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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>In addressing global climate change, our research scientists have been quantifying carbon levels in eelgrass beds along the Massachusetts coastline. The MIT Sea Grant Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities was a successful event held here in June, and we summarize some of the details in the following pages. On the social sciences front, our in-house anthropologist has been working with New England fishermen to develop a guide to best management practices that will help fishing communities deal with accidents at sea.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Robert Vincent joined the MIT Sea Grant College Program in July as the new Advisory Services Leader, replacing Judy Pederson who has retained the role as staff marine ecologist. Vincent comes to us from NOAA Fisheries, where he spent the last eight years as a statistician and restoration ecologist. He brings with him over 20 years of experience in estuarine research and restoration in the northeast. His primary focus areas are ecology and restoration of freshwater wetland, estuarine, and marine systems. Vincent's research interests include physical and biological processes that influence ecosystem structure and function; connectivity and food web dynamics; and the effects of climate and anthropogenic impacts on natural systems and ecosystem services.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>Dr. Judith Pederson stepped down as Leader of our Marine Advisory Services, a position she held for the past 4 years. For nearly 20 years, she has played a pivotal role at MIT Sea Grant, most notably with her contribution to the Gulf of Maine Regional Ocean Science Initiative, and in her compilation and editing of the 2009 Gulf of Maine Strategic Ocean Science Plan. An international expert on marine invasive species, her research has focused on the "biopollution" of marine bioinvasions in near-shore and offshore areas of the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. In addition to her research over the past 20 years, Pederson has made special contributions to water-quality monitoring in Boston Harbor and other Massachusetts-area clean-up efforts, and worked on projects for the disposal of contaminated marine sediments. <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); text-decoration: none;" track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001TB2yJYSIW7VlUnXGs4kZDME3PlHnUM_ji_RbXbd3GfWarAn1aG2s3ttQEh2J507zKWNFmvWVrc1FsGWtfQyM8EkW9gA3skUOA8IfiVgVBPTrEw6ZubzyVJNKps6AwCC7XY7dhse3tApgYtYS4Q2fcgMsNvcvy93SHsJSQx_Hc_AqlfMXebNVM--9jKZUqD8lyEFyd-xHum5rJO4UiD-4HzSJbnsB7gieP4HAXHpwXnA3h-UDsI_1ObAThNSf6ykmJBm7-rlmq6k9nCWY8Y64zw==&c=E9HsciCRCSFbAEJN3VTtM03X_io6laECrfhiiES1l9fJZnRebfWYNQ==&ch=RgvLCh3OzEO0K5FKBEyux-ksH9jlOOYoJOa-AqAsxLltIg6lfmD1og==" linktype="1" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to watch a CBS news report from last summer featuring Pederson co-leading a study of non-native marine species survey across New England.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MIT Sea Grant Administrative Assistant Gayle Sherman is sending off her son, David Ricardo, to college this year. She won't be sending him very far. In fact, he'll be closer now than he was during his high school years at Cambridge Ringe and Latin. On behalf of our entire staff, we are excited to announce that David will begin his studies here at MIT this fall. In addition to the fact that David is the son of our longtime faithful colleague, we are also proud to count him as a distinguished alum of our 2012 Ocean Engineering Experience. <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); text-decoration: none;" track="on" shape="rect" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001TB2yJYSIW7VlUnXGs4kZDME3PlHnUM_ji_RbXbd3GfWarAn1aG2s3t20YX_4HUqO5Eg1fTDTdQfMCllP6_nHgC6CNQqcA_FTlQ3172P3NanycyaEJLPjcXKBQwJnANyeQArgcOWa01fnwYAN8p5QPiS4LV1Sn6adQ9x4BdpTPJu1pGPOYGu1TkUUiLjL8bigmq-xnl_R00Y=&c=E9HsciCRCSFbAEJN3VTtM03X_io6laECrfhiiES1l9fJZnRebfWYNQ==&ch=RgvLCh3OzEO0K5FKBEyux-ksH9jlOOYoJOa-AqAsxLltIg6lfmD1og==" linktype="1" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO!</a>. He has been creating a data visualization interface at Apperian this summer, building upon his programming success at OEX. David is passionate about studying engineering to maintain our coastal environment, given the uncertain future of climate change. We would like to congratulate mother and son on this exciting new chapter!</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>For the past several years, Engineering Educator Kathryn Shroyer has been at the forefront of MIT Sea Grant's suite of innovative, hands-on, educational programs in marine ecology, ocean engineering, and underwater robotics. These programs provide exciting learning experiences for young people in support of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) principles. Shroyer has specially-tailored various detailed curriculums using Sea Perch, an underwater robotics program that teaches students how to build an ROV (remotely operated vehicle), as a basic component. This year Shroyer partnered with MIT's Office of Engineering and Outreach Programs (OEOP) for the second year in a row to lead the Underwater Robotics portion of three summer residential programs offered at MIT for minority students from around the US. Shroyer taught students to build the Sea Perch and challenged them to design, build and test their own version of the ROV using the unique set of skills and principles to which she introduced them through their course.</span> </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>MIT Sea Grant College Program organized and hosted the 17th annual Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT on March 1, 2014. This year's tournament included 120 students from 15 Massachusetts high schools. With MIT Sea Grant's Kathryn Shroyer leading the program, along with a number of volunteers, the students were split into divisions and teams and were tested in classrooms across the MIT campus. They responded to quick-answer buzzer questions and thought-provoking group challenge questions, on ocean science principles they studied throughout the year at their respective schools leading up to the tournament. Topics included marine biology, chemistry, geology, physics, navigation, geography, and related ocean history, literature, and public policy. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MIT Sea Grant research scientists and partners were also on hand throughout the day to offer information and guidance to students interested in marine science and ocean engineering careers.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>MIT Sea Grant Coastal Ecologist Julie Simpson is leading a groundbreaking study on eelgrass in Massachusetts's near shore waters. The team of researchers has spent the summer sampling eelgrass meadows along the Massachusetts shore and measuring the carbon stored in these habitats. Eelgrass meadows may be "hotspots" for carbon storage, reducing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses. The problem, explains Simpson, is that not much is known about the eelgrass meadows because being underwater they are difficult to study, and many of them are being lost due to invasive species, habitat degradation, and water pollution. Simpson and her team want to find out how much carbon is stored in the eelgrass so that society as a whole can start adding economic value to them as we seek ways to address the growing problem of global warming.</span> </p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span>In June, MIT Sea Grant College convened a three-day Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities. Leaders in academia, government, and private industry addressed concerns for change in sea level, storm surges, extreme precipitation and flooding and options for adapting to these risks. Noted speakers and experts with vested interests in public health and safety shared the latest scientific, technical and social information in three general thematic areas. The first area covered current knowledge of the science and uncertainty associated with predictions and future scenarios of sea level rise, storms, precipitation, models, and tools as they apply to coastal cities and populations in Boston, Cambridge and surrounding towns. The second theme explored the risks and responsibilities for public health and safety and the politics and policies that limit what can be done within current practices and regulations. The third area examined adaptation measures, including green landscaping, planning and implementation, communicating with the public, and identifying efforts to mitigate human-related impacts on climate. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MIT Sea Grant Anthropologist Madeleine Hall-Arber is collaborating on a Fishermen's Partnership-funded research project to get an insider perspective of accidents at sea, and to help determine best practices for to address them in the future. The goal of the project is to develop a manual that will be helpful to fishing families, fishing communities and even the Coast Guard in times of distress due to loss of fishermen or vessels at sea. The researchers are interviewing leaders in the fishing industry, survivors, and families of people lost at sea, as well as the Coast Guard and political leaders. They are hoping to identify what has been done poorly in the past in order to learn from those mistakes, and what has been done correctly so that those steps may inform other communities. They are also seeking to identify gaps that exist in helping individuals and communities during and in the aftermath of ordeals related to accidents at sea.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">MIT Sea Grant Assistant Director for Research Stefano Brizzolara and visiting PhD student Riccardo Angelini Rota are working on a new numerical model to simulate the complex physics and effects on waves in the near-shore region. Due to climate change, they explain, the level of the ocean will rise significantly in the next fifty to one hundred years. Their goal is to simulate the risks of flooding in different areas of the Northeast region in advance, in order to increase preparedness assist community leaders with the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies. The model is based on a Smoothed Particles Hydrodynamic (SPH) solver, which helps them reproduce the hydrodynamic phenomena in coastal areas, specifically in the surf region. Brizzolara and Rota plan to reproduce problems like over-topping sea walls or at-sea structures and the run up of waves.</span></p>
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