Alison Criscitiello PhD '14 seeks ice cores in inhospitable locations, sometimes camping on ice sheets and sleeping with a shotgun in case of bear attacks.

Grantees will spend the 2017-2018 academic year conducting research abroad.

Simons Foundation supports enhanced computer infrastructure for MIT's Darwin Project, which focuses on marine microbes and microbial communities.

Study finds ocean circulation, coupled with trade wind changes, efficiently limits shifting of tropical rainfall patterns.

Study finds large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to yearly U.K. emissions, remain in surface waters.

Startup’s novel aluminum batteries increase the range of UUVs tenfold.

Insights into the hydrodynamics of the move may improve underwater vehicle design.

Turbulence from seafloor topography may explain longstanding question about ocean circulation.

Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen.

Awards to recent alumni honor the memory of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in earth and atmospheric sciences.