Undergraduate students join MIT Sea Grant for hands on summer research
MIT Sea Grant's teaching lab was bustling this summer with more than 10 undergraduate students, and a handful of exceptional high school students all working on projects that varied from mapping eelgrass using drones to building ocean drifters…
Deploying Buoys: MIT Sea Grant summer UROP Noa Yoder
By Bayley Connors, BURECS The AUV Lab of MIT Sea Grant has focused its latest efforts on understanding coastal ocean acidification and Noa Yoder, a rising junior at MIT, is interning with the lab's research engineers, Michael Sacarny and Michael…
MIT Sea Grant Celebrates World Oceans Day
By Bayley Connors, BURECSLocal and visiting families took to the New England Aquarium this past Sunday, June 4th, to celebrate World Oceans Day. The aquarium planned an early celebration amidst efforts to promote the awareness, sustainability,…
MIT Sea Grant Open House Thursday June 8th from 2:00-4:00
Interested in learning more about research, education, and outreach opportunities at MIT Sea Grant? Come check out our new offices at MIT Sea Grant's Open House! Thursday, June 8th, 2017 from 2:00pm-4:00pmAt MIT Sea Grant's new location: 12…
MIT Sea Grant UROP students build an ROV – Alicia Cabrera-Mino and Kyubin Lee
Alicia Cabrera-Mino, a senior at MIT in mechanical engineering, and Kyubin Lee, a sophomore at MIT, applied to intern at the MIT Sea Grant College Program to learn more about ocean engineering. Both students were drawn to MIT Sea Grant's Autonomous…
MIT Sea Grant celebrates World Ocean Day at the New England Aquarium
By Morgan O'HanlonA young girl of 5 or 6 years leans over the controls to a remotely operated underwater vehicle, also known as a ROV. She stares intently at the vehicle floating inside the 100 gallon tank before her and tries to maneuver its…
Sea Grant at the MIT Open House April 23rd
The 2016 MIT Open House will take place Saturday April 23rd from 10:00-2:00. There will be over 350 activities planned to enlighten and inspire¢whether you're a child or an adult, a student or a teacher. There¡s plenty to see and do for everyone!Sea…
Meet MIT Sea Grant Research Engineer Michael Sacarny
Mike spent most of his adult life as a systems and software engineer, working in a variety of industries, including renewable energy, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, automotive test, radioactive waste processing, biomedical devices, and PC…
Welcome to Sea Grant Dr. Tom Consi
MIT Sea Grant is excited to announce our new Research Education Specialist, Tom Consi. Tom isn¡t actually new to Sea Grant, he worked in our MIT Sea Grant AUV lab for over eight years where he started as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1989 working…
Sea Grant celebrates its 50th anniversary
On March 8, Sea Grant will celebrate its 50th anniversary. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The National Sea Grant College Program Act, and today, that program reaches every coastal and Great Lakes state, as well as Puerto Rico and…