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Bras eyes 'intertwined dance' of land, water, plantsIf the lesson of this year's Killian Award lecture could be told as a folk proverb, it might be this: Water changes land, land changes plant, plant changes land, land changes water. March 31, 2009 Team observes genesis of fish shoalsFor the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals -- in this case, fish. March 26, 2009 Former Professor Mollo-Christensen, concentration camp survivor, 86Former professor and NASA scientist Erik L. Mollo-Christensen '48, SM '49, ScD '54 who resisted Nazi occupation of his native Norway and survived the Buchenwald concentration camp, died on Feb. 20. He was 86. February 25, 2009 Lermusiaux chosen for Doherty ProfessorshipThe MIT Sea Grant College Program has selected Pierre Lermusiaux, associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering's Center for Ocean Engineering, as the recipient of the 2009 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization. February 19, 2009 Aliens at seaWhen anthropologist Stefan Helmreich decided to study scientists who chase some of the world's smallest creatures in some of the world's most forbidding places, his research took an unexpected twist. February 5, 2009 Catch the waveMIT researchers are working with Portuguese colleagues to design a pilot-scale device that will capture significantly more of the energy in ocean waves than existing systems, and use it to power an electricity-generating turbine. December 17, 2008 A plankton-eat-plankton worldMIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain. The work may lead to better predictions of marine microbes' influence on climate. December 15, 2008 Dig this: RoboClamThe simple razor clam has inspired a new MIT robot that could lead to a "smart" anchor that burrows through the ocean floor. The RoboClam is being developed to explore the performance capabilities of clam-inspired digging and the behavior of the real animal. November 25, 2008 |
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