Brown Bag Seminar by Changsheng Chen, FVCOM: Development, Improvement, and Applications
Please join us for a lunch time seminar about FVCOM, a Finite-Volume Community Ocean Model. A demonstration will be given for updated existing modules and new modules that will be released in the next version of FVCOM. Monday, February 29th,…
A new computational method to predict rare events
MIT Sea Grant postdoc Hessam Babaee and co-author T.P. Sapsis from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT published new research in Proceeding of the Royal Society A on using computational methods to predict rare events.A broad range…
Fishing Heritage Center lands Cultural Heritage Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center is excited to announce their receipt of a $12,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Cultural Heritage Grant. The grant will support a project to digitize the cultural heritage of New Bedford¡s…
Meet 2015 MIT Sea Grant Knauss Fellow Ben Carr
Benjamin Carr was a 2015 MIT Sea Grant Knauss Fellow placed in Washington DC with the Council of NOAA Fellows. A native of Stafford, New York, Ben will receive his Ph.D. in Marine Biology from Boston University in 2016. He received his Master¡s…
Stable Isotope Ecology IAP course open for registration
Ever wonder how energy moves through a system or how food webs aremodeled? Well, now¡s your chance!2016 IAP Course 2.S972Introduction to Stable Isotope EcologyMonday and Wednesday 1-3pmJanuary 4 ¤ 20, 2016This course will provide an overview…
Meet 2015 MIT Sea Grant Knauss Fellow Casey Diederich
Casey Diederich is a 2015 MIT Sea Grant Knauss Fellow placed in Washington DC at the NOAA¡s Office of International Affairs. He is finishing the last few months of this fellowship and we asked him to take a moment to reflect on the experience.A…
New England Coastal Ecology IAP course open for registration
IAP Course 2.981New England Coastal EcologyWant to learn more about the ocean? Want to visit the beach in January? Come join us as we study the ecology of the New England coast, visit salt marshes and rocky shores and learn about the plants…
Nominations are open for the 2016 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization
Nominations are open for the 2016 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. All non-tenured MIT faculty members from any Institute department are eligible. Endowed by the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation, the two-year Chair…
Hayoon Chung is the 2015 Dean Horn Award winner
Congratulations to Hayoon Chung the 2015 Dean Horn Award winner! Hayoon was selected for her research on how oil dispersants effect the speed at which oil droplets disperse.Understanding the potential effects of mitigation strategies for cleaning…
MIT Sea Grant introduces fishermen from Ghana to the New Bedford fishing community
MIT Sea Grant anthropologist, Madeleine Hall-Arber, who has been working with fishing communities for over 25 years, helped coordinate a waterfront tour of New Bedford for members of the Ghana Industrial Trawlers Association. The association…
