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• WHOI - Oceanus | December 3, 2015

  Epiphany Among the Manta Rays

  Can we mobilize an army of scuba divers as citizen scientists?
• WHOI News | December 3, 2015

  Higher Levels of Fukushima Cesium Detected Offshore

  Scientists monitoring the spread of radiation in the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear accident report finding an increased number of contaminated sites off the US West Coast, along with the highest detection level to date.
• 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.
• Featured Stories | November 30, 2015

  PAOC Puts the Science in Science Policy

  Earlier this year, graduate students and faculty from MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate traveled to our nation’s capital on a mission to build relationships with policymakers on both sides of the aisle. Related topics | Education | Outreach
• 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.
• Featured Stories | November 23, 2015

  Storify: Confronting Water Challenges in a Changing Climate

  The 2015 MIT Water Summit brought together leaders from industry, government, and academia to discuss current problems and potential solutions surrounding Earth's water resources.
• WHOI - Oceanus | November 23, 2015

  Earth’s Riverine Bloodstream

  Flowing down rivers are clues to how our whole planet works
• 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.
• WHOI News | November 18, 2015

  Warming Ocean Worsened Australia’s Fatal 2010/2011 Floods

  A study by a team of U.S. and Australian researchers shows that long-term warming of the Indian and Pacific oceans played an important role in increasing the severity of the devastating floods that struck Australia in 2010/2011.
• 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 | November 16, 2015

  Capturing an Underwater World

  Underwater photographer and MIT CAST visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen is developing new technology and sharing his passion for underwater conservation photography with students in an upcoming IAP course. Related topics |Human Influences | Oceans and Life
• WHOI - Oceanus | November 10, 2015

  Ice, Wind and Fury

  Scientists investigate the avalanche of winds known as piteraqs
• Featured Stories | November 5, 2015

  Bringing Scientists into the FOLD: 4 Questions with Alexis Hope

  A new publishing platform out of MIT Media Lab adds context and depth to online science communication.
• WHOI - Oceanus | October 29, 2015

  Forecasting the Future of Fish

  Through comics, MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Emily Moberg explains how her research modeling fish populations help improve our understanding of relationships between humans, the ocean, and its resources.
• 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.
• Featured Stories | October 26, 2015

  Cloud Watching

  Bjorn Stevens, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, describes how atmospheric water contributes to climate change at the 2015 John Carlson Lecture.
• WHOI News | October 22, 2015

  New Study Provides First Field Observations of Rare Omura’s Whales

  An international team of biologists has made the first-ever field observations of one of the least known species of whales in the world Omura's whales off the coast of Madagascar.
• Featured Stories | October 21, 2015

  Empowering Women in Marine Science

  The 2nd annual workshop of the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) took place at MIT on October 10, 2015. Related topics | Outreach