Past Events
December 02, 2010
Speakers: Michael Triantafyllou, Carl Wunsch, Penny Chisholm, John Marshall, John Leonard, Dara Entekhabi and others.
The critical role that oceans play in climate and the health of the planet is undeniable. Recent events in the Gulf of Mexico amply demonstrate the pressing need to better monitor and actively protect the oceans, as more and more activities take place across the entire water column. Many MIT faculty and WHOI staff conduct ocean research, which can contribute greatly to safer, wiser, more sustainable use of the oceans.
November 30, 2010
Dr. Dave Rainey and Mr. Mick Leary, BP, Houston, Texas
For months, the efforts of a diverse team of scientists, technologists, and engineers to cap the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico and minimize the effects of the spill have been top of the news agenda worldwide. While the spill is no longer in the news, the team continues to work toward understanding the incident so that measures can be taken to prevent similar events in the future.
November 29, 2010
Hamish Ramsay, Columbia University
November 24, 2010
Martin G. Scharffenberg
MIT, Cambridge
Geostrophic surface velocity anomalies are used to analyze the variations of the large-scale geostrophic currents and of the Eddy Kinetic Energy (EKE) field of the ocean circulation. Using SSH measurements of the Jason-1 - TOPEX/Poseidon (JTP) tandem mission it has been possible for the first time to calculate the zonal and meridional geostrophic velocity components separately without the assumption of isotropy, and the resulting EKE subsequently along the satellite track for each along-track position.
November 22, 2010
Thomas Birner
Colorado State (http://birner.atmos.colostate.edu/)
M.A.S.S. Seminar