New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detection
Surface waves can trigger powerful sound waves that race through the deep ocean, study suggests.
Surface waves can trigger powerful sound waves that race through the deep ocean, study suggests.
MIT Sea Grant is working with several partners to quantify the carbon storage of eelgrass beds in Massachusetts.
MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen brings high-speed photography to the natural world.
Visiting artist Keith Ellenbogen collaborates with MIT faculty and staff to create a unique underwater photography course.
Themistoklis Sapsis seeks to understand, predict, and optimize complex engineering and environmental systems under extreme uncertainty.
Study finds a whisker’s “slaloming” motion helps seals track and chase prey.
MIT researchers find unintended consequences of an idea to stimulate ocean phytoplankton growth in order to geoengineer a cooler atmosphere.
Study finds some coastal regions may face a risk of unprecedented storm surge in the next century.
New MIT Museum exhibit to explore life and career of influential ship designer and alumnus Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff.
New findings show Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought.
New method may help engineers determine coastal impact of dams and levees.
Study finds many species may die out and others may migrate significantly as ocean acidification intensifies.
A nuclear power plant that will float eight or more miles out to sea promises to be safer, cheaper, and easier to deploy than today’s land-based plants.