Oceanography and ocean engineering

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

Roman Stocker holds the small microbial ecosystem he developed.

A plankton-eat-plankton world

Tiny ecosystem may shed light on key ocean microbes and their role in influencing climate

December 15, 2008

Mechanical Engineering Professor Anette Hosoi and graduate student Amos Winter developed a robo-clam that could lead to "smart" anchoring technologies. Outside the testing device they hold clamshells of some of the clams they tested.

Dig this: RoboClam

Device could lead to 'smart' anchors, more

November 25, 2008

Sea Grant symposium to focus on endangered whales Oct. 15-16

October 8, 2008

Schematic shows Odyssey IV, a small, inexpensive, MIT-designed robotic submarine that can hover in place like a helicopter.

MIT's new underwater robot can hover in place

Odyssey IV could be a boon for oil explorers, archaeologists and more

September 25, 2008

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