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Research enables fishermen to harvest lucrative shellfish on Georges Bank
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Scientists have known for many years that the phytoplankton Alexandrium fundyense is the cause of the harmful algae blooms that occur to varying severity each spring and summer along the coastal Gulf of Maine, sometimes extending as far south as Cape...
Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
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The most mysterious technological object on the planet should have been destroyed at least three times. First, the device made it through a violent shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. Then, it sat submerged in salt water on a sandy cliff 200 feet below...
PlanetSolar — World’s Largest Solar Boat — Arrives in Boston!
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This article first appeared on 1sun4all. MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, with her crew and scientists onboard, arrived in Boston to continue her 2013 “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition.&nbsp...
Emerging Underwater Businesses: Three Companies to Note
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By Frank Tobe. Publisher, The Robot Report Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Sentry ROV We've read about their use in last year's Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill and their underwater repair work, traipsing the corridors and collecting...
MBL Scientists to Explore Hidden Realm of Microbes, Viruses Beneath the Ocean Floor
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 20, 2012 CONTACT: Diana Kenney, Marine Biological Laboratory, 508-289-7139; dkenney@mbl.edu Plans for the National Science Foundation’s cabled seafloor observatory at Axial Seamount (inset), west of the Oregon coast. Credit...

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Oceans at MIT | Striving to understand, harness and sustain Earth's defining frontier.

Ocean Engineering at MIT Emerging technologies such as under-water robots and sonar communication tools usher in a new era of autonomous ocean exploration. Coastal Oceans With half of all people livin...
Evolution of Oceans and Life | Oceans at MIT

Reconstructing the Parallel Evolution of Life and Oceans Sedimentary rocks store most records of past life and biogeochemical processes. Reconstructions of these records illuminate interactions betwee...

Coral Reefs and Sinking Islands: Revisiting Darwin’s Other Theory | Oceans at MIT

Coral Reefs and Sinking Islands: Revisiting Darwin’s Other Theory by Genevieve Wanucha The coral reefs encircling many volcanic ocean islands of the South Pacific appear in one of three forms. Tahiti’...