Oceanography and ocean engineering

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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

MIT retiring professor Jerry Milgram (left) with MIT alum Bill Koch at the opening of an exhibit that honors Milgram's many contributions to Ocean Engineering, at the Compton Gallery at MIT.

MIT Museum show celebrates ocean engineer Jerry Milgram

September 19, 2007

MIT research details parasitic battles

Work indicates impact on evolution

September 5, 2007

The dramatic appearance of a red tide algal bloom at Leigh, near Cape Rodney, New Zealand.

Scientists at MIT unraveling the secrets of red tide

August 30, 2007

Testing the scallop dredge in the Irish Sea, off the Isle of Man.

MIT aims for kinder, gentler scallop dredge

July 31, 2007

Professor Ian Hunter (standing), post-doc James Tangorra and colleagues in MIT's Bioinstrumentation Lab are working to create a robotic version of the bluegill sunfish's fin. Such a robotic fin, like the one Tangorra is holding, could improve the maneuverability of autonomous underwater vehicles.

MIT team building robotic fin for submarines

July 30, 2007

School of Engineering awards

June 6, 2007

"Joint High Speed Vessel" created by: LCDR Patrick Bennett, USN, LT William Fuller, USN, LCDR, Dave Kuhn, USN, LCDR Joe Torrez, USN

Ocean engineering highlights novel ship design

May 18, 2007

Image above shows the emergent ocean ecosystem community structure. The phytoplankton community is organized according to relative fitness in the physical, chemical, and predatory environment.

MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes

March 29, 2007

MIT professor Penny Chisholm, left, and principal research scientists Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz have created an ocean model in which the populations of "sown" microbes precisely mimic real-world patterns of the same organisms.

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing