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Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | August 2, 2017
Margaret Tivey to Become New Vice President and Dean of Academic Programs at WHOI
Dr. Margaret K. (Meg) Tivey has been selected as the next Vice President and Dean for Academic Programs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Tivey will oversee all academic programs at WHOI, which include the MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering for graduate students, postdoctoral and undergraduate programs, the graduate-level Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, and will serve as the WHOI point of contact for the Marine Biological Laboratory-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library. -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | July 31, 2017
From Computation to the Ocean, a Scientist Finds His Fit
Science Magazine profiles MIT-WHOI Joint Program faculty member Mark Baumgartner. -
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. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | July 31, 2017
Mapping Eelgrass with Drones: 2016 NOAA Hollings Scholar Scott Nesbit
Nesbit along with MIT Sea Grant coastal ecologist Dr. Juliet Simpson use drones to map the locations of eelgrass beds throughout the coast of New England. -
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, 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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | June 8, 2017
Congratulations to the EAPS Class of 2017 Marine Scientists
Degrees awarded during the 2016/2017 academic year are conferred in September, February and June. -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | May 30, 2017
VIDEO: Blue carbon and coastal adaptation
Aquatic Ecologist Julie Simpson discusses her pioneering work with MIT’s Sea Grant College Program. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | May 30, 2017
Last year’s drought had an upside: cleaner beaches in Boston
Last year's drought contributed to the uptick in ocean cleanliness off Boston-area beaches due to the lack of rain last summer, which meant that there was less stormwater and sewage runoff flushing bacteria and contaminants into the ocean. (Boston Globe) -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | May 30, 2017
An Ocean of Curiosity
MIT oceanographers explore Earth’s seas with the Boston community for the 2017 Cambridge Science Festival at the MIT Museum. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | May 26, 2017
Conch Shells Spill the Secret to Their Toughness
Three-tiered structure of these impact-resistant shells could inspire better helmets, body armor.
