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• WHOI - Oceanus | April 20, 2016

  Audio Postcard: Remembering Knorr

  Illustrious research vessel departs after 44-year career
• MIT Sea Grant | April 18, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Spring Newsletter

  MIT Sea Grant has selected three research projects for funding from our annual request for proposals. The projects focus on understanding the impacts of ocean acidification and will collectively receive approximately $600 thousand in federal funding, with just over $300,000 in matching state, local, and private funding over a two year period.
• MIT News | April 18, 2016

  Study: Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages

  Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration.
• WHOI News | April 18, 2016

  WHOI to Assist in NTSB Search for El Faro Data Recorder

  WHOI will assist the National Transportation Safety Board as it undertakes its second search April 18, 2016, for the vessel data recorder (VDR) of the sunken El Faro cargo ship.
• Featured Stories, MIT | April 14, 2016

  Southern Ocean Cooling in a Warming World

  In contrast to environmental changes due to global warming, new research from MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate indicates that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean may be experiencing a period of cooling before warming takes over. And the culprit might be the ozone hole rather than greenhouse gases.
• MIT, News | April 14, 2016

  Evolution of Motivations for Climate Action

  Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science with MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate weighs in on how some motivations for climate action have evolved since the film "An Inconvenient Truth" premiered.
• WHOI News | April 14, 2016

  WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center Opens for 2016 Season

  The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Ocean Science Exhibit Center opens for another fun and engaging summer season on April 18, 2016. Visitors can learn about what’s happening with the world’s ocean and the innovative ocean science and engineering being done by WHOI researchers.
• WHOI News | April 14, 2016

  Steve Elgar Named National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow

  Steve Elgar, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has been selected as a 2016 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow (NSSEFF) by the Department of Defense.
• MIT News | April 13, 2016

  Koichi Masubuchi, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 92

  Masubuchi, a leading expert on welding science and fabrication technology, also started the Japanese Language School.
• MIT EAPS, News | April 12, 2016

  MIT’s EAPS Brings Science into the Community with the Cambridge Science Festival

  MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheres, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Cambridge Science Festival with engaging, family-friendly science exhibits and demonstrations around Cambridge on April 22nd and 23rd.
• WHOI News | April 12, 2016

  Swarming Red Crabs Documented on Video

  A research team studying biodiversity at the Hannibal Bank Seamount off the coast of Panama has captured unique video of thousands of red crabs swarming in low-oxygen waters just above the seafloor.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 11, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’96 alum Samantha Woods

  Samantha Woods has been the Executive Director of the North and South Rivers Watershed Association (NSRWA) since 2002.
• WHOI News | April 7, 2016

  R/V Neil Armstrong Arrives in Woods Hole

  On April 6, the research vessel Neil Armstrong was met by a jubilant crowd at the WHOI dock as it arrived to its home port for the first time, escorted by the WHOI coastal research vessel R/V Tioga, two Coast Guard boats and fireboats from neighboring towns.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 5, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’09 alum Abigail Franklin Archer

  Abigail Archer came back to Sea Grant after her fellowship and is now a Marine Resource Specialist agent at Barnstable County Cape Cod Cooperative Extension & Woods Hole Sea Grant.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 4, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’88 alum Michael Nelson

  Michael R. Nelson works on Internet-related global public policy issues for CloudFlare, a startup that has improved the performance and security of more than 4 million Web sites worldwide.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 4, 2016

  Where are they now? Find out how the Knauss Fellowship helped shape the career of ’11 alum Caitlin Frame

  Caitlin is a research scientist, at the University of Concepcion and the Center for Climate Science and Resilience in Chile. She studies the production, destruction, and transport of the trace greenhouse gas nitrous oxide in the environment.
• WHOI - Oceanus | April 4, 2016

  Our Ship Comes In

  Research vessel Neil Armstrong joins the WHOI fleet.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 30, 2016

  April 5th Brown Bag Seminar: Green Eelgrass, Blue Carbon by Dr. Julie Simpson of MIT Sea Grant

  Eelgrass meadows are critical coastal ecosystems, helping to tie down sediments, improving water clarity and providing a habitat for marine animals like fish, scallops, crabs and lobsters. Julie Simpson is working with several partners to conduct a study to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts. By understanding the role that eelgrass ecosystems play in preparing for and mitigating the effects of climate change we can better make the case for securing protection and restoration resources.
• WHOI News | March 29, 2016

  Newly Upgraded ROV Jason: Bigger and Better

  A major, $2.4 million upgrade funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has made the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason more capable than ever.
• MIT Sea Grant | March 27, 2016

  Welcome to Sea Grant Dr. Tom Consi

  MIT Sea Grant is excited to announce our new Research Education Specialist, Tom Consi.