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MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Australia Week 3

July 11, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

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MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Magnetic Island

July 9, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By: Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The locals say magnetic island got its name because Captain Cook’s compass went on the fritz as he approached the island, making him wonder if the island had a magnetic effect that […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Vlog 3

July 2, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

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MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Rebirth of the Giants

July 2, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By: Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The Great Barrier Reef has been ravished by outbreaks of the same spiny predator since the1960s. The Crown of Thorns starfish explode in numbers approximately every 17 years and consume vast areas […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Climbing Castle Hill

June 29, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Zoe Lallas ’20 Despite being hard at work all week long, the students of the MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative have still found time to go on adventures and explore our surroundings. This past Saturday […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Vlog 2

June 29, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

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MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Cutting Coral Cores

June 28, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Zoe Lallas ’20 Working at the Australian Institute for Marine Science (AIMS) the past two months has been full of learning experiences and odd jobs. Each member of the Great Barrier Reef Initiative was able […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Exploring the Whitsundays

June 28, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Zoe Lallas ’20 This weekend found four-fifths of the MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative just about four hours south of our home in Townsville in the Whitsunday Islands on a boat. Eager to explore Australia […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Home, Home on the Range, where the Cows and the Engineers Play

June 24, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Amber VanHemel ’19 After a 45-minute drive, we pulled up to a cattle farm in Woodstock, Australia. However, this is not your typical farm…it is actually a research facility that belongs to Commonwealth Scientific and […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Koala Sanctuary

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The MIT Great Barrier Initiative team began working on projects at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) on Tuesday. By the end of the week, research had been initiated on the […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Snorkeling in Australia

June 20, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Zoe Lallas ’20 After traveling for almost 48 hours to get from Chicago to the other side of the world, I met up with the other MIT students to finally unite the MIT Great Barrier […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative Vlog 1

June 18, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text] By Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 We have just arrived in Townsville, Australia in order to begin a new research and engineering project in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Marine Science and James Cook University on […]