Climate Change to Deplete Some US Water Basins, Reduce Irrigated Crop Yields

By 2050, the Southwest will produce significantly less cotton and forage, researchers report.

Rising Temperatures are Curbing Ocean’s Capacity to Store Carbon

Study finds large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to yearly U.K. emissions, remain in surface waters.

de Wit Named Innovators Under 35 -- 2017 Innovator of the Year, Belgium

Innovators Under 35, also known as TR35, is an annual list published by MIT Technology Review magazine, naming the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35.

Costa Christopoulos Wins the Christopher Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research

The award is given for innovative experimental design, care in data collection, and sensitive application of results to research problems.

Pauline Morrow Austin: Radar & Weather Maven

 Pauline Morrow Austin (PhD '42) joined MIT's Weather Radar Research Project at its inception in 1946 and went on to direct the project from 1956-1979. Her pioneering work to interpret weather radar echoes laid the foundation for modern radar meteorology.

Recognizing a Legacy of Citizenship and Devotion to MIT

Michael McClellan Receives the 2017 Karl Taylor Compton Prize.

MIT-NASA Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge

New MIT-NASA research using models of Atlantic circulation finds that the ocean absorbs atmospheric gases more easily than heat energy, and the slowing circulation that results, reduces its ability to absorb both.

2017 Senior Thesis Presentations

Each year, graduating seniors majoring in EAPS present a thesis in completion of their Bachelor of Science Degree. This year, EAPS had a class of 8 students specializing in areas across the earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, 5 of whom were advised by PAOC members.

Measuring Biological Dust in the Wind

A new technique developed in the Cziczo Lab may be the most accurate way of identifying biological aerosols from mineral dust in the atmosphere, constraining their contribution to cloud formation and climate change.

MIT issues statement regarding research on Paris Agreement

MIT issued the following statement on Thursday, June 1 2017.

An Ocean of Curiosity

MIT oceanographers explore Earth’s seas with the Boston community for the 2017 Cambridge Science Festival at the MIT Museum.

Happy 100th Birthday to the Father of Chaos

Today, May 23rd, Edward N. Lorenz, longtime professor of meteorology at MIT, would have turned 100. Widely recognized as the father of the modern theory of chaos, he profoundly altered the way we view the natural world.

Varied Increases in Extreme Rainfall with Global Warming