Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

Funding Opportunity: Small Business Innovation Research grants for aquaculture

The NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project portal is now open and seeking proposals from small businesses. Sea Grant and the Aquaculture Program Office have four aquaculture projects included in this year¡s opportunities, all…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

2019 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship now accepting applications

Applications are due to MIT Sea Grant by 5:00 pm on January 26th, 2018Since 1999, Sea Grant and NMFS have partnered to train students through this joint fellowship program in two specialized areas: population and ecosystem dynamics as well as…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

IAP 2018: Sensing for Resilience and Sustainability

This new IAP subject will teach how to design and build sensor systems for environmental monitoring. A resilient community depends on knowledge of the environmental stressors it must cope with (e.g. storms, floods); that data is obtained from…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

2018 IAP: New England Coastal Ecology

2.981 New England Coastal Ecology3 credits (1/0/2, P/F/D)Lecture: T-Th 10:30 ¤ 12:00Field Trip (mandatory): Friday Jan. 26, 9am-5pmCombining lectures and visits to field and research centers, participants will be introduced to marine communities…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

MIT Sea Grant Ocean Acidification Seminar Tuesday November 28th at 1:00

**Please note the seminar will now start at 1:00**Please join us Tuesday November 28th at MIT Sea Grant for presentations by six MIT Sea Grant funded researchers on their ocean acidification projects.Tuesday November 28th1:00-4:00NW98-152 MIT…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

MIT Sea Grant funds aquaculture technology project

MIT Sea Grant is excited to announce the funding an aquaculture technology development project, "Real-time detection of Vibrio for oyster aquaculture," one of the 32 research grants NOAA has announced today, totaling $9.3 million for projects…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

A Small Ocean Acidification Sensor Could Serve a Large Need

By Bayley Connors, BURECS How do you improve an advanced sensor already holding the potential to affect the narrative of climate change? For starters, shrink it. Dr. Aleck Wang, a MIT Sea Grant funded scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed
,

Undergraduate students join MIT Sea Grant for hands on summer research

MIT Sea Grant's teaching lab was bustling this summer with more than 10 undergraduate students, and a handful of exceptional high school students all working on projects that varied from mapping eelgrass using drones to building ocean drifters…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

A Bridge between the Sky and Sea: MIT Sea Grant/Space Grant student Matt Mullin

By Bayley Connors, BURECS Matt Mullin, a rising senior at American University, spent his summer conducting coastal erosion research with drone technology. His project, funded by the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium and taking place at MIT…
Four male students stand on the dock at the MIT Sailing Pavilion with a surface vehicle resembling a miniature boat that they developed

A Step Towards Autonomy: MIT Sea Grant summer UROP Jocelyn Lorrey

By Bayley Connors, BURECS SeaPerch, a remotely operated underwater vehicle, has been used in STEM from classrooms around the world. MIT Sea Grant has trained educators at various levels to construct the underwater robot out of widely available…