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Ocean currents play a role in predicting extent of Arctic sea ice
researchers at MIT have developed a new method for optimally combining models and observations to accurately ... scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. “Until a few years ago, people ... and decline.” Heimbach and former MIT graduate student Ian Fenty, now a postdoc at NASA’s Jet ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ocean-currents-play-role-predicting-extent-arctic-sea-iceSolving the polar climate conundrum
may even be gaining sea ice. Now, MIT researchers have a better understanding of the elemental ... the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT, and his group investigated this phenomenon ... explain why the Arctic has warmed faster than the Antarctic. In MIT computer simulations of the ocean and ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/solving-polar-climate-conundrumBroadening the 'SCOPE' of microbial oceanography
actually quite difficult to connect them,” says Mick Follows, an associate professor in MIT ... founding SCOPE investigators, along with others at MIT, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the ... of MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for the past 10 years, recently ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/broadening-scope-microbial-oceanographyStretchable Hydrogel Electronics
Water-based “Band-Aid” senses temperature, lights up, and delivers medicine to the skin. MIT ... Zhao, the Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... by the Office of Naval Research, the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, and the National ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/stretchable-hydrogel-electronicsArtificial whisker reveals source of harbor seal’s uncanny prey-sensing ability
is due in part to its antennae-like whiskers. Now engineers at MIT have fabricated and tested ... object’s path, its size, and even its shape. Michael Triantafyllou, the William I. Koch Professor in MIT ... Naval Research, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and the MIT Sea Grant program. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/artificial-whisker-reveals-source-harbor-seal%E2%80%99s-uncanny-prey-sensing-ability-0Alumni Spotlight: John Wall (SB, SM ’75, ScD ’78) and Jennifer Rumsey (SM ’98)
to be up until his retirement from Cummins just this past October – the MIT educational counselor for ... engineering at MIT. “After he graduated, Leroy returned to his job at Chevron Research in San Francisco,” ... Wall, in his role as MIT educational counselor, first saw Rumsey’s technical capability and interest. ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/alumni-spotlight-john-wall-sb-sm-%E2%80%9975-scd-%E2%80%9978-and-jennifer-rumsey-sm-%E2%80%9998J-WAFS Solutions program awards $750,000 in commercialization grants
managed by the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, is in its second year. Like direct ... Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Professor, says that MIT faculty continue to devise ... “Commercializing effective technologies with sound business models is one of MIT’s most effective mechanisms to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-solutions-program-awards-750000-commercialization-grantsTransparent, gel-based robots can catch and release live fish
Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in ... associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and graduate ... co-authors include MIT graduate students Shaoting Lin and Chu Ma, postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli, and associate ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/transparent-gel-based-robots-can-catch-and-release-live-fishMethod may help myeloma patients avoid painful biopsies
MIT have devised a microfluidic technique to capture and count circulating plasma cells from small ... which require patients to travel long distances,” says former MIT postdoc Mohammad Qasaimeh. “Capturing ... co-authors include Rohit Karnik, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering; Yichao ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/method-may-help-myeloma-patients-avoid-painful-biopsiesWater, water everywhere … even in the air
MIT and the University of California at Berkeley could provide a novel way of obtaining clean, fresh ... including MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, MIT postdoc Sameer Rao, graduate ... humidity of 100 percent, explains Wang, who is the Gail E. Kendall Professor at MIT. But such ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/water-water-everywhere-%E2%80%A6-even-airScientists produce dialysis membrane made from graphene
making it difficult for target molecules to quickly pass through. Now MIT engineers have fabricated ... explored for applications in electronics, Piran Kidambi, a postdoc in MIT’s Department of Mechanical ... reporting the technology, published today in Advanced Materials. Six co-authors are from MIT, including ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/scientists-produce-dialysis-membrane-made-grapheneTechnique spots warning signs of extreme events
systems with a complex and ever-changing mix of players and pieces. rogue wave 1024.jpg Engineers at MIT ... MIT have devised a framework for identifying key patterns that precede an extreme event. The framework ... at MIT. “We have applied this framework to turbulent fluid flows, which are the Holy Grail of extreme ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/technique-spots-warning-signs-extreme-eventsA new way to mix oil and water
researchers at MIT might turn that expression on its head, providing a way to get the two substances to mix ... the proportion of surfactant. The findings, by MIT graduate student Ingrid Guha, former postdoc ... down wells are also emulsions, Varanasi says. The work was supported by the MIT Energy Initiative, the ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-way-mix-oil-and-waterIn field tests, device harvests water from desert air
Now, researchers at MIT have proved that such an extraction system can work. The new device, based on ... senior author of both papers. MIT postdoc Sameer Rao and former graduate student Hyunho Kim SM ’14, PhD ... ’18 were the lead authors of the latest paper, along with four others at MIT and the University of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/field-tests-device-harvests-water-desert-airTeaching robots how to move objects
graduate student Maria Bauza, who served as task-planning lead for the MIT-Princeton Team, the moment was ... in Barcelona. During a year as a visiting student at MIT, Bauza was able to put her interest in ... computer science and artificial intelligence into practice. “When I came to MIT for that year, I starting ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/teaching-robots-how-move-objectsShowcasing solutions for land, sea, space — and everywhere in between
one of the 44 participants in this year’s MIT Mechanical Engineering Research Exhibition (MERE), which ... Engineers (GAME) and MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Graduate students, postdocs, and ... the event gave the entire mechanical engineering community at MIT an opportunity to learn about ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/showcasing-solutions-land-sea-space-%E2%80%94-and-everywhere-betweenBlending medicine and mechanical engineering
both industry and academia. As an assistant professor at MIT, she holds a joint appointment in the ... joined an online Irish network to stay connected to her roots. “When I emailed an online group of MIT and ... position in mechanical engineering and medical engineering at MIT after completing her PhD. She deferred ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/blending-medicine-and-mechanical-engineeringNew polymer films conduct heat instead of trapping it
a Styrofoam coffee cup, both manufactured from polymer materials that are excellent at trapping heat. Now MIT ... Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering at MIT, and a senior co-author on the paper. “Our bigger vision is, ... Li from MIT, and Zhang Jiang of Argonne National Laboratory. In 2010, the team reported success in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-polymer-films-conduct-heat-instead-trapping-itNew surface treatment could improve refrigeration efficiency
away with them. Now, researchers at MIT have made significant progress in promoting droplet formation ... developed at MIT by Gleason and is now widely used. The authors optimized the iCVD process by tuning the ... condenser systems.” The research was supported by the Shell-MIT Energy Initiative partnership. The team ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-surface-treatment-could-improve-refrigeration-efficiencySuper-strong surgical tape detaches on demand
Last year, MIT engineers developed a double-sided adhesive that could quickly and firmly stick ... at MIT. “You put the adhesive on, and if for any reason you want to take it off, you can do so ... along with Jingjing Wu at MIT, and Christoph Nabzdyk at Mayo Clinic Rochester. Unbreakable bonds In ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/super-strong-surgical-tape-detaches-demand