Raffaele Ferrari receives Cody Award in Ocean Sciences
EAPS professor honored for excellence in oceanography.
Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves
Better simulations of internal tides may benefit sonar communications, protect offshore structures, and more.
MIT researchers prove fast microbial evolutionary bursts exist
Study reveals closely related microbes can diversify rapidly via horizontal gene transfer.
Whales dine with their own kind
Mapping whale calls, researchers find the predators feed in species-specific hotspots.
New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detection
Surface waves can trigger powerful sound waves that race through the deep ocean, study suggests.
Green eelgrass, blue carbon
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts.
Study: Ocean source of a greenhouse gas has been underestimated
Cycling of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, is more intense than thought, and emissions are increasing.
Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean
New research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reveals a hidden deep-ocean carbon cycle.
Waves in the deep
New study examines role of acoustic-gravity waves as ocean transport, early warning of tsunamis.
Slow-motion science and the art of capturing marine life
New MIT exhibit features high-speed underwater photography by former aquanaut Grace Young ’14.
Nature’s tiny engineers
Coral organisms use minuscule appendages to control their environment, stirring up water eddies to bring nutrients.
Solving the polar climate conundrum
According to MIT researchers, ocean circulation explains why the Arctic feels the effects of global warming much more than the Antarctic.
Bacteria: A day in the life
MIT study finds ocean bacteria follow predictable patterns of daily activity.
Ocean microbes display a hidden talent: releasing countless tiny lipid-filled sacs
MIT finding could one day lead to new approaches for manufacturing biofuels.
Ocean microbes display remarkable genetic diversity
One species, a few drops of seawater, hundreds of coexisting subpopulations.