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Eight MIT students accept 2015 Fulbright grants

Grantees will spend the 2015-2016 academic year abroad, conducting research or academic studies.

May 6, 2015

Satellite image of the South China Sea with colors added to indicate the calculated vertical displacement of ocean layers near 200 meters deep, based on simulated model data and calculations run by Harper Simmons at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and depicted by a graphics team at the University of Washington. Orange indicates upward movement, and blue indicates downward movement.

Researchers unravel secrets of hidden waves

Region of world’s strongest “internal waves” is analyzed in detail; work could help refine climate models.

May 6, 2015

Here the 2015 maximum is compared to the 1979 to 2014 average maximum (shown in yellow). A distance indicator shows the difference between the two in the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan.

Closing the arctic data gap

Ice-tethered devices are helping researchers collect more data on the Arctic Ocean.

March 26, 2015

Individual cows can produce up to 500 liters of methane a day; the species accounts for about one-third of total methane emissions. The structures shown represent the structure of methane.

New detector sniffs out origins of methane

Instrument identifies methane’s origins in mines, deep-sea vents, and cows.

March 5, 2015

Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean

New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.

February 17, 2015

Software that knows the risks

Planning algorithms evaluate probability of success, suggest low-risk alternatives.

January 16, 2015

Improving media coverage of climate science

New web-based Climate Feedback application provides a method for scientists and journalists to improve the accuracy of climate science reporting.

December 2, 2014

Theresa Oehmke studies the ecosystem of a bog during an ecology class run by Harold Hemond, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering

Amphibious achiever

CEE senior Theresa Oehmke pursues her interest in interactions between land and water.

November 26, 2014

Marine diatoms, a common type of phytoplankton.

Broadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography

With an infusion of funds from the Simons Foundation, a collaboration between MIT researchers and colleagues will break new ground in the study of marine microbes.

August 18, 2014

Four views of box on a bookshelf, with a printed camouflage pattern wrapped around it. Note how, from some perspectives, the spine of a book on the shelf appears to fork.

Custom camouflage

New algorithms produce patterns that could hide eyesores in public places.

May 21, 2014

Terahertz imaging on the cheap

New theory could reduce number of sensors required for high-resolution imaging systems.

May 5, 2014

MIT professor of geophysics Daniel Rothman stands next to part of the Xiakou formation in China. His right hand rests on the layer that marks the time of the end-Permian mass extinction event. Samples from this formation provided evidence for large amounts of nickel that were spewed from volcanic activity at this time, 252 million years ago.

Ancient whodunit may be solved: The microbes did it!

Methane-producing microbes may be responsible for the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history.

March 31, 2014

Nine MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships

MIT researchers specializing in neuroscience, chemistry, mathematics, and ocean sciences are among 126 selected.

February 18, 2014

Surprisingly, internal waves can sometimes be seen clearly in satellite imagery (like in the above image of the Luzon Strait). This is because the internal waves create alternating rough and smooth regions of the ocean that align with the crest of the internal wave. Sunlight reflects the smooth sections, appearing as white arcs, while the rough sections stay dark.

The ocean’s hidden waves show their power

Large-scale tests in the lab and the South China Sea reveal the origins of underwater waves that can tower hundreds of feet.

January 8, 2014

Boyle awarded Urey Medal

Edward Boyle of EAPS has been awarded the 2014 Urey Medal from the European Association of Geochemistry.

January 7, 2014

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