MIT Stories
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MIT, MITgcm News | December 1, 2011
Wind Stress and Southern Ocean Meridional Overturning
Ryan Abernathey and co-workers have been using idealised MITgcm simulations to explore the dependence of Southern Ocean meridional overturning on wind stress. -
MIT News | November 10, 2011
Helping robots hold on
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This four-part series examines current MIT efforts ... -
MIT Sea Grant | November 8, 2011
Going with the flow: Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels.
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MIT News | November 8, 2011
Using a phone to fly a drone
Imagine controlling an airplane in flight just by holding your iPhone out in front of you: tilting it in the direction you want the plane to travel, or raising it to make the plane fly higher. Or tapping a point on a map on the screen, and having the p... -
MIT Sea Grant | November 7, 2011
Navigating blindfolded: Advanced mathematical techniques enable AUVs to survey large, complex and cluttered seascapes.
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MIT Sea Grant | November 6, 2011
AUVs: From idea to implementation: One day, researchers predict, these robots will be able to do tasks without a human in the loop.
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MIT News | November 4, 2011
Blooming ocean fronts
Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors the springtime thaw on land. But while spring arrives... -
MITgcm News | October 31, 2011
A Slippery Problem
Deremble and co-authors have been using MITgcm to revisit the problem of no-slip boundary conditions in ocean models. -
MIT News | October 21, 2011
MIT Sea Grant contributes to stormwater monitoring effort in Kingston, Mass.
The town of Kingston, Mass., with MIT Sea Grant’s assistance and funding from the Massachusetts Bays Program, has been sampling bacteria and suspended sediment at town-owned stormwater outfalls. The goal is remediation of outfalls contributing the mo... -
MIT News | October 20, 2011
Nominations now open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
The MIT Sea Grant College Program has announced that nominations are now open for the Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are eligible. Department heads may submit one nomination... -
MITgcm News | October 11, 2011
北极海冰数值预报的初步研究!!!MITgcm基于海冰!海洋耦合模式!”# $
This month we shine light on recently published work by a team of Chinese investigators who have been using MITgcm to study Arctic sea ice. -
MIT - The Darwin Project | September 9, 2011
Ecology of nitrogen fixers in the Pacific Ocean
Limiting nutrients and abundance of nitrogen fixers in the Pacific Ocean. Nitrogen is an essential component of all cells. It is used to make the amino acid building blocks of proteins, and is also required in the nucleic acids of DNA and RNA. Although nitrogen extremely abundant in the open ocean, it is mostly found … Continue reading Ecology of nitrogen fixers in the Pacific Ocean -
MIT Sea Grant | September 8, 2011
Boston Harbor Islands environmental monitoring effort aided by MIT Sea Grant interns
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MIT Sea Grant | August 18, 2011
Undergraduate develops method to predict spread of marine invasive species
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MIT News | August 15, 2011
Forecasting pipe fractures
A computer model that tests automobile components for crashworthiness could also be of use to the oil and gas industry, according to researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory, who are now using their simulations of material deformati... -
MIT News | July 21, 2011
Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor
As workers continue to grapple with the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, the crisis has shone a spotlight on nuclear reactors around the world. In June, The Associated Press released results from a yearlong investigation, revealin... -
MIT - The Darwin Project | July 18, 2011
The Tallest Tree in the Land
New model predicts maximum tree height across the United States; gives information about forest density, carbon storage - image: MIT News Knowing how tall trees can grow in any given region can give ecologists a wealth of information, from the potential density of a forest and size of its tree canopy to the amount of … Continue reading The Tallest Tree in the Land -
MIT - The Darwin Project | June 21, 2011
Biogeographical controls on the marine nitrogen fixers
Modeled diazotroph biomass (log10, μmolP per litre) In this study, Fanny Monteiro, Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Mick Follows, interpret the environmental controls on the global ocean diazotroph biogeography in the context of a three-dimensional global model with a self-organizing phytoplankton community. As is observed, the model’s total diazotroph population is distributed over most of the oligotrophic … Continue reading Biogeographical controls on the marine nitrogen fixers -
MIT - The Darwin Project | June 21, 2011
Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs
Mixotrophic organisms combine autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition and are abundant in both freshwater and marine environments Mixotrophic organisms combine autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition and are abundant in both freshwater and marine environments. Recent observations indicate that mixotrophs constitute a large fraction of the biomass, bacterivory, and primary production in oligotrophic environments. While mixotrophy allows greater … Continue reading Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs -
MIT News | June 15, 2011
Life after Snowball Earth
The first organisms to emerge after an ancient worldwide glaciation likely evolved hardy survival skills, arming themselves with tough exteriors to weather a frozen climate. Researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Smith College have discovered hundr...
