MIT Sea Grant provides competitive funding opportunities for Massachusetts university-based research scientists who seek to address marine issues in ways that benefit the Commonwealth. The research projects listed below are active and ongoing. Funding is provided by MIT Sea Grant through an annual, competitive RFP.
FY2019 Projects
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A New Paradigm for Pervasive and Persistent Monitoring of Ocean Acidity Using a Distributed System of Autonomous Mobile Robots
Dick Yue · 02/2019 – 01/2021Project number: 2019-R/RCM-62 -
Quantifying Acidification Levels in the US North East Coast via Machine Learning Tools
Themistoklis Sapsis · 2/2019 – 1/2021Project number: 2019-R/RCM-61 -
AQUA-MIT: Novel Computational Capability for Aquaculture Cage and Mooring System Design in Severe Seas
Yuming Liu· 2/2019 – 1/2021Project number: 2019-R/RCM-60 -
Project Development : Multi-fidelity Modeling for non-linear and multi-valued correlations
Chrys Chryssostomidis · 2/2019 – 1/2021Project number: 2019-R/RC-150 -
Bayesian Intelligent Ocean Modeling and Acidification Prediction Systems
Pierre Lermusiaux · 2/2019 – 1/2021Project number: 2019-R/RC-149
FY2018 Projects
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Magnetic Induction (MI) Wireless Underwater Data Communications: Bottom-to-Surface Ocean Temperature Monitoring
Chathan Cooke · 2/2018 – 1/2022Project number: 2018-R/RCM-52 -
Quantifying Coastal Ocean Acidification Impacts on Estuarine Nitrogen Removal
Robinson Fulweiler · 2/2018 – 1/2020Project number: 2018-R/RC-148 -
Measuring Acid/Base Chemistry in the Extrapallial Fluids of New England’s Commercially Important Mollusks to Explore their Differential Responses to Ocean Acidification.
Justin Ries · 2/2018 – 1/2022Project number: 2018-R/RCM-53 -
Making Sense of the Variability of Coastal Ocean Acidification: Potential Long-Term Impacts on the Oyster Aquaculture Industry
Robert Chen · 2/2018 – 1/2022Project number: 2018-R/RC-146
FY2017 Projects
Developing a Miniaturized In-situ Sensor Technology for Simultaneous Measurements of Seawater Dissolved Inorganic Carbon and pCO2
Zhaohui Aleck Wang · 2/2017 – 1/2019
Project number: 2017-R/RCM-51
Sensors for Measuring Carbon Dioxide, Bicarbonate, and pH in the Ocean
Timothy M. Swager · 2/2017 – 1/2019
Project number: 2017-R/RCM-50
Towards a Cost-Effective Monitoring System of Coastal Ocean Acidification in the US North East
Themistoklis Sapsis · 2/2017 – 1/2019
Project number: 2017-R/RCM-49
FY2016 Projects
Multiple stressors on American Lobster, Homarus americanus: synergistic effects of ocean acidification, temperature increase, and epizootic shell disease
Robyn Hannigan · 2/2016 – 1/2018
Project number: 2016-R/RCM-45
Investigation of the Effects of Ocean Acidification and Warming on the Calcification Rate & Shell Properties of Commercially Important Early Stage New England Mollusks
Justin Ries · 2/2016 – 1/2018
Project number: 2016-R/RCM-44
Quantification of the contribution of wastewater effluent to coastal ocean acidification
https://seagrant.mit.edu/author/scott_doney/· 2/2016 – 8/2018
Project number: 2016-R/RC-143
