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Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | September 30, 2017
A Small Ocean Acidification Sensor Could Serve a Large Need
Dr. Aleck Wang, a MIT Sea Grant funded scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution designed the Channelized Optical System (CHANOS) II, the first DIC sensor that can make near-continuous measurements, allowing researchers a picture into how these variables change over spatial scales as small as a centimeter -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | September 22, 2017
Technique Spots Warning Signs of Extreme Events
Method may help predict hotspots of instability affecting climate, aircraft performance, and ocean circulation. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 21, 2017
What Do Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Portend?
MIT prominent meteorologist and climate scientist Kerry Emanuel discusses projections of changing hurricane activity over the rest of this century and what such projections tell us about how the probabilities of hurricanes like Harvey and Irma have already changed and are likely to continue to do so. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | September 21, 2017
Mathematics Predicts a Sixth Mass Extinction
By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 20, 2017
Deep Waters Spiral Upward Around Antarctica
New research reveals upwelling pathways and timescales of deep, overturning waters in the Southern Ocean. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | September 13, 2017
WHOI To Present Public Scientific Symposium In Spanish & Portuguese
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to host its first bilingual (Spanish/Portuguese) ocean science symposium, “Oceanos: WHOI en Español e Português”, arranged by MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student, Gabriela Farfan, and WHOI research assistant Luis Valentin-Alvarado. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 7, 2017
“EarthArt” exhibit at Hayden Library
See your art and data displayed on the illuminated iGlobe -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | September 7, 2017
Back to School 2017
MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences welcomes 28 new graduate students. Sixteen join the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate; fourteen, the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | September 6, 2017
How Do Fish Find Their Way?
Hatched in the ocean, larvae may use sound to settle on reefs. MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography graduate student Justin Suca is investigating whether tiny larval fish use sound to navigate from the open oceans where they hatch to coral reefs where they will settle down and live. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | August 31, 2017
Neighboring Exoplanets May Hold Water, Study Finds
Observations and modeling suggest TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets may have held onto water, billions of years after their formation. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT Sea Grant, News | August 30, 2017
Undergraduate students join MIT Sea Grant for hands on summer research
MIT Sea Grant's teaching lab was bustling this summer with more than 10 undergraduate students, and a handful of exceptional high school students all working on projects that varied from mapping eelgrass using drones to building ocean drifters and modifying ocean engineering teaching tools. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | August 25, 2017
Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli to Give Rachel Carson Lecture at AGU’s Fall 2017 Meeting
The chosen female scientist exemplifies Rachel Carson’s work with cutting-edge ocean science, especially science relevant to societal concerns. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | August 24, 2017
Saving Venice, MIT-style
MISTI interns and MIT faculty tackle rising sea level challenges at Italian research camp this summer. -
MIT News | August 23, 2017
For the Love of Ice: Journeys to the Remote and Inhospitable
Alison Criscitiello PhD '14 seeks ice cores in inhospitable locations, sometimes camping on ice sheets and sleeping with a shotgun in case of bear attacks. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | August 22, 2017
Ancient Earth’s Hot Interior Created “Graveyard” of Continental Slabs
Higher mantle temperatures caused subducting tectonic plates to sink much further than they do today. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News | August 14, 2017
MIT-WHOI Joint Program Graduate Students Launch a Blog
Posts will comment on future of ocean science and engineering, experiences in the field and more. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | August 14, 2017
New Study Details Ocean’s Role in Fourth-Largest Mass Extinction
Global oceanic dead zones persisted for 50,000 years after end-Triassic extinction event -
MIT News, News | August 9, 2017
Six from MIT awarded 2017 Fulbright grants
Grantees will spend the 2017-2018 academic year conducting research abroad. Jorlyn Le Garrec '17, who graduated this spring with a BS in mechanical and ocean engineering, will pursue a research-based mechanical engineering master’s degree through the University of Auckland. Le Garrec’s research focuses on underwater robotics. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT - The Darwin Project, MIT EAPS, News | August 4, 2017
Phytoplankton & Chips
Microbes mediate the global marine cycles of elements, modulating atmospheric CO2 and helping to maintain the oxygen we all breath yet there is much about them scientists still don’t understand. Now, an award from the Simons Foundation will give researchers from the Darwin Project access to bigger, better computing resources to model these communities and probe how they work. -
MIT, MIT Sea Grant, News | August 3, 2017
Students build and test marine ROV’s as part of the E2@MIT Program
MIT Sea Grant hosted 12 exceptional high school students, interested in underwater robotics, this past week as part of MIT’s E2@MIT science and engineering residential camp. Dr. Tom Consi, MIT Sea Grant’s research education specialist, instructed the students in making an underwater remotely operated vehicle or, ROV, commonly known as lSeaPerch.
