MIT Stories
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MIT - The Darwin Project, News | April 4, 2017
Darwin Celebrates Emily’s Doctoral Defense
Emily Zakem successfully defended her doctoral dissertation "Linking Microbes and Climate: Insights into the Marine Oxygen and Nitrogen Cycles with Microbial Metabolic Functional Types" on March 24. -
MIT, News, WHOI | April 3, 2017
Fidelity, Bright Horizons, WHOI Honored with 2017 AIM Vision Awards
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is recognized for its unique contributions to the cause of economic opportunity in Massachusetts by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI News | April 3, 2017
Don Anderson Selected for Prestigious Ketchum Award for Coastal Research
Senior Scientist Don Anderson will receive WHOI's prestigious 2017 Bostwick H. Ketchum Award, which honors an internationally recognized scientist who demonstrates an innovative approach to coastal research, leadership in the scientific community, and who forges a link between coastal research and societal issues. -
MIT, News | March 31, 2017
A Journey to the End of the World
Dr. Stefan Thiele, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, documents his recent research in Antarctica. -
MIT, News | March 31, 2017
Untangling the Physics of Fishing Gear
MIT-WHOI Joint Program alum and former WHOI postdoctoral investigator Julie van der Hoop '16 to receive an award for her paper on marine mammal science and the physics of fishing gear. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | March 31, 2017
Embrace Who You Are: One Latina Scientist’s Brave Journey in STEM
MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Gabi Serrato Marks profiles her colleague, Gabriela Farfan, about her dream of becoming a mineralogist and her experiences with culture and identity along the way. -
Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | March 30, 2017
Institute Award for the Love of Marine Chemistry
MIT-WHOI student Lauren Kipp to receive a Graduate Teaching Award -
MITgcm News | March 28, 2017
Melting Antarctica
This month we spotlight work by Alberto C. Naveira Garabato. Garabato and his team have been running idealized modelling experiments using MITgcm to study the immediate behavior of meltwater as it ascends from an ice shelf cavity. -
MIT - The Darwin Project, News | March 28, 2017
New Postdoc Aboozar Tabatabai
Tabatabai joins MIT's Darwin Project to help predict how marine biogeochemistry responds to global change. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 27, 2017
Tiny Bacterium Provides Window into Whole Ecosystems
Ubiquitous marine organism has co-evolved with other microbes, promoting more complex ecosystems. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 24, 2017
Storied Women of MIT: Pauline Morrow Austin
Storied Women of MIT is a series of 60-second historical profiles of MIT students, researchers, and staff that demonstrates the role of women at the Institute from its founding to today. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 24, 2017
Global Trekker
“This work has allowed me to see most of the world.” Geologist Oliver Jagoutz scales mountains to gain tectonic insights. -
MIT, News, WHOI | March 20, 2017
World’s Lakes May be Much Shallower than Previously Thought
New mathematical analysis from MIT provides more accurate estimate of the depth and volume of the Earth's lakes, Adrian Cho of Science Magazine reports. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | March 20, 2017
Worm-Inspired Material Strengthens, Changes Shape in Response to its Environment
A bio-inspired gel material developed at MIT could help engineers control movements of soft robots. -
MIT, News | March 20, 2017
Standing Out in Earth and Planetary Sciences
MIT students and postdocs receive recognition for their outstanding presentations and posters at the 49th Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. -
MIT Sea Grant, News | March 19, 2017
SEA GRANT OPPORTUNITY – NOAA Sea Grant 2017 Aquaculture Initiative
Integrated Projects to Increase Aquaculture Production (NOAA-OAR-SG-2017-2005176) -
MIT Sea Grant, News | March 19, 2017
SEA GRANT OPPORTUNITY – Aquaculture Initiative
Addressing Impediments to Aquaculture Opportunities (NOAA-OAR-SG-2017-2005177) -
MIT Sea Grant, News | March 19, 2017
Biologists working to prevent spread of invasive crab into Gulf of Maine
The invasive mitten crab -- known for its devastating impacts on west coast marshes and commercial fisheries -- has not yet made its way into N.H. waters, and New England biologists are working to keep it that way. -
MIT, News | March 16, 2017
Two from MIT recognized as outstanding engineering leaders
Grad students Kristen Railey and Alexander Feldstein were named to the Aviation Week Network’s “20 Twenties” for 2017. -
MIT, News | March 15, 2017
Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton?
MIT Principal Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz weighs in on geoengineering the ocean's phytoplankton to curb the symptoms of climate change.
