Storm Surge Awareness and Hurricane Preparedness Week

May 27 ¤ June 2 is National Hurricane Preparedness Week! Hurricane season officially starts on June 1 of every year. Although this year is predicted to have average or below-average hurricane activity, it¡s still good to be prepared; major…

Students Take On Underwater Engineering Challenge as part of the MIT Sea Grant Program

Cambridge, MA ¤ On May 3rd, 80 high school and middle school students made their way to MIT¡s Zesiger Athletic Center pool to test their engineering prowess at the Sea Perch Institute Challenge 2012 year-end event. At the pool, the students…

Lexington High School Ocean Bowl Team Takes 4th Place in National Contest

Cambridge, MA ¤ MIT Sea Grant is pleased to announce that the winning team from the Blue Lobster Bowl took 4th place in the 15th annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl Finals, held April 19-22, 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland. The team from Lexington…

Degradation of Coastal Waters

MIT Sea Grant funded researcher, Matt Charette, along with Henrieta Dulaiova, has developed a radon/nitrate mapping system for a large scale assessment of submarine groundwater discharge and non-point source pollution to coastal watersBy Nancy…

Volunteers needed for Charles River Clean-up, Sat. April 21, 9-12.

Come help MIT Sea Grant with the Annual Earth Day Charles River Cleanup! MIT Sea Grant is coordinating trash pick-up along the grassy areas and sidewalks on the Cambridge side of the Charles River between the Massachusetts Avenue and Longfellow…

Division of Marine Fisheries announces that the Nauset Estuary is closed to the harvest of all shellfishdue to Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) toxin, known also as red tide.

March 7, 2012Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Marine FisheriesPaul J. Diodati, Director251 Causeway Street, Suite 400, Boston, Massachusetts 02114(617) 626-1520Due to Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) toxin (also known as "Red Tide")…

New Research Funding Awarded

MIT Sea Grant: New Research Awards, February 2012DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTOMATED SEEPAGE METER FOR QUANTIFYING SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE IN THE COASTAL ZONEMatthew Charette, Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionProject Summary: Nutrient-rich,…

Winners of the 15th Annual Blue Lobster Bowl: Lexington Team A!

Please join us in congratulating Lexington High School Team A, and their coach, Sarah Damassa, for taking first place in the 15th annual Blue Lobster Bowl!The Blue Lobster Bowl, Massachusetts' regional marine science quiz bowl, is one of the…

Olesnavage wins 2012 Dean A. Horn Award

The MIT Sea Grant College Program has awarded the 2012 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research to Katy Olesnavage, a graduating senior in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Olesnavage was nominated for her senior…