The Cambridge Science Festival Guide is live! We’ll be hosting activities on two dates:

Sea Life and Sea Perch – Come and Tour MIT Sea Grant!
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2-5pm
MIT Sea Grant/12 Emily St, Cambridge, MA

DIY Underwater Robots for Fun and Climate Science
Sunday, Oct. 1, 12-4pm
MIT Open Space/292 Main St, Cambridge, MA

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)

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!

Emma Rutherford (MIT MechE+ Physics ’23) and Arianna Ilvonen (MechE ’24) win the 2023 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research for their work developing an underwater housing for a high-speed camera, and an autonomous cable-mounted robot.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced 10 new projects supporting research tackling challenges related to water and food for human use, including an aquaculture initiative with MIT Sea Grant. The team, led by MIT Sea Grant Assistant Director Robert Vincent, MIT CEE Associate Professor Otto Cordero, and MIT Sea Grant Director Professor Michael Triantafyllou, aims to control harmful bacteria blooms in aquaculture production.

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.

The MIT Arcturus Team traveled to Sarasota, FL for RoboBoat, an international competition in which teams build and program autonomous boats to navigate challenges. This year, 23 teams competed from nine countries. The MIT team won the Technology Award and 1st Place for Documentation, Video, and Website!

Illustration by Lindsay Bolino (MIT BioE ’23)

NOAA Sea Grant announces investments through two complementary initiatives aimed at improving resilience with coastal communities. MIT Sea Grant will build a collaborative network between academic, community and policy groups across MA to help integrate traditional ecological knowledge and STEAM.

MIT Sea Grant and Woods Hole Sea Grant jointly announce two fellows with new Massachusetts Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship — Nicole Vandale, who will be starting at Northeastern University this fall, and Sarah Guitart, who will be starting at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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

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.).

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.

MIT Sea Grant sends seasonal newsletters, along with updates and opportunities for Massachusetts communities and stakeholders.

Photo by MIT Sea Grant Education Administrator Dr. Andrew Bennett, with students in MechE class 2.017