[SEMCO] MIT Sea Grant Newsletter: August 2014

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Newsletter: August 2014

In This Issue

Robert Vincent joins MIT Sea Grant as the new Marine Advisory Services 
Leader
Welcome to Carolina Bastidas as a new visiting research associate
Judith Pederson steps down as the Marine Advisory Services Leader
MIT Sea Grant high school program alum is admitted to MIT
Underwater robotics and ocean science summer programs for high schoolers
The 2014 Blue Lobster Bowl
Quantifying carbon storage in eelgrass 
Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities
Rescue project for New England fishermen
Autonomous Surface Vessel deployment
Cooling system design tool for energy-efficient ships
Numerical model to mitigate coastal flooding

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FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Greetings from MIT Sea Grant, where we have been busy working on an array of exciting
projects and programs under our overarching mission to address ocean and climate-related
challenges.

We start by welcoming two new additions to our staff, and we thank a long-time member
for her years of service as she moves on to next steps. We also celebrate the admittance
to MIT of the son of our faithful administrative assistant, and we are proud to 
count him as alum of one of our ocean engineering programs for high school students.

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.

Our research engineers never cease to impress with extraordinary innovations, including
a new ASV (autonomous surface vehicle) for ocean science exploration; a new thermal
management simulation tool to evaluate and mitigate effects of increased heat loads
in electric ships; and a new numerical model that simulates the physics of near-shore
waves that can help communities prepare ahead of time for future superstorms.

On behalf of our staff here at MIT Sea Grant, I hope you enjoy reading our latest
news, and we welcome your suggestions and comments as we continue to serve you.

Sincerely,

Chrys Chryssostomidis

Director
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Robert Vincent Joins MIT Sea Grant as the new Marine Advisory Services Leader

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.
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MIT Sea Grant Welcomes Carolina Bastidas as a New Visiting Research Associate

Carolina Bastidas joined our team this summer as a visiting research associate in
the Marine Advisory Services group. She is a marine scientist with over fifteen 
years of professional experience in basic and applied research on the ecology of
 marine hard-bottom communities and human impacts on them. After earning her PhD
 from James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, Bastidas was appointed to 
a faculty position at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela, where she
 spent ten years establishing valuable collaborations between local and international
colleagues, and focused her work largely on coral reefs and the biology of their
 marine invertebrates. Bastidas' portfolio also includes a vast array of teaching
and mentoring, proposal writing, leading and managing research projects, and communicating
her research results in peer-reviewed journals and through outreach activities.
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Judith Pederson steps down as MIT Sea Grant's Marine Advisory Services Leader

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.
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to watch a CBS news report from last summer featuring Pederson co-leading a study
of non-native marine species survey across New England.
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MIT Sea Grant Distinguished Alum to attend MIT as an Undergraduate this Fall

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. CLICK HERE TO WATCH
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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!
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MIT Sea Grant's Engineering Educator Teaches Underwater Robotics to Minority High
School Students from Around the US this Summer

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VIDEOS OF OUR OTHER EDUCATION
PROGRAMS

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.
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Blue Lobster Bowl 2014

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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. 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.
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Quantifying Carbon Storage in Eelgrass May Help Scientist Mitigate Global Warming
Effects

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.
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Climate Change Symposium on Sustaining Coastal Cities

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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.
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Rescue Project for New England's Fishermen

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.
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An Autonomous Surface Vessel in Development for Deploying Remotely Operated Vehicles
for Underwater Scientific Exploration

Research Engineer Mike Defilippo is co-leading a team of engineers from MIT Sea 
Grant's AUV Lab, MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), and
Olin College, in designing an autonomous surface vessel (ASV) outfitted with sensors,
computers, and software, and equipped with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The
autonomous surface vessel will be capable of driving without human interaction to
locations for scientific underwater exploration, such as to coral reefs. Once at
 its destination, the ASV will be able to deploy the ROV, which can be controlled
remotely by an operator via the Internet from any location in the world. The team
of researchers plan to display their engineering prowess at the Maritime RobotX 
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held in Singapore in October  where the ASV will be required to complete in a course
based on a variety of complicated maritime surface vessel missions.
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Cooling System Design Tool in Development at MIT Sea Grant's Design Lab

The presence of fast and high-density power electronics and high-power sensors in
All Electric Ships (AES) is expected to result in orders of magnitude increases 
in thermal loads. The implications of this potential on the overall ship design 
are largely unknown and go beyond the obvious impact on size, weight, volume and
 cost of traditional thermal management components. MIT Sea Grant Postdoctoral Associate
Hessam Babaee is leading a collaborative effort with researchers from Florida State
University and University of South Carolina to develop a new thermal management 
simulation tool to be used in the initial stages of the design to accurately and
 quickly evaluate and mitigate the adverse effects of increased heat loads in AES.
The tool has successfully undergone a computational development phase and is currently
being incorporated into a graphic user interface. Designers will be able to use 
this tool in evaluating the performance of various cooling systems and compute the
optimal design parameters and ultimately improve the state-of-the-art technology
 to more energy-efficient designs.
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New High Fidelity Numerical Model to Mitigate Coastal Flooding Problems

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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.
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