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• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | April 25, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant is accepting nomincations for the Dean Horn Award

  MIT Sea Grant is now accepting nominations for the Dean Horn Award. The award recognizes an MIT undergraduate student for their excellence in design and execution of a marine related research project and for clear communication of results.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | April 16, 2018

  Ocean Acidificaiton Training Webinar for Citizen Science Monitoring Programs April 30th

  Ocean and Coastal Acidification (OCA) Monitoring: Training Webinars for Citizen Scientists
• MIT Sea Grant, News | April 16, 2018

  MIT Sea Grant Hosts Ocean and Coastal Acidification Citizen Science Monitoring Workshop May 10th

  MIT Sea Grant will be hosting a one day workshop focused on citizen science monitoring for ocean and coastal acidification (OCA). The workshop will be held on May 10th, 2018 from 9 am to 4:30 pm.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | April 15, 2018

  Earth Day Quest: Delectable Oysters

  City Nature Challenge 2018: Boston Area
• MIT Sea Grant, News | April 15, 2018

  City Nature Challenge: Delectable Oysters Quest April 27-30

  MIT Sea Grant worked with iNaturalist to develop the City Nature Challenge Delectable Oyster Data Quest. From April 27-30 participants will explore the marine biome along the Greater Boston Coast, counting oysters to help determine whether our native Eastern oyster is holding its own, or whether the exotic European oysters truly are taking over.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | April 9, 2018

  2018 Spring Newsletter

  Catch up on the latest from MIT Sea Grant
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 9, 2018

  Microbial Competition for Nitrogen

  New framework shows how ecological interactions among microorganisms account for nitrite accumulation just below the sunlit zone, with implications for oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycling.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | April 8, 2018

  Join MIT Sea Grant at the Cambridge Science Festival Robot Zoo on Saturday April 14th!

  MIT Sea Grant will have tanks and a pool set up at the Cambridge Science Festival's Robot Zoo. Kids and adults alike can drive a Sea Perch underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROV) or test their piloting skills as they try to maneuver a miniature marine surface vehicle around obstacles in a pool. Julie Simpson and Carolina Bastidas will have some crabs, snails and seaweed for kids to explore our local estuaries.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | April 2, 2018

  Perks and Challenges of International Fieldwork

  A glider deployment in the Seychelles.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | March 24, 2018

  Celebrating the Science of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz

  MIT professors Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz profoundly shaped the field of meteorology during their lifetimes. Charney laid the groundwork for numerical weather prediction and saw it transform nearly every aspect of the field, while Lorenz changed our conception of weather from deterministic phenomena to chaos.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | March 23, 2018

  This is What a Scientist Looks Like

  Researchers from MIT EAPS celebrate women in science at MIT Museum’s Girls Day.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | March 21, 2018

  Soft robotic fish swims alongside real ones in coral reefs

  Made of silicone rubber, CSAIL’s “SoFi” could enable a closer study of aquatic life.
• MIT Sea Grant, News | March 20, 2018

  Workshop on Salt Marsh Response and Resilience to Changing Conditions – Prospects for Management

  Joint Meeting with New England's National Estuarine Research Reserves (April 26-28), including a full day workshop on salt marshes on Thursday, April 26th.
• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News | March 18, 2018

  EAPS in Brief: Marine Biochemist Andrew Babbin

  Meet Andrew Babbin, a marine biogeochemist working on the nitrogen cycle, especially on the processes that return fixed nitrogen in the ocean back to nitrogen gas.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | March 14, 2018

  3Q: Uncovering the Nitrogen Cycle in Coral Reefs

  Marine scientist Andrew Babbin’s group scuba dives in Cuban waters for a closer look at the biogeochemistry in pristine corals.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | March 14, 2018

  EAPS in Brief: Marine Biochemist Andrew Babbin

  Meet MIT EAPS assistant professor Andrew Babbin. He's a marine biogeochemist, working on the nitrogen cycle, and especially on the processes that return fixed nitrogen in the ocean back to nitrogen gas. This work is relevant, for instance for understanding the controls on marine productivity and the ocean’s potential for storing carbon.
• MIT, News | March 8, 2018

  Happy Women’s Day to Ellen Swallow Richards!

  She's MIT’s first female graduate and faculty member and a pioneer in water quality, nutritional safety, and ecology. She also raised funds to establish a marine biology laboratory in 1881, which became the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | February 28, 2018

  Where Fresh is Cool in Bay of Bengal

  Monsoon runoff generates cool tendrils at surface, cuts off nutrients.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 22, 2018

  A message from the director of MIT Sea Grant

  The ‘President’s Budget’ for fiscal year 2019 was released earlier in February and has proposed eliminating the Sea Grant program. The president of MIT Sea Grant proposes writing to members of Congress in support of the program and provides a sample letter.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | February 16, 2018

  Stefan Helmreich conducts fieldwork aboard the unique FLIP ship

  MIT anthropologist is researching how scientists understand waves + VIDEO