15 JWAFS 2023 Seed Grant recipients
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J-WAFS Announces 2023 Seed Grant Recipients | Aquaculture Funded Project

Maria Paula Acosta Bello/MIT News | Today, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced its ninth round of seed grants to support innovative research projects at MIT. The grants are designed to fund research efforts…
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Modeling Future Ocean Acidification for Coastal Industries

Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate Bianca Champenois looks at geophysical systems of land, air, and water to help track ocean acidification. MIT SPECTRUM – Bianca Champenois SM '22 looks at a digital map of Massachusetts Bay speckled with…
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Welcoming MIT MechE Assistant Professor Kaitlyn Becker as 2023 Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization

MIT Sea Grant welcomes MIT alumna and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kaitlyn Becker as a 2023 Doherty Professor in Ocean Utilization. Assistant Professor Becker was nominated by Ford Professor of Engineering Evelyn Wang, Department…
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Engineers Devise a Modular System to Produce Efficient, Scalable Aquabots

The system’s simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped. David L. Chandler | MIT News Office — Underwater structures that can change their shapes dynamically, the way fish do, push…
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December 1: MIT Sea Grant FY2024 Core RFP Open House

MIT Sea Grant provides competitive funding opportunities through our Core Request For Proposals (RFP) for Massachusetts research scientists who seek to address marine issues in ways that benefit the Commonwealth. We will hold an Informational…
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MIT Sea Grant Announces First STREAM Funded Projects

  STREAM Grants program kicks off with documentary filmmaking, water quality monitoring, robotics, and microplastics research August 30, 2022 —  This May, MIT Sea Grant launched a new grants program open to a diversity of Massachusetts…
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March 17: MIT Sea Grant Symposium with Funded Researchers and Knauss Fellow

Join MIT Sea Grant for a symposium on Thursday, March 17th from 1-4:30 PM with our FY2020 and FY2021 funded researchers and Knauss Fellow. Please register to receive the symposium agenda and link. Thursday, March 17th 2022 1 - 4:30 PM Virtual…
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MIT IoT Seminar Series: Ocean IoT Focus

This Fall, the MIT IoT Seminar Series will focus on emerging technologies and research in Ocean IoT and their role in scientific exploration, climate change monitoring, underwater bioacoustics, marine robotics, and weather prediction. Some…
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MIT News | Scientists discover slimy microbes that may help keep coral reefs healthy

The bacteria scrub out nitrogen, potentially defending against certain nutrient overloads. Image: Robert Walker >> Read full article via MIT News   MIT News | Researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic…
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WORKSHOP OCT 5, 7, 9: SMART OCEANS 2020

Convergence. Acceleration. Impact. Workshop Details: Session 1: October 5, 2020 (12 - 2:30 p.m. ET) Session 2: October 7, 2020 (12 - 3:30 p.m. ET) Session 3: October 9, 2020 (12 - 1 p.m. ET) >> Conference Website: www.smartoceans2020.org >>…