MIT Sea Grant

Ballast Water Exchange in the North Atlantic

Pederson, Judith; Fertig, Benjamin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2004)

This white paper focuses on the regional component of ballast water management and specifically addresses concerns in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Gulf of Maine. It summarizes vessel traffic and ballast water exchange in ...
Marine Invaders in the Northeast: Rapid Assessment Survey of Non-native and Native Marine Species of Floating Dock Communities, August 2003

Pederson, Judith; Bullock, Robert; Carlton, James; Dijkstra, Jennifer; Dobroski, Nicole; e.a. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2005)

In his seminal book on The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants, Elton (1958) laid the foundation for the science of biological invasions. He identified the importance of human-mediated vectors as means of transporting ...
Reconfigurable Modem for Ocean Observatories

Sozer, Ethem Mutlu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program, 2005)

Acoustic communications is an important part of underwater research. The mass amount of data collected by sub-sea devices can be made available to the scientific community in real-time with the utilization of acoustic modems.