Climate -
MIT Sea Grant | March 3, 2013
MIT Sea Grant hosts the 16th annual Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT
CAMBRIDGE, MA - March 4, 2013 - MIT Sea Grant College Program organized and hosted the 16th annual Blue Lobster Bowl (BLB) at MIT on March 3, 2013. The tournament this year, re-scheduled due to the historic blizzard Nemo, included 126 participants from... -
MITgcm News | March 1, 2013
Mixing it up in the Southern Ocean
This month we spotlight work by Ryan Abernathey who has been using MITgcm to map surface mixing rates globally. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | February 26, 2013
The Secret Lives of Researchers: Head in the Clouds
Graduate student Sarvesh Garimella on why those lights stay on through the night in the Green Building. -
Featured Stories, MIT | February 25, 2013
Highlights of the Southern Ocean Workshop at MIT
Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Oceans and Climate -
MIT, MIT EAPS | February 19, 2013
New Prof. News
It's official. EAPS is delighted to announce that Mick Follows, recent recipient of a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation marine microbial ecology award, is now an associate professor with tenure. -
MIT News | February 19, 2013
That’s the way the droplets adhere
Understanding exactly how droplets and bubbles stick to surfaces — everything from dew on blades of grass to the water droplets that form on condensing coils after steam drives a turbine in a power plant — is a “100-year-old problem” that ha... -
MIT Sea Grant | February 18, 2013
Kids test-drive MIT Sea Grant ROV’s during Family Science Days event in Boston
Engineering Educator Kathryn Shroyer and Research Engineer Mike Soroka set up "Sea Perch Shop" for the 2-day free Family Science Days organized as part of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held at Hyne... -
Featured Stories, MIT - The Darwin Project, MIT EAPS | February 18, 2013
Mick Follows: Bringing Life to Computer Models of Marine Microbes
Related topics | Microbial Ecology | Biogeochemical Cycles -
MIT Sea Grant | February 11, 2013
Guest speaker, Dale Kerper, presents “Numerical Models of Coastal Flooding and Erosion: Predicting the effects of Climate Change”
Dale Kerpe, Danish Hydraulic Institute (DHI) Senior Engineer, will visit MIT Sea Grant Tuesday for a special presentation on DHI as one of the world’s leading research institutes for hydraulic engineering. Kerper will discuss some of the ongoing rese... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | February 7, 2013
Forging a New Direction in Climate Research
In this Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, Professor Kerry Emanuel '76, PhD '78, discusses a new approach to climate science that emphasizes basic understanding over black box simulation. -
MIT News | February 5, 2013
Purification on the cheap
Increased natural gas production is seen as a crucial step away from the greenhouse gas emissions of coal plants and toward U.S. energy independence. But natural gas wells have problems: Large volumes of deep water, often heavily laden with salts and m... -
MIT News | February 4, 2013
Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Barack Obama on Friday presented MIT professors Sallie (Penny) Chisholm and Robert Langer with the nation’s highest honors for scientific discovery and invention. They were among 22 eminent scientists nationwide honored during a White House... -
Featured Stories, MIT | February 4, 2013
The Real Reasons to Build an Oil-Sensing Robot
Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Robotics -
MITgcm News | February 1, 2013
2012 Research Roundup
A sample of 2012 research articles that involved MITgcm in some way. Take a look... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 29, 2013
Cumulus, cirrus, stratus: what clouds say about climate change
In this recent Faculty Forum broadcast event, Dan Cziczo set out to answer what happens when particles in the atmosphere, especially manufactured ones, interact with water vapor and temperature to form clouds in a changing climate.
