Who is Oceans at MIT?

Oceans at MIT reaches across the Institute to bring together a wide and diverse group of faculty, lecturers, research staff, and students dedicated to ocean-related research. To answer vital questions about the future of the Earth’s oceans, they pool their expertise in physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, geophysics, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, ocean engineering, fluid dynamics, acoustics, environmental management, and other disciplines.

The Oceans at MIT faculty represents a number of MIT departments and centers, including these key partners in ocean research:

• Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)—
  Parsons Laboratory 
• Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)—
  Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate 
• Mechanical Engineering (MechE)—
  Center for Ocean Engineering
• MIT Sea Grant College Program
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• AeroAstro

Oceans at MIT closely collaborates with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI):

• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Oceans at MIT involves an ever growing number of participating organizations, including:

• MIT Biology
• MIT Sloan School of Management
• Center for Global Change Science
• Joint Program in the Science and Policy of Global Change
• The MIT Science Impact Collaborative
• MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning