Principal Investigator Dick Yue
Co-investigators J Vandiver , Pierre Lermusiaux , Nicholas Makris
Project Website http://meche.mit.edu/research/ocean/
The Ocean area seeks to better understand, protect, and utilize the oceans, which cover more than 70% of the earth’s surface.
Operating in the ocean is demanding because of the hostile wave environment, extreme pressures, and the limited ability to sustain high data-rate communications. The ocean interior is under-sampled both temporally and spatially, and, as a result, forecasting the ocean environment is challenging.
Research Includes: Acoustics, instrumentation, sensing, marine robotics, and ocean predictions; hydrodynamics; structural mechanics and dynamics; and design, naval construction, and engineering.