Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Irene is expected to bring a major storm event to Massachusetts this weekend. See links at right for NOAA Advisories, local news, and more. The information on hurricane preparedness below was prepared by MIT Sea Grant's coastal ecologist,…
Summer undergraduate researcher, Michelle Slosberg, develops marine invasive species predictive method
MIT Sea Grant undergraduate researcher, Michelle Slosberg, has developed a geographically referenced risk assessment method to predict sources of marine invasive species in the coastal waters of the northeastern United States and their potential…
Fish Sounds: MIT Sea Grant PI, Rodney Rountree, featured on Cape and Islands NPR station
On August 15, MIT Sea Grant principal investigator, Rodney Rountree, was featured on The Point with Mindy Todd on the Cape and Islands NPR affiliate, WCAI (a service of WGBH). The feature, entitled, Fish Sounds, was described as heading underwater…
MIT Sea Grant mourns colleague Harriet Webster of Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center
PRESS RELEASEContact: Nancy Adams, nadamsx@mit.edu, 617 253-3461Cambridge, MA, May 20 ¤ MIT Sea Grant director, Chrys Chryssostomidis, and his staff mourn longtime collaborator and colleague, Harriet Webster, who died June 23 of complications…
Ocean Engineering Experience 2011
For immediate release: July 6, 2011Contact: Nancy Adams, nadamsx@mit.edu, 617 253-9305OCEAN ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE July 9 ¤ July 16stOEX Public Events, Friday, July 15:Project Demonstration: 1 PM - 3 PM, MIT Sailing PavilionStudent Presentations:…
Ocean Engineering Experience
Teenagers Swap Free Time for ScienceThe MIT Sea Grant Ocean Engineering Experienceby Katrina Phillips, NOAA Sea Grant Knauss FellowJuly 8, 2011 -- It¡s early July, and school is out for the summer ¤ for most students. But for a dedicated group…
Adam Doroski Wins 2011 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research
Cambridge, MA -- MIT Sea Grant announces the winner of the 2011 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research. This year¡s award goes to Adam Doroski, a graduating senior in the MIT Mechanical Engineering Department for his…
Tech Assistance for Lobstermen
MIT Sea Grant announces the launch of a USDA Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's lobster industry. The program consists of a series of free workshops and cash benefits for eligible Massachusetts…
150 fascinating, fun, important, interesting, lifesaving, life-altering, bizarre and bold ways that MIT has made a difference [including MIT Sea Grant’s AUV, Sea Squirt, #111]
"Some were invented at MIT. Others were simply inspired by time spent at MIT. But all of them (well, maybe not #150) have had a profound impact, in one way or another, on society, culture, politics, economics, transportation, health, science,…
Sea Perch Institute 2011
On May 6, MIT Sea Grant College hosted the Sea Perch Institute Challenge at MIT¡s Zesiger Athletic Center pool. Over 300 middle and high school students worked in teams to analyze and remediate a simulated deep-water oil spill resulting from…
