MIT Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | September 28, 2016

  Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves

  Better simulations of internal tides may benefit sonar communications, protect offshore structures, and more.
• MIT, MIT News, News | September 23, 2016

  Eight School of Science Faculty Appointed to Named Professorships

  Oceanographer Raffaele Ferrari named the Cecil and Ida Green Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | September 23, 2016

  MIT Researchers Prove Fast Microbial Evolutionary Bursts Exist

  Study reveals closely related microbes can diversify rapidly via horizontal gene transfer.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | September 21, 2016

  An Autonomous Fleet for Amsterdam

  MIT, AMS Institute will collaborate to solve complex urban problems for Amsterdam with the development of autonomous "roboats."
• MIT, News, WHOI | September 16, 2016

  Giant algal bloom sheds light on formation of White Cliffs of Dover

  MIT's Sarah Z. Rosengard investigates how a great algae bloom at the bottom of the world might hold the key to how an iconic symbol of the United Kingdom came to be.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | September 14, 2016

  Computing the Ocean’s True Colors

  Stephanie Dutkiewicz’ phytoplankton models project the future of the ocean as food source and carbon sink
• MIT Sea Grant | September 11, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Seminar Friday September 16th from 11:00-12:30 Technology meets Learning Research

  Join us for a look at the Cyberlab’ s capabilities, its research, and the challenges of the creating, hosting and mining a big learning research dataset.
• MIT, News, WHOI | September 9, 2016

  A “Founding Father” of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Dies

  Joseph Keller, considered by many to be the 'Dean of Applied Mathematics', a developer of asymptotic analysis and a founder of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) at WHOI has passed away.
• MIT, MIT News, News | September 8, 2016

  Twelve School of Science Faculty Appointed to Career Development Professorships

  Kristin Bergmann accepts appointment as the Victor P. Starr Career Development Assistant Professor
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | September 7, 2016

  Study finds increased ocean acidification due to human activities

  More anthropogenic carbon in the northeast Pacific means weaker shells for many marine species.
• MIT Sea Grant | September 1, 2016

  Cranberry bog farm to coastal wetland: restoration progress

  MIT Sea Grant helps oversee the largest wetland restoration in the state of Massachusetts, analyzing and assessing the wetland's ecosystem services along the way.
• MIT Sea Grant | August 31, 2016

  Coastal Resilience, Invasive Species, and Carbon Cycling in Coastal Dune Habitat

  MIT Sea Grant coastal ecologist, Rob Vincent, characterizes ancient carbon cycling in an eroded coastal dune habitat.
• MITgcm News | August 31, 2016

  The Cost of Chalk

  This month we spotlight recently published work by Fanny Monteiro, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, and others, who have been using MITgcm to explore the biogeography of a class of phytoplankton with an outsized role to play in the global carbon cycle.
• MIT Sea Grant | August 29, 2016

  Gain hands-on field experience in new MechE course: Coastal Ecology for Engineers 2.S993

  Combining lectures and hands-on experiences in labs and field, participants will examine the ecology of coastal systems and explore technological challenges for studying them.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT Sea Grant, News | August 11, 2016

  Dean Alden Horn, former director of MIT Sea Grant College Program, dies at 95

  Retired U.S. Navy captain made many contributions to Arctic research and undergraduate marine education.
• MIT Sea Grant | August 10, 2016

  Facing the Surge: Screening of new sea level rise documentary on September 22nd from 12:00-1:30

  Facing the Surge documents the tangible costs of sea level rise for the people of Norfolk, VA, and it tells the stories of citizens from across the United States as they step forward to raise awareness and push their government to solve climate change.
• MIT Sea Grant | August 7, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Seminar Thursday August 18th from 12:00-1:30 – Dr. Bob Chen: Satellite Monitoring of Boston Harbor Water Quality

  Bob Chen from UMass Boston's School for the Environment will be speaking about how integrating remote sensing into water quality monitoring in the future will enhance our ability to manage our valuable coastal resources in a more resilient, sustainable manner.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | August 3, 2016

  The New York Times Follows Young Ocean Scientists Training in New England Waters

  New York Times Science reporter Nicholas St. Fleur joins a crew of young marine scientists as they train with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) aboard the R/V Atlantis for the second leg of a 2-week research cruise. Throughout the week, St. Fleur will be reporting live on Facebook on the team’s missions, the vessel and their discoveries happening off of New England’s eastern seaboard.
• MIT Sea Grant | July 31, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant bids farewell to former Director Caption (Ret.) Dean Alden Horn, USN

  Captain Dean Alden Horn, USN retired, Director of MIT Sea Grant College program from 1976-1982, passed away last month in North Carolina where he had lived for the past 25 years.
• MIT Sea Grant | July 31, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant UROP students build an ROV – Alicia Cabrera-Mino and Kyubin Lee

  Interns Alicia Cabrera-Mino, a senior at MIT in mechanical engineering, and Kyubin Lee, a sophomore at MIT, are learning more about ocean engineering with the MIT Sea Grant College Program.