Archive for March 2023

Michel, an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, was part of a three-person crew aboard the submersible Alvin as it dove down to the Mid-Cayman Rise. Known as the Beebe Hydrothermal Vent Field, these vents exist on the ocean floor where two tectonic plates are separating about a half an inch…

Sylas Horowitz helped to build and retrofit a Blue ROV to be used in the Canadian High Arctic by the Chemical Sensors Lab. In this feature article, Horowitz says, “I want to relate mechanical engineering to sustainability and environmental justice,” they say. “Engineers need to think about how technology fits into the greater societal context…