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MIT, MIT EAPS | March 5, 2014
3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean
About 1000 meters down in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean sits an unusual legacy of humanity’s love affair with the automobile. It’s a huge mass of seawater infused with traces of the toxic metal lead, a pollutant once widely emitted by cars bu... -
MIT Sea Grant | March 2, 2014
MIT Sea Grant College Program pulls off the 17th Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT!
MIT Sea Grant College Program organized and hosted the 17th annual Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT on March 1, 2014. This year's tournament included 120 students from 15 Massachusetts high schools and was free and open to the public. Teams of students were ... -
Featured Stories | February 27, 2014
A Gold Medal in Oceanography
John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, recently accepted the 2014 Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his fundamental insights into water mass transformation and deep convection. Related topics | Oceans and Climate| Present and Future Oceans -
WHOI - Oceanus | February 27, 2014
Li’l Alvin
Diving enthusiast builds miniature version of famous sub -
WHOI News | February 25, 2014
Scientists Train the Next Generation on Oil Spill Research
As part of on-going research nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will team up with a group of high school students in Florida to collect remnants of oil from Gulf Coas... -
WHOI News | February 24, 2014
Radioactive Ocean Website Garners Public Support
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has teamed up with the public to build the most comprehensive and up-to-date dataset on marine radiation levels in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster. -
MIT News | February 23, 2014
Researchers find that going with the flow makes bacteria stick
In a surprising new finding, researchers have discovered that bacterial movement is impeded in flowing water, enhancing the likelihood that the microbes will attach to surfaces. The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems, a... -
Featured Stories | February 22, 2014
At the Lorenz Center, Water Unites Leaders in Climate Sciences
Thirty-seven leading climate researchers, along with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, participated in the Lorenz Center’s first scientific workshop, “Water in the Climate System." Related topics | Oceans and Climate| A Warming World -
MIT News | February 20, 2014
New sensor detects contaminants in water in real time
Researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM) have developed a low-cost, compact, multiplatform-compatible sensor that provides a holistic solution for mon... -
WHOI News | February 19, 2014
Three Years after Fukushima: Tracking Radionuclides in the Pacific Ocean
A press conference with scientists researching Fukushima radiation in the Pacific -
Featured Stories | February 13, 2014
A Brave New Ocean World
Related topics | Oceans and Climate | Ecosystems -
MIT News | February 13, 2014
A brighter future for filtered seawater
The challenge of dwindling fresh-water supplies looms ever larger as droughts become more common and population increases. To combat this challenge, MIT researchers evaluate the potential for cheaper, smaller, and faster desalination plants in a new st... -
WHOI News | February 13, 2014
Killing Whales by Design and Default
While countries such as Japan, Norway, and Iceland often are criticized for their commercial whaling practices, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) marine biologist Michael Moore points out how the majority of nations are also complicit in kill... -
WHOI - Oceanus | February 13, 2014
Mysterious Jellyfish Makes a Comeback
Rise in toxic stings has scientists on the alert -
WHOI News | February 12, 2014
Solving An Evolutionary Puzzle
For four decades, waste from nearby manufacturing plants flowed into the waters of New Bedford Harbor—an 18,000-acre estuary and busy seaport. The harbor, which is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals, is one of the... -
MIT Sea Grant | February 9, 2014
Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities
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Featured Stories | February 7, 2014
Stocker Lab’s Stunning Coral Wins A Prize
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WHOI News | February 6, 2014
A Look Back and Ahead at Greenland’s Changing Climate
Over the past two decades, ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet increased four-fold contributing to one-quarter of global sea level rise. However, the chain of events and physical processes that contributed to it has remained elusive. One likely trigg... -
WHOI - Oceanus | February 6, 2014
Message Bottled in an Email
A long-lost legacy of ocean research resurfaces -
MIT, MIT EAPS | February 3, 2014
Weathering the 2014 IAP
It’s been a bone-chilling two weeks here in Cambridge during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), and thanks to Course 12.310 ‘An Introduction to Weather Forecasting,’ twenty new amateur forecasters can tell you that the northwest winds b...
