• 2025 SEA GRANT FELLOWS PLACED

    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.

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    Collage of all 88 Knauss Fellows in the 2025 cohort

  • FY2025 NATIONAL AQUACULTURE INITIATIVE: STRENGTHENING US AQUACULTURE THROUGH BUSINESS SUPPORT

    Sea Grant anticipates that approximately $5M will be available for research projects and programs that focus on strengthening US aquaculture, developing new businesses, and enhancing output, efficiency, and profitability.

    Letters of Intent: Dec 4, 2024 / Apply by: Feb 12, 2025
    (Image: Keith Ellenbogen)

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  • NOW OPEN: STREAM AWARDS CALL FOR PROPOSALS

    MIT Sea Grant supports one-year projects under $10,000 through STREAM — Solutions Through Research, Education & Art in Massachusetts, open to a diversity of applicants.

    Request eSeagrant Access: Dec 16
    Apply by Dec 17

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  • MIT SEA GRANT AWARDED TWO AQUACULTURE GRANTS FROM NOAA SEA GRANT

    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

    LEARN MOREFULL NOAA SEA GRANT STORY

  • MA SEA GRANT FELLOWS FOCUS IN ON BLUE CRABS AND JELLYFISH

    MIT Sea Grant and WHOI Sea Grant welcome two new Massachusetts Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellows, Bridgett Hunt (right), who is starting her PhD with the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, and Neida Villanueva Galarza (left), who is beginning her PhD at Northeastern University.

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    MA Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellows Neida Villanueva Galarza and Bridgett Hunt

  • NEW MARINE DEBRIS VISUALIZATION INTERFACE

    MIT Sea Grant has developed a marine debris visualization interface with interactive tools for exploring the flow of debris from land to ocean through collaboration with Stonehill College, the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research, and a coalition of K-12 educators and students, environmental organizations, communities, and fishermen.

    The interface is a product of the project, “Massachusetts Marine Debris From Source to Stellwagen: A Comprehensive Suite of Tools for Environmental Educators“, which addresses marine debris across the “lifetime” of debris.

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    A map from the new marine debris visualization interface

  • RIVER HERRING MACHINE LEARNING MONITORING SYSTEMS

    MIT Sea Grant’s Robert Vincent and a team from Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential Robotics published an IEEE OCEANS paper on novel river herring machine learning monitoring systems. The paper, “Real-Time Background-Agnostic Fish Localization in Underwater Videos towards Autonomous Species Monitoring”, describes the complex problem of real-time, automated species identification and counting, and outlines a three-stage framework. (Photo: Tim Briggs)

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    River herring migrating up a river (Photo: Tim Briggs)

  • SPECIAL SEA GRANT ISSUE OF OCEANOGRAPHY

    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.

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  • ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY FOR AQUACULTURE

    Learn how MIT students Santiago Borrego and Unyime Usua are helping to advance technology for aquaculture using machine learning with MIT Sea Grant and A.R.C. Hatchery through a collaborative project with MIT CEE, J-WAFS, Northeastern Institute for Experiential Robotics and the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance.

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    MIT Sea Grant students Santiago Borrego and Unyime Usua hold oyster shells.

  • WELCOMING MIT ASSISTANT PROF. ARISTIDE GUMYUSENGE AS DOHERTY PROFESSOR IN OCEAN UTILIZATION

    MIT Sea Grant welcomes MIT Assistant Professor Aristide Gumyusenge from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) as 2024 Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization. Dr. Gumyusenge was nominated by MIT DMSE Interim Department Head Caroline Ross for his research, “Developing Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Detecting Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Marine Environments”.

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  • ARTIFICIAL REEF DESIGNED BY MIT ENGINEERS TO PROTECT MARINE LIFE + REDUCE STORM DAMAGE

    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.

    MIT NEWS STORYVIEW PNAS NEXUS PUBLICATION

  • MIT SEA GRANT ANNOUNCES FIX CORE RFP PROJECTS

    MIT Sea Grant provides competitive funding opportunities for Massachusetts research scientists who seek to address marine issues in ways that benefit the state and region. Six two-year projects have been recommended for funding, pending final approval by NOAA through the 2024 Core RFP, focusing on aquaculture, fisheries, ocean acidification, and marine debris.

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    Abstract image of a wave design

  • NEW COHORT OF STREAM PROJECTS SUPPORT COASTAL EDUCATION + COMMUNITY SCIENCE

    MIT Sea Grant announces 11 STREAM projects selected for funding. Now in its third year, the STREAM Grant program (Solutions Through Research, Education, and Art in Massachusetts) has awarded a total of 21 grants for projects that engage local communities and partners in new ways, and align with MIT Sea Grant’s coastal and ocean-related goals.

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  • MAPPING BLUE CARBON: NEW REPORT HIGHLIGHTS COASTAL ECOSYSTEM BENEFITS

    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)

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    Eelgrass bed underwater

  • SEA GRANT ANNOUNCES 2024 CLASS OF KNAUSS MARINE POLICY FELLOWS

    Sea Grant has announced 85 finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. MIT Sea Grant-sponsored finalist Marisa Borreggine, a postdoc at Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will bring their background in sea level change to a Knauss appointment in the executive branch of government.

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  • SEA GRANT PROVIDES $3.3M IN SUPPORT OF SEAFOOD INDUSTRY WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT

    NOAA Sea Grant announced the selection of 10 projects through two competitions aimed at bolstering workforce development efforts in fisheries and aquaculture sectors. MIT Sea Grant is partnering with Woods Hole Sea Grant/Barnstable County Cooperative Extension to develop an aquaculture internship program that pulls together recruits from a diversity of communities. (Photo: Aileen Devlin, Virginia Sea Grant)

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  • NMFS-SEA GRANT JOINT FELLOWS ANNOUNCED

    Congrats to the eight recipients of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship!

    MIT Sea Grant-sponsored Population and Ecosystem Dynamics Fellow Max Grezlik (UMass Dartmouth) will work with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, with mentorship from Research Fisheries Biologist Dr. Sean Lucey. Welcome, Max!

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  • ADDRESSING MARINE DEBRIS THROUGH EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

    NOAA Sea Grant has announced $27 million in projects that will address the prevention and removal of debris in marine and Great Lakes environments throughout the U.S.

    MIT Sea Grant, partnering with Stonehill College and the Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research, will be awarded $286K to form a coalition of K-12 educators and students, environmental organizations, communities, and commercial fishermen to address issues of marine debris in eastern Massachusetts together.

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  • WHITEPAPERS OUTLINE CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERN IN MARINE WATERS

    The Outfall Monitoring Science Advisory Panel, including MIT Sea Grant researchers Judith Pederson and Julie Simpson, developed a set of white papers about three types of contaminants of emerging concern:

    – Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
    – Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products
    – Microplastics

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  • DISASTER PREPAREDNESS WITH THE MASHPEE WAMPANOAG TRIBE

    NOAA’s Sea Grant and Disaster Preparedness Programs fund three new projects, including MIT Sea Grant’s work with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe developing a disaster response plan and training program to prepare for a potential oil spill, with specific attention on protecting shellfish aquaculture operations.

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  • ADVANCING AQUACULTURE: MEET THE OYSTAMARAN

    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

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  • DESIGN LAB: DECARBONIZING THE CARGO SHIPPING FLEET

    The International Maritime Organization has set a 50% reduction goal for annual greenhouse gas emissions from ships, including carbon, from 2008 levels by 2050.

    Researchers at the MIT Sea Grant Design Lab developed a decarbonization code to provide rapid assessments of fuel-saving technologies for cargo ships (J. S. Chalfant, L. Bonfiglio, C. Chryssostomidis, sponsor support from Hightide Foundation and Marsoft, Inc.).

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  • A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION IN THE NORTHEAST

    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.

    READ MORETHE PUBLICATION

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