Featured Stories

• Featured Stories | November 18, 2014

  Storify: MIT Aquanaut Spends 15 Days Under the Sea on Cousteau’s Mission 31.

  Oceans at MIT's Spotify of the Twitter Q&A with MIT Aquanaut Grace Young. Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• Featured Stories | November 12, 2014

  Spotlight on MIT’s Sea Grass Carbon Storage Work

  MIT sea grass work is featured in the Boston Globe. Related topics | Ocean Ecology | The Coastal Oceans
• Featured Stories | November 10, 2014

  The Missing Piece of the Climate Puzzle

  MIT researchers find that a canonical view of global warming tells only half the story. Related topics | A Warming World
• Featured Stories | November 3, 2014

  RobotX, an international win for MIT marine vehicle designers

  MIT researchers take home the grand prize in an international Maritime RobotX Challenge centered on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• Featured Stories | October 24, 2014

  Peter Molnar Takes Down a Popular Scientific Theory at the 2014 John Carlson Lecture

  Prominent geophysicist Peter Molnar dismantled the long accepted explanation for why Earth's ice ages began when they did at the MIT Lorenz Center's 4th John Carlson Lecture: “Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life."
• Featured Stories | October 9, 2014

  Women in Marine Science Seize the Day

  The inaugural workshop of the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) took place at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on September 26, 2014. Related topics | Microbial Ecology | Outreach
• Featured Stories | September 25, 2014

  The 2014 PAOC Retreat in Cape Cod

  The faculty, graduate students, post-docs and staff of MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC) begin each year with a retreat supported by the Houghton Fund. The faculty, graduate students, post-docs and staff of MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC) begin each year with a retreat supported by the Houghton Fund. The 2014 PAOC Retreat took place at the Cape Codder Resort over the weekend of September 19th-21st.
• Featured Stories | September 24, 2014

  Voices of MIT at the People’s Climate March

  70 MIT students, researchers, and alumni took the opportunity to publicly demand action to combat the unchecked use of fossil fuels at the People's Climate March in NYC. Related topics |Human Influences | Hazards and Disasters
• Featured Stories | September 18, 2014

  Bio-inspired by octopus camouflage [Video]

  MIT video explores a new material that mimics the cephalopod's ability to change skin color and texture. Related topics |Human Influences
• Featured Stories | September 17, 2014

  Oceans at MIT summer round up

  Check out all the Oceans at MIT stories you might have missed while on vacation. Related topics | Oceans and Climate
• Featured Stories | September 9, 2014

  Where time stands still, ideas travel generations

  Tradition, chalkboard mathematics, "free-wheeling" lectures, mentorship, and ample time to think make the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics program a summer school like no other.
• Featured Stories | September 2, 2014

  Corals, tiny engineers of their own homes

  Corals are not passive inhabitants of the sea; rather, they are active engineers of their own environment. Related topics | Microbial Ecology | Ecosystems
• Featured Stories | August 27, 2014

  3 Questions with Carl Wunsch on the Ocean’s changing temperature

  Oceans at MIT asks Carl Wunsch about a major topic in today's climate change discussions: how the ocean's temperature has changed. Related topics | Oceans and Climate
• Featured Stories | August 21, 2014

  Solving the polar climate conundrum

  Ocean circulation explains why the Arctic feels the effects of global warming much more than the Antarctic. Related topics |Human Influences
• Featured Stories | August 19, 2014

  Flying on the Foils: a Q&A with Brooks Reed, MIT’s Moth Sailor

  All summer, a hydrofoiling sailboat has been flying atop the Charles River. The person skillfully handling this International Moth Class boat is none other than Brooks Reed, a professional sailor and MIT PhD student in MIT Mech E. Related topics | Ocean Engineering | Design of Ocean Systems
• Featured Stories | August 17, 2014

  Broadening the ‘scope’ of microbial oceanography

  With an infusion of private funds, MIT researchers will break new ground in the study of marine microbes at the legendary ocean field site Station ALOHA. Related topics | Microbial Ecology | Biogeochemical Cycles
• Featured Stories | July 7, 2014

  Seeing the “hump-shape” in microbial diversity

  An ocean ecosystem model from the Darwin Project solves the mysterious relationship between diversity and productivity of marine phytoplankton. Related topics | Microbial Ecology
• Featured Stories | July 1, 2014

  Going Local in the Coral Triangle

  One MIT researcher is helping rural fishing communities improve the resilience of the fragile marine ecosystems they depend on for everything. Related topics | Ocean Policy | The Coastal Oceans
• Featured Stories | June 29, 2014

  Watch it Again! MIT Sea Grant’s 2014 Coastal Climate Change Symposium

  MIT Sea Grant College convened a three-day symposium on coastal climate change between June 16-18 2014. Related topics |Human Influences | Hazards and Disasters
• Featured Stories | June 15, 2014

  MIT’s Plan to Save New Jersey from the Next Hurricane Wins the HUD Competition

  An MIT team has won the Rebuild by Design competition with their innovative plan to to protect New Jersey and Metropolitan New York coastlines from the next Hurricane Sandy.