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MIT Sea Grant | October 3, 2013
Explorations in ocean engineering Education. Brown Bag Seminar with Kathryn Shroyer, Engineering Educator, MIT Sea Grant
Date: Monday, November 4, 2013 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm Location: MIT E38-300 Bring your lunch and learn about how MIT Sea Grant teaches the next generation of ocean engineers. About Kathryn Shroyer Kathryn Shroyer grew up in San Antonio, Texas and he... -
MIT - The Darwin Project | October 2, 2013
The dynamics of dining in an all-you-can-eat-phytoplankton buffet
Assorted diatoms as seen through a microscope. These specimens were living between crystals of annual sea ice in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. – Image source: Wikimedia Predators’ switching towards the most abundant prey is a mechanism that stabilizes population dynamics and helps overcome competitive exclusion of species in food webs. However, current formulations of active prey-switching … Continue reading The dynamics of dining in an all-you-can-eat-phytoplankton buffet -
MIT News | October 2, 2013
Under the sea
A house by the sea isn’t uncommon, but it takes a true love of the ocean to want to live beneath the sea. Yet when ocean explorer Fabien Cousteau asked MIT senior Grace Young to join his team of aquanauts in living for a month underwater, Young didn -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 28, 2013
Faculty Award
EAPS congratulations to John Marshall, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography, who has been awarded the 2014 Sverdrup Medal of the American Meteorlogical Society. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 27, 2013
El Niño cycle has a big effect on a major greenhouse gas
Global modeling of soil nitrous oxide emissions reported by Eri Saikawa (now at Emory University, GA), Adam Schlosser and Ron Prinn finds decrease during El Niño, increase during La Niña. -
Featured Stories | September 26, 2013
MIT Alumni and Faculty Meet in San Francisco to Envision the Future Ocean
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WHOI - Oceanus | September 25, 2013
Rebuilding Alvin: Elder and Fournier
A series on the people who reassembled the iconic sub -
MIT Sea Grant | September 24, 2013
MIT Sea Grant and Engineering Experience at MIT (E2@MIT) offered Underwater Robotics as part of its summer program for high schoolers
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WHOI News | September 19, 2013
Doney receives A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science
WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney has been awarded the 2013 A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine Science. He will receive the award later this year at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Since 1980, the Royal Societ... -
MIT Sea Grant | September 17, 2013
Documenting Storm Damage & DIY Interactive Web Mapping. Guest speaker: Gregory A. Berman, Woods Hole Sea Grant
Date: Friday, September 27, 2013 Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm Room: E38-300 (292 Main St., Cambridge) Open to the public. Abstract This talk will cover rapid assessments of storm damage performed during Hurricane Sandy and subsequent winter storms. These r... -
WHOI News | September 13, 2013
Establishing World-Class Coral Reef Ecosystem Monitoring in Okinawa
WHOI researchers, working in partnership with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, have developed the Ocean Cube Observatory System, a marine observatory system installed in waters off Motobu Peninsula, Japan -- a b... -
WHOI News | September 12, 2013
Study explores complex physical oceanography in East China Sea
Just days before a team of researchers set out to conduct fieldwork in the East China Sea, Typhoon Morakot—one of the most destructive storms ever to hit Taiwan—made landfall on the island, causing widespread damage and drastically altering... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 10, 2013
Classroom Earth – DEAPS Extreme Weather and Climate 2013
Through a hands on exploration of the fluid dynamics underpinning weather and climate, via plumetting watermelons, to the meteorologically marvellous peak of Mount Washington, with geology, ecology and astronomy: DEAPS Extreme Weather and Climate has f... -
MITgcm News | September 9, 2013
Slip Sliding Away…
Dan Goldberg has been working with longtime MITgcmer Patrick Heimbach, looking at new ways to assimilate observations into glaciological flow models capable of representing fast streaming ice flow. -
Featured Stories | September 9, 2013
New Oceans Faculty Positions Shine Spotlight on PAOC
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MIT, MIT EAPS | September 4, 2013
Will the new global mercury treaty be effective?
MIT researcher Noelle Selin assesses the challenges of implementing the first global mercury treaty. -
MIT News | August 30, 2013
How to get fresh water out of thin air
In some of this planet’s driest regions, where rainfall is rare or even nonexistent, a few specialized plants and insects have devised ingenious strategies to provide themselves with the water necessary for life: They pull it right out of the air, fr... -
Featured Stories | August 26, 2013
Inside the Fastest Boats in America’s Cup History with MIT MechE
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MIT News | August 19, 2013
Large-scale irrigation
This article appears in the Spring 2013 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative. Subscribe today. Overview An MIT team is providing new understanding of the growing interconnections among three critical resources: energy, wat... -
MIT News | August 19, 2013
MIT alum receives Navy award
Rear Adm. Thomas J. Eccles NE, SM ’90 was recently recognized with the 2012 Rear Admiral Wayne E. Meyer Memorial Award from the United States Department of the Navy as part of its Acquisition Excellence Awards. He was awarded this honor for “superb...
