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…
Hurricane Planning Workshop
MIT Sea Grant and the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency will be hosting a hurricane planning workshop on November 9 & 10, 2015 at the NOAA Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office in Gloucester, MA. This two-day performance-level…
Citizen Science effort Summer on the Marsh showcases regional data
Last weekend kids from up and down the coast of New England attended a virtual summit to share data they collected this summer. The citizen science program, Summer on the Marsh, run by the New England Ocean Science Education Collaborative,…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Preliminary Closure on the harvest of oysters
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Preliminary Closure on the harvest of oysters in Duxbury Bay, Bluefish River, and Back River in the Town of Duxbury; Plymouth Harbor, in the Town of Plymouth; and Kingston Bay in the Town…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries AnnouncesPreliminary Closure on commercial harvest of oysters
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has preliminarily closed Katama Bay in Edgartown, MA to the commercial harvest of oysters.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has confirmed three additional cases of Vibrio parahaeomlyticus…
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas
The Division of Marine Fisheries has determined that bivalve shellfish from Salt Pond in the Town of Eastham no longer contains biotoxins from phytoplankton in excess of established standards. Therefore, they have rescinded the DSP closure for…
