MIT Stories
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MITgcm News | September 4, 2012
Strange New Worlds
This month we focus on research using MITgcm to model atmospheres on Jupiter-like exoplanets showcasing work by recent University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory graduate, Nikole Lewis. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | August 30, 2012
Modeling Marine Microbes
When used properly, models provide valuable insights into complex systems and sometimes yield surprising, even counterintuitive outcomes. Darwin Project researcher Stephanie Dutkiewicz explains her groups work. -
MIT Sea Grant | August 21, 2012
MIT Sea Grant’s Brenden Epps Assumes Professorship at Dartmouth College
By Lillie Paquette MIT Sea Grant College Program CAMBRIDGE, MA - AUGUST 22, 2012 - After two-and-a-half years as a post-doctoral research engineer with MIT Sea Grant, Brenden Epps has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Engineering at Dartmo... -
MIT News | August 9, 2012
Autonomous robotic plane flies indoors
For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Dozens of research teams have competed in ... -
MIT Sea Grant | August 5, 2012
High school students make important scientific discovery as part of MIT Sea Grant’s Ocean Science Internship
CAMBRIDGE, MA - AUGUST 6, 2012 - A group of four outstanding Massachusetts and Connecticut high school students are the first on record to encounter and identify non-native European rock shrimp in Boston Harbor last month. The students were conductin... -
MIT EAPS | August 5, 2012
Exploring the Arctic
Researcher An Nguyen reports on a numerical modeling study to better understand the origin and character of the western arctic upper halocline. -
MITgcm News | August 5, 2012
MITgcm on Ice
In a recent paper in the Journal of Physical Oceanography, An Nguyen (MIT) and co-authors Ronald Kwok (JPL) and Dimitris Menemenlis (JPL) report on work using MITgcm to better understand the origin and character of the western arctic, upper haloclin... -
MITgcm News | August 3, 2012
MITgcm on the Beach
At this time of the year newspapers and magazines abound with suggestions for things to read on vacation. MITgcm recommends popping copies of the following recent papers in your beach bag, after all, there’s more than one way to study the ocean! -
MIT Sea Grant | July 29, 2012
High School Students Participate in MIT Sea Grant’s Ocean Engineering Experience
The Ocean Engineering Experience (OEX) is a one-week, hands-on, residential ocean engineering program for high school students entering their junior or senior year. This program is designed to engage students in challenging real-world educational activ... -
MIT Sea Grant | July 26, 2012
Participate in our joint MIT & Woods Hole Sea Grant Survey
The National Sea Grant Program and individual Sea Grant programs are developing strategic plans for 2014-2018. The four major focus areas for the plan are (1) Healthy Coasts, Oceans and Great Lakes; (2) Safe Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture; (3) R... -
MIT News | July 26, 2012
Newfound gene may help bacteria survive in extreme environments
In the days following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, methane-eating bacteria bloomed in the Gulf of Mexico, feasting on the methane that gushed, along with oil, from the damaged well. The sudden influx of microbes was a scientific curiosity: Pri... -
MIT Sea Grant | July 22, 2012
Upcoming presentation on REX II at NOAA Conference
MIT Sea Grant summer intern and Hollings Scholar Collin Perkinson is scheduled to make a presentation at an upcoming NOAA conference on three-dimensional underwater imagery research. Perkinson, a Reed College student, will discuss the MIT Sea Grant st... -
MIT Sea Grant | July 17, 2012
MIT researchers set Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) in action with new technologies
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MIT News | July 16, 2012
Said and Done for June/July 2012
Said and Done is the monthly, photo-rich publication from MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, integrating feature articles with news, research and events to give you a distilled overview of the school's endeavors. For the complete... -
MIT News | July 12, 2012
Mechanical engineers develop an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars
Barrels and cones dot an open field in Saline, Mich., forming an obstacle course for a modified vehicle. A driver remotely steers the vehicle through the course from a nearby location as a researcher looks on. Occasionally, the researcher instructs... -
MIT News | July 3, 2012
Book details a new model for sharing water
From the American Southwest to the Middle East, water is a highly contested resource: Many neighboring nations, and several states in the United States, have fought decades-long battles to control water supplies. And that need for water only seems like... -
MIT News | July 2, 2012
A new approach to water desalination
The availability of fresh water is dwindling in many parts of the world, a problem that is expected to grow with populations. One promising source of potable water is the world’s virtually limitless supply of seawater, but so far desalination technol... -
MIT News | June 27, 2012
Lead from gasoline discovered in Indian Ocean
Since the 1970s, leaded gasoline has been slowly phased out worldwide, as studies have shown that lead can cause neurological and cardiovascular damage and degrade vehicles’ catalytic converters. Today, 185 countries have stopped using leaded gas... -
MIT News | June 18, 2012
Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water
In his first State of the Union, President Barack Obama set a goal for 80 percent of America's electricity to come from clean energy. Last week, the release of the Renewable Electricity Future study by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NRE... -
MIT - The Darwin Project | June 11, 2012
At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean
Mick Follows is a Senior Research Scientist in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, at MIT. Together with the other members of the Marine Biogeochemical Modeling group (researchers Stephanie Dutkiewicz, and Oliver Jahn, postdocs Sergio Vallina, and Anne-Willem Omta, and graduate students Sophie Clayton, … Continue reading At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean
