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An advertisement for the MIT Museum's After Dark: COLD event shows ice crystals.
Lab Happenings

Dave Whelihan delivers MIT Museum talk on Arctic technology engineering

September 25, 2026
A communications device enclosed in a vessel has hexagon-structures containing sensors.

Researchers tune into Arctic under-ice sounds and test through-ice communication

August 26, 2026
A diver carrying a tube-shaped tablet and an autonomous underwater vehicle swim underwater together.

Human-machine teaming dives underwater

March 30, 2026
Ivy Mahncke sits in front of the camera.

Intern Spotlight: Ivy Mahncke develops algorithms for underwater robotics

January 23, 2026
A large tent and supplies sit atop ice in the Arctic.

Q&A with David Whelihan on the challenges of operating in the Arctic

August 26, 2025
A metal frame floats in Boston Harbor, with the city in the backdrop.

Surface-based sonar system could rapidly map the ocean floor at high resolution

December 2, 2024
A photo of Arctic sea ice fracturing into big chunks.

Researchers return to Arctic to test integrated sensor nodes

July 9, 2024
Cadets Rodrigue and Padmanaban mount their motor to their underwater vehicle.

Laboratory staff advise Massachusetts Sea Cadets for an underwater robotics competition

September 5, 2023
Ice fractures at the Great Lakes Research Center.
In the Media

Home ice advantage: GLRC hosts MIT engineers on Huron Bay for ice fracturing research

April 11, 2023
Michigan Tech
An orange cone warns ice camp participants to not go beyond this point. The Laboratory team placed seismometers on the fringes of camp and as close to ice cracks like this one as they were allowed to go.

Cracking the case of Arctic sea ice breakup

May 23, 2022
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