Featured Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  A Double Whammy for Corals

  Global warming and local weather combine to cause massive bleaching
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  Taking Earth’s Inner Temperature

  Why the mantle may be hotter than we thought
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 22, 2018

  Will Oxygen in the Ocean Continue to Decline?

  New technique measures how fast deoxygenation can happen
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 19, 2018

  Microbial communities demonstrate high turnover

  New research provides insight into the behavior of microbial communities in the ocean.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 17, 2018

  A Primer on Understanding Climate Science

  MIT professor Kerry Emanuel explains the science behind climate change as well as the associated risks.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 11, 2018

  School of Science welcomes three new professors this spring

  This spring, the MIT School of Science welcomes three new professors in the departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. EAPS Brent Minchew's research focuses on the dynamics of extant glaciers, with an emphasis on the mechanics of glacier beds, ice-ocean interactions, and ice rheology.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | January 10, 2018

  A Close-up Look at a Rare Underwater Eruption

  Expedition to explore the Havre volcano reveals surprising details
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 6, 2018

  Nicholas Hawco PhD ’17 Receives the 2017 Rossby Award

  The award is given for the best PhD thesis done the preceding year within the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | January 3, 2018

  Scientists Find Surprising Evidence of Rapid Changes in the Arctic

  Scientists have found surprising evidence of rapid climate change in the Arctic: In the middle of the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, they discovered that the levels of radium-228 have almost doubled over the last decade.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 21, 2017

  Pairing Mismatch Helps Impaired Fish RNA Cleavage Proceed Swimmingly

  Researchers at Whitehead Institute have uncovered how small changes in the fish Argonaute (Ago) protein, an RNA slicing protein, that happened in its lineage an estimated 300 million years ago greatly diminished the efficiency of RNAi in these animals, while another ancestral feature, in a critical pre-microRNA, was retained that enabled the microRNA to still be produced despite the fish’s impaired Ago protein.
• Featured Stories, News | December 15, 2017

  Celebrating a decade of interdisciplinary microbiology

  The Microbiology Graduate PhD Program spans 50 labs across 10 departments and divisions, offering a broad approach to microbial science and engineering. Professors like Andrew Babbin Otto Cordero, Martin Polz, Penny Chisholm and Roger Summons are helping to prepare the next generation of scientists studying marine microbes.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | December 14, 2017

  Unlocking marine mysteries with artificial intelligence

  Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 12, 2017

  School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

  Sixteen new professors join seven of the school’s departments, two with a focus on ocean sciences.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | December 12, 2017

  Aqua Incognita

  The quest to establish outposts in the far reaches of the ocean
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | December 12, 2017

  Diving for Data

  Ocean Gliders and Their Pilots Are Helping Scientists Understand the Sea
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | December 12, 2017

  The Young Woman and the Sea

  A conversation with WHOI mooring technician Meghan Donohue
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | December 8, 2017

  Researchers Establish Long-sought Source of Ocean Methane

  An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI News | December 6, 2017

  WHOI Ship Atlantis Launches New Mission to Find Missing Argentinian Submarine

  Research vessel loads Navy deep-diving vehicle
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 4, 2017

  Alumnus Uses Unique Sonar to Reveal Underwater Mysteries

  Profile of Alum Martin Klein ’62
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | November 8, 2017

  Research for Global Needs, Present and Future

  New Research Reception gives alumni and the community an inside look at research and initiatives in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.