Oceanography and ocean engineering

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

Nominations open for Doherty Professorship

September 10, 2008

MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming

September 2, 2008

Jane McNabb, worked at MIT for 47 years

June 12, 2008

Figure shows the likely habitats of vibrio bacteria populations mapped by MIT researchers onto a phylogenetic tree for all strains found in the samples taken from the Atlantic Ocean near Plum Island, Mass. Dot colors indicate the size of the bacteria (the largest attach to zooplankton, next size attaches to large organic particles, then small organic particles, and finally the smallest are free-fl...

MIT scientists fathom ecological niches of ocean microbes

May 22, 2008

Happy anniversary, Prochlorococcus

Researchers holding bash 20 years after microbe's discovery

May 21, 2008

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Listen to an enhanced--but very low frequency--audio version of the underwater
sound of Hurricane Gert (above, in a colorized infrared image). MIT researcher
Nick...

How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

April 9, 2008

Roman Stocker, the Doherty Assistant Professor of Ocean Utilization, holds microfluidics devices.

Marine bacteria's mealtime dash is a swimming success

March 12, 2008

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

Wee creatures are key to Earth's environment

March 3, 2008

MIT Professor Heidi Nepf of civil and environmental engineering is working with scaled physical models of river plants, at right, to understand more precisely how water moves through such plants and their effect on aquatic ecology.

River plants may play major role in health of ocean coastal waters

January 31, 2008

Broken amphoras amid debris on the Aegean seafloor.

Cask from the past

Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA

October 29, 2007

Nominations open for Doherty Professorship

October 24, 2007

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Nominations open for Doherty Professorship

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Jane McNabb, worked at MIT for 47 years

MIT scientists fathom ecological niches of ocean microbes

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