MIT Sea Grant

Meet the Oystamaran

Working directly with oyster farmers, MIT students are developing a robot that can flip heavy, floating bags of oysters, helping the shellfish to grow and stay healthy.

December 8, 2021

Innovations in water accessibility

Mechanical engineering senior Flora Klise is pursing her passion for water research and preparing to launch a career in water innovation.

May 5, 2021

A photo collage including a masked employee examining fish, containers of haddock chowder, and the chowder label

More than a meal

MIT Sea Grant facilitates Saving a Community Fishery, Feeding a Population Covid-19 rapid-response project.

October 19, 2020

Dixia Fan stands in front of the ITT holding some of the structures towed in the tank to study VIVs, which are important for engineering offshore ocean structures like marine drilling risers that connect underwater oil wells to the surface.

Intelligent Towing Tank propels human-robot-computer research

A novel experimental facility integrates automation and active learning, illuminating a path to accelerated scientific discovery.

December 9, 2019

Valerie Muldoon (left), a third-year mechanical engineering student, and biological engineering student Jenna Melanson explore a coastal ecosystem during a field trip to Odiorne Point State Park in New Hampshire.

Exploring New England's coastal ecosystems in the dead of winter

Independent Activities Period class explores the role coastal ecosystems play in protecting the environment and how climate change has affected them.

December 27, 2018

Captain Dean Horn was the director of MIT Sea Grant from 1976 to 1982.

Dean Alden Horn, former director of MIT Sea Grant College Program, dies at 95

Retired U.S. Navy captain made many contributions to Arctic research and undergraduate marine education.

August 5, 2016

At the edge of an eelgrass bed, rocky sandy sediments appear in the foreground. Organic buildup of sediments under the vegetation can also be seen.

Green eelgrass, blue carbon

MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts.

February 29, 2016

MIT Sea Grant students help develop climate-change plan for Chelsea

July 6, 2015

Nominations open for Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

Deadline for submissions is Nov. 29.

November 1, 2012

Radon/nitrate mapping system used by Matt Charette and Henrieta Dulaiova in their research.

Using new technology to measure nitrogen in coastal surface waters

MIT Sea Grant-funded researcher, Matt Charette, is addressing the degradation of coastal waters in New England.

April 3, 2012

Illustration of pathways around a bunch of islands

Sometimes the quickest path is not a straight line

New methods and software developed at MIT can predict optimal paths for automated underwater vehicles.

March 8, 2012

Dean A. Horn Award winner, Katy Olesnavage, and Stelios Ioannou from The Cyprus Institute on board data acquisition flight along the Cyprus coast.

Olesnavage wins 2012 Dean A. Horn Award

Undergraduate lays the groundwork for detection of submarine groundwater discharge in Cyprus.

February 3, 2012

Blue Lobster Bowl 2011 champions from Lexington High School.

MIT Sea Grant to host 15th annual Blue Lobster Bowl Feb. 4

One hundred twenty high school students to convene at MIT for the regional competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl

January 12, 2012

Based on simulations, the researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that can combine multiple modules as shown above. Here, three modules are mounted on a base of silicon rubber. The overall unit bends freely, so it can conform and adhere tightly to a curved surface such as the outside of a pipe. Despite their proximity, the three modules operate independently with no interference.

Helping robots hold on

MIT researchers design a ‘controllable adhesion system’ for underwater robots.

November 10, 2011

'Lateral lines' in fish contain hundreds of tiny pressure and velocity sensors that enable them to navigate through currents and eddies as efficiently as possible. To mimic that ability, MIT researchers have developed inexpensive, sensitive MEMS-based pressure sensors and mounted them on a small experimental vessel in a pattern that replicates the distribution of the lateral lines.

Going with the flow

Biomimetic pressure sensors help guide oceangoing vessels.

November 9, 2011

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