Oceanography and ocean engineering

Nominations being accepted for undergraduate marine research award

MIT Sea Grant College Program seeks candidates for 2010 Dean A. Horn Award

May 7, 2010

Weather in a Tank

A curriculum built around a rotating-tank experiment could improve weather and climate education

March 17, 2010

2010 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization recipient Janelle Thompson, center, with Vice President for Research and Associate Provost Claude Canizares, left, and MIT Sea Grant College Program Director Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis.

CEE’s Janelle Thompson chosen for Doherty Professorship

March 16, 2010

Hurricanes’ effects on ocean temperature revisited

Mixing of ocean layers by tropical cyclones may have less effect on climate than previously thought, new research reveals.

March 4, 2010

Daily, global image of phytoplankton diversity from a high resolution ocean and ecosystem model for Oct. 19, 1999. Colors represent the number of types of phytoplankton.

Ecological balancing act

Phytoplankton diversity depends on balance between competition and the ocean’s physical dynamics, new research suggests

March 3, 2010

Melville scholar Wyn Kelley, with a model of the 19th century American whaleship, the Charles W. Morgan, one of 40 full-hull models in MIT’s Hart Nautical Gallery.

Travels With Melville: Wyn Kelley's excellent adventure

Melville scholarship takes Kelley to Tahiti, the Galapagos, China, and the Middle East

November 25, 2009

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering John J. Leonard.

Leonard named new director of Ford-MIT Alliance

November 10, 2009

A satellite image of internal waves (with a wavelength of about 2 kilometers), which are generated by flow from the the Atlantic ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, at the east of Gibraltar and Ceuta.

Hidden waves pack a big punch

Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky

September 18, 2009

Professor Kamal Youcef-Toumi holds two robotic fishes he designed with recent PhD student Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado. The sleek robots can more easily maneuver into areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't go.

Fish and chips

New robots mimic fish's swimming and could explore areas where traditional underwater autonomous vehicles can't currently go.

August 24, 2009

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rafael Bras, currently on leave from MIT serving as Dean of Engineering at University of California at Irvine, gave the Killian lecture Monday to a packed house.

Bras eyes 'intertwined dance' of land, water, plants

Professor returns to MIT to give annual Killian Award lecture

March 31, 2009

Purnima Ratilal and Nicholas Makris on the bow of a ship.

Team observes genesis of fish shoals

Observations of herring apply to other animals; could impact conservation

March 26, 2009

Former Professor Mollo-Christensen, concentration camp survivor, 86

February 25, 2009

Lermusiaux chosen for Doherty Professorship

February 19, 2009

Professor of Anthropology and author of "Alien Ocean" Stefan Helmreich by a map showing areas where the microbes his subjects study proliferate.

Aliens at sea

Anthropologist Helmreich studies researchers studying ocean microbes

February 5, 2009

Schematic of an oscillating water column. Waves enter through a subsurface opening into the chamber with air trapped above. The wave action causes the captured water column to move up and down, pushing the trapped air into an electricity-generating turbine. The turbine turns continuously, despite the changing direction of the air stream as the waves come in and out.

Catch the wave

Researchers eye clean energy possibilities along Portuguese coast

December 17, 2008

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