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Antarctic ocean found crucial to atmosphere's health

July 11, 2006

The Asian swamp eel (actually a fish) is pictured here beside a 12-inch ruler. Commonly consumed and native to Southeast Asia, the swamp eel has been found in several freshwater bodies in Hawaii, Florida and Georgia.

Sea Grant warns of dumping seafood

June 19, 2006

Human activity linked to rise in hurricanes

May 31, 2006

At MIT's Morphodynamics Laboratory, research scientist James Buttles adjusts the inflow valve of a sediment-laden, gravity-driven current flowing in an experimental channel. Observing how the sediment is deposited in and around the channel is providing new insights into the structure of oil-rich sediment-filled channels found deep under the sea floor.

Undersea channels studied to aid oil recovery

May 2, 2006

MIT marine biologists Ed DeLong and Penny Chisholm check out an ocean water sample. Researchers in Chisholm's lab have shown that gene-swapping takes place among ocean plankton and resembles the flow of genes known to occur among disease-causing bacteria.

Researchers: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

March 23, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

March 22, 2006

Assistant Professor Vladimir Stojanovic is congratulated on his Doherty Professorship by Alice Gast, vice president for research and associate provost.

Stojanovic named Doherty Professor

March 8, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006

Sheri Simmons uses a pipette to place water samples onto a microscope slide to look at the swimming behavior of magnetotactic bacteria. Her advisor and co-author, Katrina Edwards, is at left.

Bacterium found to have strange magnetic personality

February 17, 2006

This image shows a sample of the data collected by the SeaBed autonomous underwater vehicle as it swam over the Chios shipwreck in July 2005. The 3-D color mesh represents a topographic map of the sea floor, created using data collected by multibeam sonar. The brown strip shows the area captured in digital images, which were used to create the photomosaic of the wreck. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow(...

Deep-sea robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck

February 2, 2006

Researchers at MIT, Northeastern University and the Naval Research Laboratory used their new remote sensor system to measure fish populations on the edge of the continental shelf, south of Long Island, N.Y.

One fish, two fish: New sensor improves fish counts

February 2, 2006

Donald R. F. Harleman

Memorial service for Donald Harleman set for Nov. 5

October 4, 2005

New web site explores local hurricane risk

September 28, 2005

Nominations open for Doherty Professorship

September 28, 2005

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MIT leads water safety outreach

August 19, 2005