
A Carbon Tax for Shipping: Theory and (Possible) Practice
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019 from 1:30-2:30 pm
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A tax on carbon emissions is widely perceived (by economists) as the most efficient way to reduce carbon…

Hosting students from Oslo, Norway, at the MIT Sea Grant Design Lab for reduced carbon shipping emissions
The MIT Sea Grant Design Lab worked with Marsoft, an independent advisory group focusing on the maritime industry, to host students and faculty from Norway on October 16th. The students from the Oslo Handelsgymnasium – one of the largest…

Machine Learning Reduces Uncertainties in Ocean Forecasts
Using a new machine learning (ML) framework that fuses multi-fidelity data in space and time, researchers at MIT Sea Grant have been able to forecast temperature and salinity fields in Massachusetts Bay and beyond. This ML approach combines…

MIT Sea Grant Fluid Dynamics Expert Dixia Fan (PhD '19) Wins De Florez Award
The Robotic Intelligent Towing Tank for Self-Learning Complex Fluid-Structure Dynamics
After six years of working with MIT Sea Grant Director Professor Michael Triantafyllou–culminating in a novel intelligent towing tank design – Dixia…