MIT Stories

• MIT Sea Grant, News | December 8, 2016

  UNVEILING of NEW TECHNOLOGY: SEAWATER WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER

  On Dec 14th, the MIT AUV Laboratory is unveiling new technology that enables the first known wireless power transfer between a source and a receiver in seawater without physical contact.
• MIT Sea Grant | December 4, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Seminar ‘Wave Energy: State of the Art and the ISWEC Case Study’ Monday, December 12th from 11-12

  An examination of wave energy, which is seen as one of the most promising technologies for the future of renewable energy.
• MITgcm News | December 1, 2016

  Map Check

  This month we spotlight work by researchers at the University of South Florida who have been using MITgcm in a study assessing mapping error in Southern Ocean transport computed from satellite altimetry and Argo float data.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | November 23, 2016

  Saharan Dust in the Wind

  Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.
• MIT Sea Grant | November 20, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Seminar – FY2016 PI Reports on Ocean Acidification Projects

  The presentations on November 29, 2016, 12-4p include "Quantification of the Contribution of Wastewater Effluent to Coastal Ocean Acidification", "Impact of ocean acidification on calcification rate, shell properties, pallial fluid pH, and epigenetics of commercially important mollusks across critical life stages", and "Integrated impacts of temperature increase and ocean acidification on larval shell development in the American Lobster, Homerus americanus".
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | November 18, 2016

  Replicating Ancient Fossilization

  Using modern microbes to understand the preservation of marine bacteria
• MIT, News | November 17, 2016

  Predicting and Adapting to Increased Hurricane Risk

  Kerry Emanuel shares why hurricanes will likely become more destructive and offers ways to mitigate these increased risks.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | November 16, 2016

  Pluto’s icy, slushy heart

  Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto’s heart-shaped basin.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | November 11, 2016

  Big Ice, Big Science

  Richard Alley delivers the 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland, and Boston and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate.
• MIT Sea Grant | November 6, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Seminar: Characterizing a New England Saltmarsh with Terrestrial and Airborne Lidar

  The seminar will take place on Friday December 2nd, from noon to 1pm.
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News | November 3, 2016

  Tackling Questions of Ocean Physics with MIT Oceanographer Raffaele Ferrari

  Understanding ocean circulation, its climate impact, & how it shapes biological productivity with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) oceanographer Raffaele Ferrari.
• MIT, MIT News, News | November 1, 2016

  This Is How We Row

  MIT Lightweight Women’s Crew makes history at Head of the Charles.
• MIT, News | October 31, 2016

  Fall in MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate

  With the semester in full swing, MIT's Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (PAOC) members are enjoying several new, engaging and fun events happening in the department.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | October 25, 2016

  2015 & 2016 Rossby Awards Announced

  Jill McDermott '15 and Joern Callies '16 have been awarded the Rossby Prize for their respective theses.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | October 25, 2016

  Discovering Extreme Weather

  Incoming freshmen experience life in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheres and Planetary Sciences through weather and climate experiments and a hike up Mt. Washington during the 2016 Discovering EAPS (DEAPS) Freshman Pre-Orientation Program.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | October 25, 2016

  Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91

  Former head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering is remembered for his innovation, entrepreneurship, and vision for ocean engineering.
• MIT, News | October 7, 2016

  The Climate Context of Hurricane Matthew

  Kerry Emanuel, a professor of atmospheric science specializing in hurricane physics, joins Warm Regards to discuss 2016's Hurricane Matthew and the potential destructiveness of future hurricanes.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | October 5, 2016

  Beaver-inspired wetsuits in the works

  Rubbery hair-lined wetsuits may help keep surfers warm.
• MITgcm News, News | September 30, 2016

  Cloudy with a Chance of Aliens

  This month we spotlight recently published work by Vivien Parmentier and others, who have been using MITgcm to explore cloud distribution on hot Jupiters.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | September 28, 2016

  Ferrari Receives Prestigious Award for Excellence in Oceanography

  Raffaele Ferrari, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Director of the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, has been selected to receive the 2016 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences.