MIT Stories

• MIT News | April 13, 2016

  Koichi Masubuchi, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 92

  Masubuchi, a leading expert on welding science and fabrication technology, also started the Japanese Language School.
• MIT EAPS, News | April 12, 2016

  MIT’s EAPS Brings Science into the Community with the Cambridge Science Festival

  MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheres, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Cambridge Science Festival with engaging, family-friendly science exhibits and demonstrations around Cambridge on April 22nd and 23rd.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 11, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’96 alum Samantha Woods

  Samantha Woods has been the Executive Director of the North and South Rivers Watershed Association (NSRWA) since 2002.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 5, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’09 alum Abigail Franklin Archer

  Abigail Archer came back to Sea Grant after her fellowship and is now a Marine Resource Specialist agent at Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension & Woods Hole Sea Grant.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 4, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’88 alum Michael Nelson

  Michael R. Nelson works on Internet-related global public policy issues for CloudFlare, a startup that has improved the performance and security of more than 4 million Web sites worldwide.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 4, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’11 alum Caitlin Frame

  Caitlin is a research scientist, at the University of Concepcion and the Center for Climate Science and Resilience in Chile. She studies the production, destruction, and transport of the trace greenhouse gas nitrous oxide in the environment.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 30, 2016

  April 5th Brown Bag Seminar: Green Eelgrass, Blue Carbon by Dr. Julie Simpson of MIT Sea Grant

  Eelgrass meadows are critical coastal ecosystems, helping to tie down sediments, improving water clarity and providing a habitat for marine animals like fish, scallops, crabs and lobsters. Julie Simpson is working with several partners to conduct a study to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts. By understanding the role that eelgrass ecosystems play in preparing for and mitigating the effects of climate change we can better make the case for securing protection and restoration resources.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 27, 2016

  Welcome to Sea Grant Dr. Tom Consi

  MIT Sea Grant is excited to announce our new Research Education Specialist, Tom Consi.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 20, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant is making sure fishing communities are heard

  MIT Sea Grant is celebrating Sea Grant's 50th Anniversary with a look back at the work of our anthropologist Madeleine Hall-Arber. While at Sea Grant, she's focused on fishing communities in New England, studying the social impact of new regulations and working to make fisherman safer.
• MIT News | March 18, 2016

  DNA markers tell the story of deep sea adaptation

  Santiago Herrera studies the genome to establish new connections between species living in the deep sea.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 17, 2016

  New Digital Coast Fellowship Opportunity

  The NOAA Office for Coastal Management is recruiting candidates for three Digital Coast Fellowship opportunities in 2016. This program is modeled after the Coastal Management fellowship program and has a similar mission: to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to Digital Coast Partnership organizations.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 9, 2016

  CRAB-MIT Sea Grant Chart of the Charles River

  Sediment deposition has been a long standing problem in the Charles River, where major tributaries empty into it. Now, MIT Sea Grant is using low cost, commercially available, fish finding equipment mounted on both autonomous surface vehicles and volunteer driven boats to chart parts of the Charles River that haven't been mapped for decades.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 8, 2016

  2016 Blue Lobster Bowl

  MIT Sea Grant College Program, Woods Hole Sea Grant and The National Ocean Science Bowl sponsored the 19th Annual Blue Lobster Bowl on March 5th, 2016. Twenty teams of students from 12 Massachusetts high schools put their physical oceanography, ocean policy, and marine biology knowledge to the test, competing to become regional champion and represent Massachusetts at the 19th Annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl Finals.
• MIT - The Darwin Project | March 8, 2016

  Source waters for the highly productive Patagonian shelf in the southwestern Atlantic

  MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) researchers Song, H., J. Marshall, M.J. Follows, S. Dutkiewicz, and G. Forget author "Source waters for the highly productive Patagonian shelf in the southwestern Atlantic" published in the Journal of Marine Systems, early online edition.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 7, 2016

  Sea Grant celebrates its 50th anniversary

  On March 8, Sea Grant will celebrate its 50th anniversary of promoting conservation and sustainable development of our marine resources through research, education and outreach.
• MIT News | March 2, 2016

  Whales dine with their own kind

  Mapping whale calls, researchers find the predators feed in species-specific hotspots.
• MIT News | March 1, 2016

  New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detection

  Surface waves can trigger powerful sound waves that race through the deep ocean, study suggests.
• MIT News | February 25, 2016

  Rogue wave ahead

  New prediction tool gives 2-3 minute warning of incoming rogue waves.
• MIT Sea Grant | February 21, 2016

  Green Eelgrass, Blue Carbon

  MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to conduct a study to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts.
• MIT - The Darwin Project | February 19, 2016

  Keeping Things the Same

  In a paper published online in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, the Follows group reports on new ways to understand what ecosystem factors could cause the elemental composition of organic matter to remain stable even when phytoplankton vary.