Remembering Wallace Broecker

Associate Professor David McGee recounts his time with Wally Broecker, a climate science giant who passed away in February. View all spotlights

Machine Learning Identifies Links Between World’s Oceans

Postdoc Maike Sonnewald adapted a method that identifies areas of the global ocean with similar physics, revealing global dynamical regimes. View all spotlights

Nautical Day at the MIT Museum

PAOC members illustrated the sweeter side of ocean modeling at the MIT Museum's 2019 Nautical Day. View all spotlights

Remembering Walter Munk

Carl Wunsch and Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli recount their time with Walter Munk, one of the most respected oceanographers of the 21st century, who passed away this month at the age of 101. View all spotlights

Climate Change Makes Summer Weather Stormier Yet More Stagnant

Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation. View all spotlights

Tuning the Model

Meghana Ranganathan uses math and machine learning to improve how climate predictions are made. View all spotlights

Study: Much of the Surface Ocean Will Shift in Color by End of 21st Century

Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans. View all spotlights

From the Marines to MIT

EAPS Assistant Professor Brent Minchew has flown presidents and foreign dignitaries on Marine One. Today, he leads Glaciers at MIT, where he searches for clues on how ice sheets evolve and respond to changing climate. View all spotlights