
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…

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…

MIT Sea Grant Announces 2023 STREAM Funded Projects
Six new STREAM Grant projects focus on coastal education, renewable energy, and sea level rise
MIT Sea Grant launched a new grants program this past year, open to a diversity of applicants across Massachusetts. STREAM Grants — Solutions…

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…

MIT Sea Grant UROP Arianna Ilvonen wins Best UROP Poster Award
Congratulations to Arianna Ilvonen on winning Best UROP Poster Award at the annual MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition on March 10, 2023!
Arianna (MechE '24) developed and deployed an autonomous, cable-mounted coastal monitoring…

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…

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…

Survey: Share your input with Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel by Nov. 18
The Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel (NEANS Panel, NortheastANS.org) would like to hear from you about your work and involvement with marine invasive species. The Panel, including MIT Sea Grant research scientist Carolina Bastidas, is…

Job Posting: Sustainable Solutions for Climate with MIT Resilient Communities Lab
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P)-Center for Advanced Urbanism-MIT Resilient Communities Lab (RCL), to join a team working on sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation that integrates traditional ecological…

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…