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Featured Stories | November 24, 2013
“Let’s Just Do Science:” The Origins of the Graduate Climate Conference
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WHOI - Oceanus | November 21, 2013
The Decline and Fall of the Emperor Penguin?
Climate Change and Shrinking Ice Threaten Polar Birds -
MIT Sea Grant | November 20, 2013
Nominations Open for 2014 Doherty Professorship
Cambridge, MA, November 21, 2013 - The MIT Sea Grant College Program announces 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 ... -
MIT - The Darwin Project | November 20, 2013
Winners and Losers: Phytoplankton in a Changing Climate
Stephanie Dutkiewicz at MIT Future Ocean Symposium, September 9, 2013. -
MIT News | November 15, 2013
How do we balance needs of energy, water, and climate?
In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers; including the need to curtail greenhouse-gas emission... -
WHOI News | November 15, 2013
Woods Hole Oceanographic’s Avery to Serve on United Nations Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Susan Avery, president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has been appointed to a Scientific Advisory Board announced by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. -
MIT News | November 14, 2013
Feeding the world without consuming the planet
Global population is expected to rise from about 7 billion today to close to 11 billion by the end of the century. This growing population will increase the demand for food, putting further strain on global land and water resources already feeling the ... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | November 14, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan And Rising Global Tides
Kerry Emanuel was a guest on NPR yesterday talking about the recent devastating typhoon that made landfall in the Philippines early Monday. Listen here -
MIT, MIT EAPS | November 5, 2013
Graduate Climate Conference 2013
The 2013 Graduate Climate Conference (GCC), held November 1-3 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was hosted by students in EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program -
Featured Stories | November 1, 2013
The 2013 PAOC Retreat: Sun and Science on Jiminy Peak
Related topics | Oceans and Climate -
MIT Sea Grant | October 28, 2013
High school students design and build underwater robots to mitigate a simulated oil spill disaster in the MIT pool.
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Featured Stories | October 27, 2013
“We Can and We Must:” Drew Shindell on Air Pollution and Climate Change Action
Related topics |Human Influences | Hazards and Disasters -
Featured Stories | October 23, 2013
One Step Ahead of the Next Marine Invader
Related topics | Ocean Ecology | The Coastal Oceans -
WHOI News | October 23, 2013
Dolphins Assist Scientists Studying Effects of Data-logging Tags
For scientists studying marine mammals in the wild, data-logging tags are invaluable tools that allow them to observe animals’ movements and behaviors that are otherwise hidden beneath the waves much of the time. The tags, which temporarily attac... -
WHOI News | October 18, 2013
WHOI Scientists Receive $11.6 Million to Measure Changes in Ocean Circulation
A new five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation will, for the first time, allow scientists to directly measure these ocean pathways over the entire subpolar region of the North Atlantic. Oceanographers from WHOI and their colleagues f... -
WHOI News | October 18, 2013
Seeing in the Dark
The Yangtze finless porpoise, which inhabits the high-traffic waters near the Three Gorges Dam in China, is highly endangered, with only about 1,000 animals alive today. Scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and their Chinese coll... -
Featured Stories | October 11, 2013
In the Future, Ultra-Deep Water Oil Fields, New Carbon Capture Tech
Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Oceans and Climate -
MITgcm News | October 7, 2013
Small Storms; Big Floods: Far-Reaching Impacts
This month we focus on Alan Condron, a Research Assistant Professor in the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who uses MITgcm to investigate past and future climate sensitivity to changes in Arctic meltwater. -
Featured Stories | October 5, 2013
Mission TULiP: A Robotic Pursuit on the Charles River
Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
