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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 >>…
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Qingmei (May) Wu wins the Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research

Photo: May Wu looks inside of a remotely operated boat with "The Father of Side Scan Sonar" Marty Klein. MIT Sea Grant announces the winner of the 2020 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research. This year’s award goes…
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MIT Team Wins Explorer Prize in the Ocean Observing Prize’s DISCOVER Competition from US DOE and NOAA

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor Fadel Adib and his team from the Signal Kinetics Research Group at the MIT Media Lab spent long hours testing their novel designs in the MIT Sea Grant experimental tanks…
Michelle Kornberg at the MIT Sailing Pavilion dock on the Charles River with a row of sailboats behind
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Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on the Ocean: MIT Sea Grant Undergraduate Researcher Michelle Kornberg

Photo: Tony Pulsone From Boston Harbor to Australia, MIT Sea Grant undergraduate researcher Michelle Kornberg and MIT Mechanical Engineering explore the Ocean Engineering field: “It marries the holistic side of living on planet Earth…
Carolina Bastidas, MIT Sea Grant Research Scientist, speaks to a group of female students in the lab.
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Students from the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education Visit MIT Sea Grant

MIT Sea Grant Research Scientist Carolina Bastidas engages a group of students pursuing science and engineering with her research on oyster rehabilitation. On March 3, 2020, a group of 35 high school students – juniors and seniors pursuing…
An aerial shot of a blue-green Massachusetts Bay and Castle Island with many boats and a couple of tall ships
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November 19, 2019: MIT Sea Grant Core Funded Research Progress Update

Tuesday, November 19, 2019 from 1:00 - 3:30 pm 12 Emily Street (NW98), Cambridge, MA 02139 The streamed video of the session is available to view here, and embedded below. MIT Sea Grant provides competitive funding opportunities through…
A group of students sitting for a presentation with a female speaker in front of a screen displaying a picture of the MIT campus
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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…
A woman and a child from behind about to drop a cardboard model into a large tank of water.
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Empowered Brains at MIT Sea Grant – Explorations in Ocean Engineering

Photographs and EEEeb writeup by Avery Normandin. Ecology, Evolution, and Engineering for Empowered Brains (EEEeb) is sensory-friendly series of educational workshops for Boston-area neurodiverse youth which aims to cultivate skills…
Dixia Fan, PhD, holding two 3D printed penguins, the Guardians of the Intelligent Towing Tank, which he is standing in front of
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Protected: 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…