RESCUES Guide Book Maine and New Hampshire: Helping to make fishing communities safer

This manual contains step-by-step guidance that will help prepare individuals, groups and entire communities for crises affecting members of the commercial fishing industry.RESCUES stands for ‰Responding to Emergencies at Sea and to Communities…

Now accepting applications for 2019 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

Applications Due by February 23rd 2018 to MIT Sea Grant.The 2019 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship competition is now open. The Federal Funding Opportunity announcement is attached and instructions…

Funding Opportunity: Small Business Innovation Research grants for aquaculture

The NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project portal is now open and seeking proposals from small businesses. Sea Grant and the Aquaculture Program Office have four aquaculture projects included in this year¡s opportunities, all…

OPEN FORUM AND DISCUSSION: Offshore Aquaculture & Fisheries, Nov 30 at 11:30

OPEN FORUM AND DISCUSSION: Offshore Aquaculture and FisheriesThursday, November 3011:30 AM to 2:00 PMNW98-152 MIT Sea Grant12 Emily Street, Cambridge, MA 02139You are invited to an open discussion on the opportunities for the Massachusetts and…

2019 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship now accepting applications

Applications are due to MIT Sea Grant by 5:00 pm on January 26th, 2018Since 1999, Sea Grant and NMFS have partnered to train students through this joint fellowship program in two specialized areas: population and ecosystem dynamics as well as…

MIT Sea Grant Ocean Acidification Seminar Tuesday November 28th at 1:00

**Please note the seminar will now start at 1:00**Please join us Tuesday November 28th at MIT Sea Grant for presentations by six MIT Sea Grant funded researchers on their ocean acidification projects.Tuesday November 28th1:00-4:00NW98-152 MIT…

2018 IAP: New England Coastal Ecology

2.981 New England Coastal Ecology3 credits (1/0/2, P/F/D)Lecture: T-Th 10:30 ¤ 12:00Field Trip (mandatory): Friday Jan. 26, 9am-5pmCombining lectures and visits to field and research centers, participants will be introduced to marine communities…

IAP 2018: Sensing for Resilience and Sustainability

This new IAP subject will teach how to design and build sensor systems for environmental monitoring. A resilient community depends on knowledge of the environmental stressors it must cope with (e.g. storms, floods); that data is obtained from…

MIT Sea Grant funds aquaculture technology project

MIT Sea Grant is excited to announce the funding an aquaculture technology development project, "Real-time detection of Vibrio for oyster aquaculture," one of the 32 research grants NOAA has announced today, totaling $9.3 million for projects…

A Small Ocean Acidification Sensor Could Serve a Large Need

By Bayley Connors, BURECS How do you improve an advanced sensor already holding the potential to affect the narrative of climate change? For starters, shrink it. Dr. Aleck Wang, a MIT Sea Grant funded scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic…