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MIT Sea Grant, News | January 29, 2017
MIT Sea Grant says good bye to renowned scientist Ernst Ray Pariser
Ernst Ray Pariser passed away peacefully on January 20th, 2017. -
MIT, News, WHOI | January 27, 2017
Tiny Creatures Form Massive, Bright Ring Around Antarctica
Dense algae populations in the Great Calcite Belt could cause carbon dioxide release from the ocean into the atmosphere. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 26, 2017
Ono is 2017 EAG Medallist
Prof Shuhei Ono receives the 2017 Paul Gast Lectureship of the European Association of Geochemistry. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 26, 2017
Celebrating Pauline Morrow Austin: A Founder of Radar Meteorology
MIT Faculty, friends and family of Mrs. Austin gathered to remember her life and commemorate her contributions to science with the unveiling of an exhibit in EAPS. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | January 23, 2017
New D-Lab course: Water and Climate Change
Offered for the Spring 2017 term, this class explores climate change through the lens of water – sea level rise, floods, drought, water quality, water scarcity. -
MIT, MITgcm News, News | January 20, 2017
2016 Research Roundup
Happy 2017: Another new year, another research roundup! Best wishes to MITgcmers past, MITgcmers present and MITgcmers yet to come... -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | January 17, 2017
Observing and Modeling the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice: A Meeting in Woods Hole
Last November, a group of MIT researchers joined scientists from around the world to attend the fifth meeting of the Forum for Arctic Modeling & Synthesis (FAMOS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 17, 2017
Mother-of-Pearl Holds the Key to Historical Ocean Temperatures
Studying this iridescent material in mollusk shells may give scientists a more accurate way to track historical ocean temps. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | January 16, 2017
MIT Sea Grant Annual Request for Proposals
We seek proposals that focus on the impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms, particularly New England species of concern such as lobsters, scallops, mussels, etc. In addition we are interested in proposals in the area of wireless power transmission. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | January 10, 2017
Short-lived greenhouse gases cause centuries of sea-level rise
Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | January 8, 2017
Dr. Jarrett Brynes: Using social media to further research
Sea Grant funded scientist, associate professor of biology at UMass Boston Jarrett Byrnes, uses social media and untraditional methods to promote science. -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News, WHOI | January 8, 2017
Dr. Don Anderson: Using robots to measure toxins in the ocean
Funded by MIT Sea Grant, Dr. Don Anderson’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and others has developed a robotic system that can monitor blooms of toxic algae and their toxins in real time. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | January 8, 2017
Dr. Robyn Hannigan: Using Lobster Shells to Understand the Past
Hannigan, founding Dean of UMass Boston’s School for the Environment, received funding from MIT Sea Grant to look at how ocean acidification is impacting lobsters’ ability to form their shells. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | January 2, 2017
Students, academics, and entrepreneurs join forces to tackle the future of water utilities
Fifth annual MIT Water Summit brings together interdisciplinary panelists to give multiple perspectives on major issues surrounding the water sector. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 20, 2016
Samuel A. Bowring Receives 2016 Walter H. Bucher Medal
Samuel A. Bowring was awarded the 2016 Walter H. Bucher Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 14 December 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "original contributions to the basic knowledge of crust and lithosphere." -
MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | December 20, 2016
From the Historical Exploitation of Resources to a Modern Academic Understanding: Massachusetts and the Arctic
Driven by a need for understanding, Massachusetts scientists have played a key role in directing America's relationship with the Arctic since the whaling years. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | December 19, 2016
New study sets oxygen-breathing limit for ocean’s hardiest organisms
Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen. -
MIT, MIT Sea Grant, News | December 17, 2016
Charting project reveals Charles River’s depths
The Boston Globe highlights MIT Sea Grant's efforts to create the most thorough, accurate chart of the lower Charles yet. -
MIT, News, WHOI - Oceanus | December 14, 2016
New Device Reveals What Ocean Microbes Do
Instrument may also help monitor sewage treatment plants -
MIT, News | December 12, 2016
A Meeting That Helped Foster the Acceptance of Global Tectonics
Fifty years ago, in the United States added their heft to a theory with profound implications: Earth's ocean crust recycles itself on a global scale, and continents move across the face of the planet.
