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• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | September 6, 2017

  How Do Fish Find Their Way?

  Hatched in the ocean, larvae may use sound to settle on reefs. MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography graduate student Justin Suca is investigating whether tiny larval fish use sound to navigate from the open oceans where they hatch to coral reefs where they will settle down and live.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | August 31, 2017

  Neighboring Exoplanets May Hold Water, Study Finds

  Observations and modeling suggest TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets may have held onto water, billions of years after their formation.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT Sea Grant, News | August 30, 2017

  Undergraduate students join MIT Sea Grant for hands on summer research

  MIT Sea Grant's teaching lab was bustling this summer with more than 10 undergraduate students, and a handful of exceptional high school students all working on projects that varied from mapping eelgrass using drones to building ocean drifters and modifying ocean engineering teaching tools.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | August 28, 2017

  Did Dispersants Help Responders Breathe Easier at Deepwater Horizon?

  Chemical spray in depths may have raised air quality at surface
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | August 25, 2017

  Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli to Give Rachel Carson Lecture at AGU’s Fall 2017 Meeting

  The chosen female scientist exemplifies Rachel Carson’s work with cutting-edge ocean science, especially science relevant to societal concerns.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | August 24, 2017

  Saving Venice, MIT-style

  MISTI interns and MIT faculty tackle rising sea level challenges at Italian research camp this summer.
• MIT News | August 23, 2017

  For the Love of Ice: Journeys to the Remote and Inhospitable

  Alison Criscitiello PhD '14 seeks ice cores in inhospitable locations, sometimes camping on ice sheets and sleeping with a shotgun in case of bear attacks.
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | August 22, 2017

  Ancient Earth’s Hot Interior Created “Graveyard” of Continental Slabs

  Higher mantle temperatures caused subducting tectonic plates to sink much further than they do today.
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News | August 14, 2017

  MIT-WHOI Joint Program Graduate Students Launch a Blog

  Posts will comment on future of ocean science and engineering, experiences in the field and more.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | August 14, 2017

  New Study Details Ocean’s Role in Fourth-Largest Mass Extinction

  Global oceanic dead zones persisted for 50,000 years after end-Triassic extinction event
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | August 14, 2017

  WHOI Hosts Public Event Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Discovery of Deep-Sea Hot Springs

  Ballard will be the keynote speaker at a free public forum, hosted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) as part of the Morss Colloquia series, recapitulating the discovery of hydrothermal vent life 40 years ago on the Galápagos Rift near Galápagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The event will be held 6 to 8 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017 in the Lillie Auditorium, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole; it also includes a discussion afterward by a panel of scientists on current and future research on chemosynthetic life forms, which live on chemicals in the absence of sunlight—on Earth and possibly on other planetary bodies.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | August 10, 2017

  WHOI Scientist Selected 2017 Recipient of Walter Munk Award

  The Oceanography Society proudly announces that Dr. Andone C. Lavery has been selected as the 2017 recipient the Walter Munk Award in Recognition of Distinguished Research in Oceanography Related to Sound and the Sea.
• MIT News, News | August 9, 2017

  Six from MIT awarded 2017 Fulbright grants

  Grantees will spend the 2017-2018 academic year conducting research abroad. Jorlyn Le Garrec '17, who graduated this spring with a BS in mechanical and ocean engineering, will pursue a research-based mechanical engineering master’s degree through the University of Auckland. Le Garrec’s research focuses on underwater robotics.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | August 9, 2017

  New Technique Offers Clues to Measure Ocean Deoxygenation

  More than two percent of the ocean’s oxygen content has been depleted during the last half century, and marine “dead zones” continue to expand throughout the global ocean. This deoxygenation, triggered mainly by human activity, poses a serious threat to marine life and ecosystems.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT - The Darwin Project, MIT EAPS, News | August 4, 2017

  Phytoplankton & Chips

  Microbes mediate the global marine cycles of elements, modulating atmospheric CO2 and helping to maintain the oxygen we all breath yet there is much about them scientists still don’t understand. Now, an award from the Simons Foundation will give researchers from the Darwin Project access to bigger, better computing resources to model these communities and probe how they work.
• MIT, MIT Sea Grant, News | August 3, 2017

  Students build and test marine ROV’s as part of the E2@MIT Program

  MIT Sea Grant hosted 12 exceptional high school students, interested in underwater robotics, this past week as part of MIT’s E2@MIT science and engineering residential camp. Dr. Tom Consi, MIT Sea Grant’s research education specialist, instructed the students in making an underwater remotely operated vehicle or, ROV, commonly known as lSeaPerch.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | August 2, 2017

  Margaret Tivey to Become New Vice President and Dean of Academic Programs at WHOI

  Dr. Margaret K. (Meg) Tivey has been selected as the next Vice President and Dean for Academic Programs at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Tivey will oversee all academic programs at WHOI, which include the MIT-WHOI Joint Program (JP) in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science & Engineering for graduate students, postdoctoral and undergraduate programs, the graduate-level Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, and will serve as the WHOI point of contact for the Marine Biological Laboratory-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library.
• News, WHOI News | August 1, 2017

  WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center Extends August Hours

  The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Science Exhibit Center is extending its hours to include Sundays during the month of August.
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI | July 31, 2017

  From Computation to the Ocean, a Scientist Finds His Fit

  Science Magazine profiles MIT-WHOI Joint Program faculty member Mark Baumgartner.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | July 31, 2017

  Mapping Eelgrass with Drones: 2016 NOAA Hollings Scholar Scott Nesbit

  Nesbit along with MIT Sea Grant coastal ecologist Dr. Juliet Simpson use drones to map the locations of eelgrass beds throughout the coast of New England.