Sea Grant celebrates its 50th anniversary
On March 8, Sea Grant will celebrate its 50th anniversary. In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The National Sea Grant College Program Act, and today, that program reaches every coastal and Great Lakes state, as well as Puerto Rico and…
MIT Sea Grant announces three newly funded projects studying the impacts of ocean acidification
MIT Sea Grant has selected three research projects for funding from our annual request for proposals. The projects focus on understanding the impacts of ocean acidification and will collectively receive approximately $600 thousand in federal…
MIT Sea Grant coastal ecologist Judy Pederson recognized for her support of student at the International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions
MIT Sea Grant coastal ecologist Judy Pederson was recognized along with her colleague James Carlton from Williams College were recognized at the biannual International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions for their work supporting students. The…
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,…
Green Eelgrass, Blue Carbon
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to conduct a study to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts. By understanding the role that eelgrass ecosystems play in preparing for and mitigating the effects of climate…
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…
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…
