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• MITgcm News | December 5, 2014

  MITberg

  This month we report work by Alan Condron (UMass) using MITgcm, coupled with geological data, to show that massive icebergs and large volumes of meltwater were periodically transported along the east coast of North America as far south as southern Flor...
• WHOI News | December 3, 2014

  Scientists Urge Protection of World’s Deltas

  Scientists call for maintenance efforts to be started now to avert the loss of vast expanses of coastline, and the consequent losses of ecological services, economic and social crises, and large-scale migrations.
• Featured Stories | December 1, 2014

  Climate Feedback: Improving Media Coverage of Climate Science

  MIT's Emmanuel Vincent has launched Climate Feedback, a new web-based tool to improve the accuracy of climate science reporting in the media. Related topics |Human Influences
• WHOI - Oceanus | November 26, 2014

  Trouble in the Tropics

  Scientist explores mysterious food-borne illness: ciguatera
• WHOI News | November 26, 2014

  WHOI Part of the Stantec Team Selected to Lead Major Marine Arctic Ecosystem Study

  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), as a part of the Stantec Team, has been selected by an interagency scientific review panel to lead a long-term scientific study of the Arctic marine ecosystem along the Beaufort Sea shelf from Barrow, Alaska...
• WHOI News | November 24, 2014

  Underwater Robot Sheds New Light on Antarctic Sea Ice

  The first detailed, high-resolution 3-D maps of Antarctic sea ice have been developed using an underwater robot. Scientists from the UK, USA and Australia say the new technology provides accurate ice thickness measurements from areas that were previous...
• WHOI - Oceanus | November 19, 2014

  From Lab to Sea

  New course gives students hands-on training in the field
• Featured Stories | November 18, 2014

  Storify: MIT Aquanaut Spends 15 Days Under the Sea on Cousteau’s Mission 31.

  Oceans at MIT's Spotify of the Twitter Q&A with MIT Aquanaut Grace Young. Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• MITgcm News | November 13, 2014

  Getting to the Bottom of Greenland’s Glaciers

  MIT postdoc Roberta Sciascia has been using MITgcm to explore the variations in submarine melt rate of Helheim Glacier induced by glacier and intermediary circulations.
• WHOI - Oceanus | November 13, 2014

  Corals in Hot Water?

  Racing time to predict the fate of corals in a warming ocean
• Featured Stories | November 12, 2014

  Spotlight on MIT’s Sea Grass Carbon Storage Work

  MIT sea grass work is featured in the Boston Globe. Related topics | Ocean Ecology | The Coastal Oceans
• Featured Stories | November 10, 2014

  The Missing Piece of the Climate Puzzle

  MIT researchers find that a canonical view of global warming tells only half the story. Related topics | A Warming World
• WHOI News | November 10, 2014

  Fukushima Radioactivity Detected Off West Coast

  Monitoring efforts along the Pacific Coast of the U.S. and Canada have detected the presence of small amounts of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident 100 miles (150 km) due west of Eureka, California.
• MIT News | November 3, 2014

  Team of MechE and CSAIL students wins grand prize in Maritime RobotX Challenge

  Students partnered with Olin College of Engineering students to build an unmanned surface vehicle.
• Featured Stories | November 3, 2014

  RobotX, an international win for MIT marine vehicle designers

  MIT researchers take home the grand prize in an international Maritime RobotX Challenge centered on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• WHOI - Oceanus | November 3, 2014

  Big Questions About Tiny Bacteria

  Novel experiments probe how life thrives at the seafloor
• WHOI News | October 27, 2014

  Study Provides Some Answers to Fate of Deepwater Horizon Oil

  Nearly five years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion spilled roughly 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still working to answer the question: Where did all the oil go?
• MIT Sea Grant | October 26, 2014

  Team MIT-Olin takes first place at the Maritime RobotX Challenge in Singapore

• Featured Stories | October 24, 2014

  Peter Molnar Takes Down a Popular Scientific Theory at the 2014 John Carlson Lecture

  Prominent geophysicist Peter Molnar dismantled the long accepted explanation for why Earth's ice ages began when they did at the MIT Lorenz Center's 4th John Carlson Lecture: “Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life."
• WHOI - Oceanus | October 20, 2014

  Coral-Current Connections

  Remote island lies in a strategic spot for research