Our Spring Newsletter is out now, featuring funded research, student highlights + more! >> View the Spring Newsletter here: conta.cc/4dkJJQb >> Sign up to receive MIT Sea Grant newsletters at: seagrant.mit.edu/newsletter/

Two days left to nominate a student for the Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research (May 9 deadline). Students are encouraged to ask their faculty supervisors for nominations! Learn more: seagrant.mit.edu/dean-horn-awar…

Congrats to all 2024 awardees of the MIT MechE de Florez Award Competition, including MIT Sea Grant MIT UROP students Reyna Ayala (Drag Forces on Plastic Bag Marine Debris) and Thao Do, Ansel Garcia-Langley + Jessica Lam (Deep Sea Sediment Sampler). web.mit.edu/deflorez/

Congrats to the 11 MIT Fulbright fellows, including MIT Sea Grant MIT UROP Maaya Prasad! Maaya’s fellowship will take her to Mauritius, where she'll continue her master’s research and work with local researchers to implement a microplastic survey system: news.mit.edu/2024/mit-affil…

Saturday was World Fish Migration Day #WFMD2024! The #GulfofMaine is home to several species of "sea run fish" that spend a portion of their lives in freshwater and a portion of their lives in the ocean. Read more Sea Grant's work along migration routes: storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/37…

#SeaGrant aims to secure a #sustainable future by giving #communities the information to ensure our #BlueEconomy will thrive for generations. Read about our #environmental literacy & #workforce development efforts in our Oceanography Society special issue: bit.ly/SG-Oceanography

Congrats to all MIT graduates! Here are some of the grads who made a big splash at MIT Sea Grant + on MIT's autonomous robotics team Arcturus, including Fiona Gillespie MIT EECS, Annemarie Dapoz + Maaya Prasad MIT MechE, who each graduated with their master's. 📷Drew Bennett

MIT alum Audrey Chen talks to MIT News about her career, from an internship at NASA when she was still in high school, to running MIT’s autonomous boat team Arcturus at MIT Sea Grant, to joining Media Lab spinoff Formlabs as a project manager. news.mit.edu/2024/nasa-mit-…

#SeaGrant & NOAA Climate.gov announce $60M to fund & support projects that will build a climate-ready workforce! Learn how #communities are partnering to train workers and place them into #climate #resilience enhancing #jobs across the nation: bit.ly/CRW-Announceme… #SGResilience

Announcing the winners of the 2024 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research: Unyime Usua MIT EECS + Santiago Borrego MIT Mathematics trained machine learning algorithms to aid aquaculturists in identifying + counting healthy shellfish larvae: shorturl.at/5m6Ph

August 3: Join MIT Open Space Programming MIT Sea Grant + Charles River Conservancy for a family-friendly LEAP Lab with hands-on activities, microscopes + an engineering challenge, followed by a walk to the Floating Wetland! 11am in the Kendall/MIT Open Space Register: shorturl.at/qk9VW

MIT Sea Grant created a marine debris visualization interface with tools to explore the flow of debris from source to sea in collaboration with Stonehill College Cohasset Center for Student Coastal Research + a coalition of educators, students, environmental orgs, communities+ fishermen: shorturl.at/Lm7sZ

Hear from the Massachusetts Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellows at this Sip O' Science event! WHOI Sea Grant + MIT Sea Grant Fellows Sarah Guitart (UMass Amherst) + Nicole Vandale (Northeastern U.) have focused in on tern foraging and microplastics. Register: seagrant.whoi.edu/science-at-our…

Join CSCR Mon July 29 4pm in Scituate; premier viewing of Eden's Revenant; student produced documentary on eelgrass habitat research in local waters. Funded by MIT Sea Grant NOAA Education & the Marjot Foundation; critically important to NOAA Stellwagen Bank NMS

Join us SAT 8/3 for a family-friendly LEAP Lab with MIT Open Space Programming + Charles River Conservancy. Learn about Charles River microorganisms, the Floating Wetland + more at the Kendall/MIT Open Space from 11am-12pm, followed by a walk to the Floating Wetland: tinyurl.com/Aug3LEAP

Due to rain in the forecast, tomorrow's LEAP Lab with MIT Sea Grant + Charles River Conservancy will take place inside the MIT Welcome Center (292 Main St)! openspace.mit.edu/calendar/leap-…

Lots of free Sea Grant resources available now on TPT, including our Build a Floating Wetland Model project we developed with the Charles River Conservancy: teacherspayteachers.com/store/sea-grant

#SeaGrant is furthering #sustainable production of U.S. #seafood with $8.8 million in funding for 33 #aquaculture projects! 🐟🦪🌿 Read about the projects spanning #coastal & #GreatLakes #communities: bit.ly/SG-FY24-AQ

MIT Sea Grant + WHOI Sea Grant welcome two new MA Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellows focusing in on blue crabs + jellyfish. Bridgett Hunt (right) is starting her PhD with MIT-WHOI Joint Program + Neida Villanueva Galarza (left) is beginning her PhD at Northeastern U.: shorturl.at/9MjTO

Our Summer Newsletter is out now, featuring funded projects, student highlights + more! >> View the Summer Newsletter here: conta.cc/4dablX0 >> Sign up to receive MIT Sea Grant newsletters at: seagrant.mit.edu/newsletter/