MIT Stories
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MIT Sea Grant | December 8, 2014
A new center for the preservation and presentation of New Bedford’s fishing industry will open with MIT Sea Grant specialist as a founding member.
MIT Sea Grant Marine Anthropologist Madeleine Hall-Arber is one of the founding members of a newly established non-profit organization, the New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center, Inc. The mission of the Center will be: To educate the public about the his... -
MITgcm News | December 5, 2014
MITberg
This month we report work by Alan Condron (UMass) using MITgcm, coupled with geological data, to show that massive icebergs and large volumes of meltwater were periodically transported along the east coast of North America as far south as southern Flor... -
MITgcm News | November 13, 2014
Getting to the Bottom of Greenland’s Glaciers
MIT postdoc Roberta Sciascia has been using MITgcm to explore the variations in submarine melt rate of Helheim Glacier induced by glacier and intermediary circulations. -
MIT News | November 3, 2014
Team of MechE and CSAIL students wins grand prize in Maritime RobotX Challenge
Students partnered with Olin College of Engineering students to build an unmanned surface vehicle. -
MIT Sea Grant | October 26, 2014
Team MIT-Olin takes first place at the Maritime RobotX Challenge in Singapore
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MIT - The Darwin Project | October 17, 2014
Mapping Nitrogen Fixation? Follow the Hydrogen.
The nitrogen cycle is fundamental to Earth’s biogeochemistry. Yet major quantitative uncertainties remain, particularly regarding the global oceanic nitrogen fixation rate. Hydrogen is produced during nitrogen fixation and will become supersaturated ... -
MITgcm News | October 3, 2014
Connecting the Dots with MITgcm
This month we look at new work exploring whether high resolution MITgcm tracer simulations can help "connect the dots" in the sparse sampling problem associated with observing the evolution of released dye in a shallow sea. -
MIT - The Darwin Project | September 19, 2014
Mixing Down Diversity
Phytoplankton are an extremely diverse set of floating, microscopic organisms, which are freely transported by water movements (current, eddies, etc.) and make up the base of the oceanic food web. This work, published in the September issue of Limnolo... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 3, 2014
Classroom Earth: DEAPS Extreme Weather and Climate 2014
Falling fruit, scintillating stargazing, magnificent Mt Washington: All this plus a very EAPS take on the ALS ice bucket challenge. -
MIT News | August 6, 2014
Undersea living: Alumna joins Cousteau mission
What’s it like living on the bottom of the ocean for more than two weeks? Nicer than you might think, according to Grace Young ’14. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | June 24, 2014
Tech Day 2014
Alumni took a big drink from the firehose on Saturday, June 7th, 2014 at the annual Tech Day program in Kresge Auditorium. This year's theme: The Future of Planet Earth. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | May 14, 2014
Dangerous storms peaking further north, south than in past
Powerful, destructive tropical cyclones are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a new study co-authored by EAPS' Kerry Emanuel. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | April 26, 2014
Ocean microbes display remarkable genetic diversity
Mick Follows, working with CEE colleague Sallie Chisholm and co-authors, have discovered unexpectedly large genetic diversity among even small populations of marine microbes living in a few drops of water. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News | April 24, 2014
Ocean Microbes Display Remarkable Genetic Diversity
One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations. -
MIT News | April 17, 2014
A robot dives into search for Malaysian Airlines flight
The AUV built by MIT spinout Bluefin Robotics will begin imaging the ocean floor in search of clues. -
MIT Sea Grant | April 8, 2014
MIT Sea Grant’s early technology blossoms into a tool assisting with the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Artificially intelligent submarines from Bluefin Robotics are currently assisting in the search for the Malaysian Airline jet that went missing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board. Bluefin is a 1997 commercial spinoff of MIT Sea Grant’s Autonom... -
MIT Sea Grant | March 24, 2014
Professor Niels Holten-Andersen receives the 2014 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
The 2014 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization was presented to Professor Niels Holten-Andersen in an award ceremony on March 25, 2014. In attendance were Professors Maria Zuber and Chrys Chryssostomidis. Professor Niels Holten-Andersen is an as... -
MIT News | March 16, 2014
Novel membrane reveals water molecules will bounce off a liquid surface
Consider the nearest water surface: a half-full glass on your desk, a puddle outside your window, or a lake across town. All of these surfaces represent liquid-vapor interfaces, where liquid meets air. Molecules of water vapor constantly collide with t... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | March 7, 2014
Measuring the Migration of a River
Researchers in Taylor Perron's group at MIT and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) have developed a mapping technique that measures how much a river network is changing, and in what direction it may be moving. Their results are publ... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | March 5, 2014
3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean
About 1000 meters down in a remote part of the Atlantic Ocean sits an unusual legacy of humanity’s love affair with the automobile. It’s a huge mass of seawater infused with traces of the toxic metal lead, a pollutant once widely emitted by cars bu...
