Welcome to Sea Grant Dr. Tom Consi
MIT Sea Grant is excited to announce our new Research Education Specialist, Tom Consi. Tom isn¡t actually new to Sea Grant, he worked in our MIT Sea Grant AUV lab for over eight years where he started as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in 1989 working…
Town of Gloucester comes together to launch a guidebook for fishing communities dealing with crisis
The new guide for fishing communities dealing with crises was presented publicly for the first time at the Gloucester Coast Guard Station at an event hosted by Fishing Partnership Support Services and Massachusetts Fishermen¡s Partnership.The…
Helping Wellfleet Harbor Shellfish Industry Plan for Climate Change
MIT Sea Grant's web developer, Ben Bray, and Social and Environmental Research Institute Research Fellow, Seth Tuler, P.h.D, created a website, Planning for Climate Change Impacts on Shellfish in Wellfleet Harbor, to showcase findings about…
Event on March 24th 2:00PM to Launch RESCUES: Responding to Emergencies at Sea and to Communities Under Extreme Stress
March 21, 2016 ¢ GLOUCESTER, Mass. ¢ The following was released by Fishing Partnership Support Services:Two organizations serving commercial fishermen in Massachusetts will hold an event in Gloucester this week to introduce a comprehensive…
MIT Sea Grant is making sure fishing communities are heard
MIT Sea Grant is celebrating Sea Grant¡s 50th Anniversary with a look back at the work of our anthropologist Madeleine Hall-Arber. Madeleine started with MIT Sea Grant in 1976 part time while working on her PhD in anthropology at Brandeis.…
2016 Blue Lobster Bowl
MIT Sea Grant College Program, Woods Hole Sea Grant and The National Ocean Science Bowl sponsored the 19th Annual Blue Lobster Bowl on March 5th, 2016. MIT Sea Grant and People Making a Difference (PMD) organized this year's tournament which…
New Digital Coast Fellowship Opportunity
The NOAA Office for Coastal Management is recruiting candidates for three Digital Coast Fellowship opportunities in 2016. This program is modeled after the Coastal Management fellowship program and has a similar mission: to provide on-the-job…
The Charles River Alliance of Boaters and MIT Sea Grant Chart the Charles River
MIT Sea Grant is using low cost, commercially available, fish finding equipment mounted on both autonomous surface vehicles and volunteer driven boats to chart parts of the Charles River that haven't been mapped for decades. Sediment deposition…
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Leases Downtown Space
New Bedford, MA ¢ The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center is pleased to announce its plans to lease space at 38 Bethel Street beginning on April 1st of this year. Located in the heart of New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, the 3000…
MIT Sea Grant’s summer UROP openings
The effects of ocean acidification and warming on the calcification of New England mollusksAtmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (pCO2) increases since the Industrial Revolution has caused the acidity of surface seawater to decrease by…
