MIT Stories
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MIT Sea Grant | March 2, 2014
MIT Sea Grant College Program pulls off the 17th Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT!
MIT Sea Grant College Program organized and hosted the 17th annual Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT on March 1, 2014. This year's tournament included 120 students from 15 Massachusetts high schools and was free and open to the public. Teams of students were ... -
MIT News | February 23, 2014
Researchers find that going with the flow makes bacteria stick
In a surprising new finding, researchers have discovered that bacterial movement is impeded in flowing water, enhancing the likelihood that the microbes will attach to surfaces. The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems, a... -
MIT News | February 20, 2014
New sensor detects contaminants in water in real time
Researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM) have developed a low-cost, compact, multiplatform-compatible sensor that provides a holistic solution for mon... -
MIT News | February 13, 2014
A brighter future for filtered seawater
The challenge of dwindling fresh-water supplies looms ever larger as droughts become more common and population increases. To combat this challenge, MIT researchers evaluate the potential for cheaper, smaller, and faster desalination plants in a new st... -
MIT Sea Grant | February 9, 2014
Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities
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MIT, MIT EAPS | February 3, 2014
Weathering the 2014 IAP
It’s been a bone-chilling two weeks here in Cambridge during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP), and thanks to Course 12.310 ‘An Introduction to Weather Forecasting,’ twenty new amateur forecasters can tell you that the northwest winds b... -
MIT Sea Grant | January 27, 2014
Funding Opportunity: NOAA Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program
The Federal Funding Opportunity has been announced for the NOAA Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program 2014 competition. Funding Opportunity Number: NOAA-OAR-SG-2014-2003987; Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 11.417, Sea Grant S... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 23, 2014
Reading Ocean Waves to Predict Ground Shaking in Earthquakes
Seismologist Germán Prieto and co-authors show a rupture of the San Andreas Fault could generate three times more shaking in Los Angeles than surrounding regions. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 22, 2014
When Science, Politics and Environmental Policy Meet
What’s the difference between climate change, the Northern spotted owl, and acid rain? -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 17, 2014
MITx Course injects Science into the Global Warming Debate
12.340x (Global Warming Science) focuses on teaching students academic rigor, not rhetoric. Learn about the new online course from co-teacher Kerry Emanuel. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 14, 2014
EAPS Goes to AGU 2013
Between talks and posters, researchers from MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences contributed to over one hundred presentations at the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting this past December. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | January 9, 2014
Ahoy! First ocean vesicles spotted
EAPS' Florence Schubotz and Roger Summons, together with researchers in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Biology Departments, discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes. -
MIT News | January 9, 2014
Predicting the future of global water stress
Population growth and increasing social pressures on global water resources have required communities around the globe to focus on the future of water availability. Global climate change is expected to further exacerbate the demands on water-stressed r... -
MIT News | January 8, 2014
The ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Their effect on the surface of the ocean is negligible, producing a rise of just inches that is virtually imperceptible on a turbulent sea. But internal waves, which are hidden entirely within the ocean, can tower hundreds of feet, with profound effect... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | December 23, 2013
Air pollutants in the Arctic act as global indicators
A new study by co-authors postdoc Carey Friedman, assistant professor Noelle Selin, and others, looking at the influence of climate change on the transport of toxic chemicals, finds the success of emissions reduction will be affected by climate ch... -
MIT News | December 13, 2013
Water, water everywhere: But is there enough to drink?
The challenge of supplying clean, safe drinking water to an expanding world population comes down to money, MIT economist Franklin Fisher says: We are surrounded by water — it covers 71 percent of Earth’s surface — and industrial-scale desalinati... -
MIT News | December 12, 2013
Homing in on stressed coral
Coral reefs, the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world’s oceans, provide safe harbor for fish and organisms of many sizes that make homes among the branches, nooks, and crannies of the treelike coral. But reefs — even the well-protected Great Bar... -
MIT - The Darwin Project | December 11, 2013
For the Good of the Colony
by Jennifer Chu for MIT News Read this story at MIT News. For some microbes, the motto for growth is not so much “every cell for itself,” but rather, “all for one and one for all.” MIT researchers have found that cells in a bacterial colony grow in a way that benefits the community as … Continue reading For the Good of the Colony -
MIT News | December 10, 2013
In the World: A long haul to bring clean water to developing nations
“It’s been a long, hard slog,” says Susan Murcott, a senior lecturer in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, describing her efforts to disseminate water-filtration systems to some three million people in northern Ghana. Abou... -
MIT Sea Grant | December 8, 2013
2014 NMFS – Sea Grant Graduate Fellowships in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and in Marine Resource Economics is now open.
Competition for the 2014 NMFS - Sea Grant Graduate Fellowships in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics (formerly Population Dynamics) and in Marine Resource Economics is now open. The NMFS - Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship is available to US citizen...
