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Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal – There is a great deal of interest in potentially utilizing the ocean’s capability to capture and store carbon to help mitigate climate change, but how can the CO2 drawdown of proposed interventions be reliability calculated?
Deep Seabed Mining – The abyssal ocean is host to the majority of the planet’s critical mineral resources, yet currently all mining is land-based. What would be the extent of the impact due to obtaining metals such as nickel and cobalt from the deep seabed?
Arctic Ocean Dynamics – The Arctic is changing at a rapid pace. What changes are occurring in the Arctic Ocean and what are the key dynamic and transport processes involved?
Flow Transport – Ocean currents are typically highly variable in space and time, making flow transport predictions challenging for scenarios ranging from search-and-rescue operations to pollution transport. Novel dynamical systems methods can reveal the hidden skeleton of flow transport.
Stratified Flows – Dynamics driven by density variations in a fluid are ubiquitous, ranging from internal gravity waves in the ocean to the propagation of sediment laden flows. Fundamental understanding of stratified flows provides key insights into both natural and industrial flows.

“ENDLab is at the forefront of advancing understanding for emerging ocean utilization technologies through the development of cutting-edge monitoring programs, novel sensor development, and the utilization and advancement of modeling tools, all anchored in fundamental fluid dynamics.”

Research Spotlights

  • ENDLab receives two new grants to study monitoring and modeling of mCDR
    The ENDLab has received two new grants from the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) to develop state of the art approaches to underpin Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR)….
  • Scientists measure plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
    Results of a recent field study, published as the cover article in Science Advances, reveals that a fundamental fluid dynamic process, turbidity current dynamics, is a key component for setting the scale of impact of proposed deep-sea mining operations….
  • Multi-year data sets of Arctic Ocean dynamics
    Over the past six years, six Pop-up Data Shuttle (PDS) Current and Pressure-recording Inverted Echo Sounders (CPIES) have been repeatedly deployed and recovered in the abyssal Arctic Ocean, investigating deep water dynamics and ocean warming….

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