The NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics is designed to help Sea Grant fulfill its broad educational responsibilities and to strengthen the collaboration between Sea Grant and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

Apply through MIT Sea Grant or your state’s Sea Grant program by January 23, 2025.

The 88 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows in the 2025 cohort have been placed in the executive and legislative branches of government. MIT Sea Grant sponsored two 2025 Knauss Fellows: Laura Hancock, who just completed her Doctorate at UMass Amherst, and Natalia Perez, who just completed her Masters at Tufts.

NOAA Sea Grant is investing $8.8M across the Sea Grant Network to enhance aquaculture production, capacity, and knowledge sharing. MIT Sea Grant was awarded grants for two initiatives:

1) Supplemental funding to continue developing robotics for the aquaculture industry
2) AquaCulture Shock: International Internships for Aquaculture Knowledge Exchange

Sea Grant’s work in coastal communities across the U.S. takes center stage this month in a special issue of Oceanography. The journal features 36 articles from over 175 Sea Grant authors across the network covering diverse topics from applied education to ocean acidification. Explore MIT Sea Grant’s contributions, including articles highlighting SeaPerch II and a climate adaptation partnership weaving traditional ecological knowledge and STEM.

MIT Sea Grant, the Center for Bits and Atoms, and a team of engineers are hoping to fortify coastlines with “architected” reefs — sustainable, offshore structures engineered to mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while also providing pockets for marine life to live.

Details of the design are reported today in the open-access journal PNAS Nexus.

Across the Northeast, salt marshes and seagrass beds help mitigate climate change by absorbing large quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The EPA, MIT Sea Grant, and a network of partners are bringing blue carbon reservoirs into the spotlight through a collaborative effort involving extensive research and mapping. Read the report: Blue Carbon Reservoirs from Maine to Long Island NY.
(Photo: Phil Colarusso, EPA)

MIT students and engineers from MIT Sea Grant work with Ward Aquafarms in Cape Cod to help tackle some of the industry’s biggest challenges. The Oystamaran demonstrates that robots can perform extremely useful tasks in the ocean and serves as a model for future innovations in aquaculture.

Photo/Video by John Freidah, MIT MechE

Challenging conditions for familiar species like lobsters and scallops loom by mid-century.

MIT Sea Grant Research Scientist Carolina Bastidas contributed to this report with a team from across New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces, providing up-to-date information on the Gulf of Maine and actionable solutions to increase resiliency.