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• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 15, 2018

  Dr. Andrew Babbin is awarded the 2019 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

  Dr. Andrew Babbin, an Assistant Professor in MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, was awarded the 2019 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. Endowed by the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, the two-year chair opens the way for promising, non-tenured professors to undertake marine-related research that will further innovative uses of the ocean's resources.
• MIT News, News | February 14, 2018

  A microbial approach to agriculture

  A new special subject, Agricultural Microbial Ecology, takes students to Israel.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | February 14, 2018

  Monitoring Bacteria on Whale Skin

  Humpback microbiome linked to seasonal, environmental changes + VIDEO
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 12, 2018

  MIT on Chaos and Climate: A Celebration of Two Pioneers of Modern Meteorology

  MIT atmospheric scientists and trailblazers Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz gave us numerical weather prediction and chaos theory, highlighting the value of basic research.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 8, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen wins Hollings Ocean Awareness Award

  Keith Ellenbogen, a visiting artist at MIT Sea Grant was recently awarded an Ernest F. Hollings Ocean Awareness Award from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for his artistic and innovative project entitled: Space to Sea — A Photographic Journey into Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary. Keith, an assistant professor of photography at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, will work closely with Alison Nolan, Principal, Boston Harbor Cruises, to showcase the never before photographed dynamic underwater world of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to spark environmental awareness.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 8, 2018

  To Track an Oil Spill

  Robotic "bloodhound" to sniff for oil in ice-covered oceans
• News, WHOI News | February 5, 2018

  WHOI Spins Off Local Technology Start-up

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) sold its controlling interest in EOM Offshore, a mooring systems company based on technology developed by engineers at WHOI. The company was founded as a start-up in 2010 to commercialize highly stretchable, fatigue-resistant hoses to transmit power and data to and from undersea sensors.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | February 4, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant’s FY2019 call for pre-proposals is open

  Pre-proposals are due by Tuesday March 6, 2018 by 5:00PM. Full Proposals are due by Tuesday June 12, 2018 by 5:00PM.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 1, 2018

  Tracking Unexploded Munitions

  Long-buried ordnance lingers on U.S. coasts
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | January 31, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant announces four newly funded projects

  MIT Sea Grant has selected four research projects for funding from our annual request for proposals including: Making Sense of the Variability of Coastal Ocean Acidification, Measuring Acid/Base Chemistry in the Extrapallial Fluids of New England's Commercially Important Mollusks, Quantifying Coastal Ocean Acidification Impacts on Estuarine Nitrogen Removal, Magnetic Induction (MI) Wireless Underwater Data Communications: Bottom-to-Surface Ocean Temperature Monitoring
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 29, 2018

  MIT on Chaos and Climate

  A Two-Day Centenary Celebration of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | January 29, 2018

  WHOI Center for Marine Robotics Receives NextGEN Award

  The Center for Marine Robotics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was chosen to receive a NextGEN award by the Massachusetts TechHUB Caucus.
• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | January 29, 2018

  Scientists Pinpoint How Ocean Acidification Weakens Coral Skeletons

  The rising acidity of the oceans threatens coral reefs by making it harder for corals to build their skeletons. A new study led by Nathaniel Mollica, an @MIT-@WHOI Joint Program grad student in Oceanography, identifies the details of how ocean acidification affects coral skeletons, allowing scientists to predict more precisely where corals will be more vulnerable.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | January 24, 2018

  New Type of Virus Found in the Ocean

  The unusual characteristics of these abundant, bacteria-killing viruses could lead to evolutionary insights.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 22, 2018

  Meet the Postdocs of E25

  Contributing to the Program of Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate’s McGee, Boyle and Summons labs
• News, WHOI News | January 22, 2018

  Feeling the Heat in the NW Atlantic

  Rising temperatures along the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean will force American lobsters (H. americanus) farther offshore and into more northern waters, according to a new study led by researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  A Double Whammy for Corals

  Global warming and local weather combine to cause massive bleaching
• News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  Can Clams and Oysters Help Clean Up Waterways?

  Survey shows potential for shellfish to reduce excess nitrogen
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  Taking Earth’s Inner Temperature

  Why the mantle may be hotter than we thought
• News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  Re-envisioning Underwater Imaging

  Scientists can zoom into 3-D shipwrecks and seafloor landscapes