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Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | March 2, 2018
Previously Unknown “Supercolony” of Adelie Penguins Discovered in Antarctica
In a paper released on March 2nd in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists announced the discovery of a previously unknown "supercolony" of more than 1.5 million Adélie Penguins in the Danger Islands, a chain of remote, rocky islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula’s northern tip. -
Featured Stories, MIT Media Lab Open Oceans Initiative, News | February 28, 2018
Inspiration, Education, and Exploration at the Open Ocean Symposium
MIT Media Lab's Open Ocean initiative event, Here Be Dragons, brought together scientists, students, innovators, explorers, storytellers, and even some of our own Anderson Cabot Center researchers—in the name of ocean science, conservation, and exploration. -
Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | February 28, 2018
Where Fresh is Cool in Bay of Bengal
Monsoon runoff generates cool tendrils at surface, cuts off nutrients. -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 22, 2018
A message from the director of MIT Sea Grant
The ‘President’s Budget’ for fiscal year 2019 was released earlier in February and has proposed eliminating the Sea Grant program. The president of MIT Sea Grant proposes writing to members of Congress in support of the program and provides a sample letter. -
Featured Stories, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, News | February 20, 2018
The Art and Science of Immersive Climate Change Storytelling
Joint Program Co-Director mentors 360° video journalists -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | February 20, 2018
Rare Find from the Deep Sea
Scientists study a newly hatched dumbo octopus + VIDEO -
Featured Stories, MIT News, News | February 16, 2018
Stefan Helmreich conducts fieldwork aboard the unique FLIP ship
MIT anthropologist is researching how scientists understand waves + VIDEO -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT - The Darwin Project, MIT EAPS, News | February 15, 2018
PAOC Goes to Ocean Sciences 2018
Look out for the EAPS Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (PAOC) sharing their work at this year’s Ocean Sciences conference taking place February 11-16 in Portland, Oregon. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 15, 2018
Dr. Andrew Babbin is awarded the 2019 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
Dr. Andrew Babbin, an Assistant Professor in MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, was awarded the 2019 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. Endowed by the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, the two-year chair opens the way for promising, non-tenured professors to undertake marine-related research that will further innovative uses of the ocean's resources. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | February 14, 2018
Monitoring Bacteria on Whale Skin
Humpback microbiome linked to seasonal, environmental changes + VIDEO -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | February 12, 2018
MIT on Chaos and Climate: A Celebration of Two Pioneers of Modern Meteorology
MIT atmospheric scientists and trailblazers Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz gave us numerical weather prediction and chaos theory, highlighting the value of basic research. -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | February 8, 2018
MIT Sea Grant Visiting Artist Keith Ellenbogen wins Hollings Ocean Awareness Award
Keith Ellenbogen, a visiting artist at MIT Sea Grant was recently awarded an Ernest F. Hollings Ocean Awareness Award from the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation for his artistic and innovative project entitled: Space to Sea — A Photographic Journey into Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary. Keith, an assistant professor of photography at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, will work closely with Alison Nolan, Principal, Boston Harbor Cruises, to showcase the never before photographed dynamic underwater world of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to spark environmental awareness. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 8, 2018
To Track an Oil Spill
Robotic "bloodhound" to sniff for oil in ice-covered oceans -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | February 1, 2018
Tracking Unexploded Munitions
Long-buried ordnance lingers on U.S. coasts -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News | January 31, 2018
MIT Sea Grant announces four newly funded projects
MIT Sea Grant has selected four research projects for funding from our annual request for proposals including: Making Sense of the Variability of Coastal Ocean Acidification, Measuring Acid/Base Chemistry in the Extrapallial Fluids of New England's Commercially Important Mollusks, Quantifying Coastal Ocean Acidification Impacts on Estuarine Nitrogen Removal, Magnetic Induction (MI) Wireless Underwater Data Communications: Bottom-to-Surface Ocean Temperature Monitoring -
Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 29, 2018
MIT on Chaos and Climate
A Two-Day Centenary Celebration of Jule Charney and Ed Lorenz -
Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI News | January 29, 2018
Scientists Pinpoint How Ocean Acidification Weakens Coral Skeletons
The rising acidity of the oceans threatens coral reefs by making it harder for corals to build their skeletons. A new study led by Nathaniel Mollica, an @MIT-@WHOI Joint Program grad student in Oceanography, identifies the details of how ocean acidification affects coral skeletons, allowing scientists to predict more precisely where corals will be more vulnerable. -
Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | January 29, 2018
WHOI Center for Marine Robotics Receives NextGEN Award
The Center for Marine Robotics at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was chosen to receive a NextGEN award by the Massachusetts TechHUB Caucus. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | January 24, 2018
New Type of Virus Found in the Ocean
The unusual characteristics of these abundant, bacteria-killing viruses could lead to evolutionary insights. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 22, 2018
Meet the Postdocs of E25
Contributing to the Program of Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate’s McGee, Boyle and Summons labs
