
Four Students Win 2025 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research
MIT Sea Grant is happy to announce the winners of the 2025 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research. For the first time, MIT Sea Grant has selected four MIT students to receive the award: Thao Do (Mechanical Engineering…

Special Sea Grant Issue of Oceanography

Artificial Reef Designed by MIT Engineers to Protect Marine Life, Reduce Storm Damage
The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate more than 95 percent of incoming wave energy using a small fraction of the material normally needed.
Jennifer Chu (MIT News) | March 26, 2024
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Mapping Blue Carbon: New Report Highlights Coastal Ecosystem Benefits
>>EPA Report: “Blue Carbon Reservoirs from Maine to Long Island NY”
Healthy coastal habitats are not only important for Massachusetts’ seafood industry and broader Blue Economy, but also play a critical role in a less visible…

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…

New Paper Explores Eelgrass Carbon Storage and Wave Intensity in Nahant
A paper published in Science of the Total Environment shows how carbon rates in a Nahant seagrass meadow correlate with wave intensity
A team of researchers from the Environmental Protection Agency, Boston University, MIT, and others including…

New Whitepapers Outline Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Marine Waters
Recommendations of the Outfall Monitoring Science Advisory Panel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Region 1) and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
The Outfall Monitoring Science Advisory Panel (OMSAP),…

Gaining a Clearer Understanding of Ocean Acidification in the Northeast

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
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MIT News | Researchers at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic…

MIT Sea Grant Coastal Ecologist and researchers from BU, US EPA, CZM, ICTA – UAB publish eelgrass article in Estuaries and Coasts
MIT Sea Grant Coastal Ecologist Dr. Juliet Simpson worked with researchers from Boston University, US EPA, CZM, and the Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA - UAB) in Spain, to publish a recent article in the Journal of the…