MIT Sea Grant led team advances to next phase of the Wave Energy Prize Contest

Team IOwec, led by MIT Sea Grant's Assistant Director of Research Dr. Stefano Brizzolara, will advance to the next level in the highly competitive Wave Energy Prize Contest put on by the U. S. Department of Energy.The team designed an Inertial…

Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas

As of sunrise on Wednesday July 15, 2015, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is closing Salt Pond in the town of Eastham, MA to all shellfishing due to a phytoplankton bloom of Dinophsis sp. which is known to produce okadiaic acid the…

Eastern Region Spring Quarterly now available

NOAA's Eastern Region Quarterly Climate Impacts and Outlook is available now.

Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Announces Recent Changes in Shellfish Closure Areas

Per the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, as of sunrise on Thursday June 11, 2015 they are lifting the PSP closure in the Nauset system, specifically growing areas OC:2 through OC:6,for all shellfish species except moon snails. If…

Chelsea, MA Has New Climate Adaptation Guidance

The city of Chelsea, Massachusetts¡ Planning Board has new climate change adaptation guidance thanks to a group of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and MIT Sea Grant. MIT Sea Grant sponsored and mentored the WPI students…

Finding the local perspective on ocean acidification

Ocean acidification is not just a buzzword for the men and women who make their living harvesting shellfish off the coast of New England. The pH of coastal water directly affects the health of shellfish and that has a real and immediate impact…

MIT Sea Grant College Program pulls off the 18th Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT!

MIT Sea Grant College Program organized and hosted the 18th Annual Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT on February 28, 2015. This year's tournament included 24 teams from 14 Massachusetts high schools and was free and open to the public. Teams of students…

How can California¡s fisheries be readiedŒ for climate change?

Madeleine Hall-Arber, MIT Sea Grant¡s anthropologist serves on the Science Advisory Team (SAT) for the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC). The mission of the OPC is to ensure that California maintains healthy, resilient, and productive…

MIT Sea Grant 2016 Research Funding Opportunity: Ocean Acidification

The next MIT Sea Grant research funding opportunity will be announced in early January. Among the focus areas identified in the MIT Sea Grant Strategic Plan, assessing impacts to coastal waters and habitats are of importance for managing healthy…