Radiation Beneath Our Feet

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jessica Dabrowski uses naturally-occurring radioactive isotopes to study climate change in the Arctic. 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

Paul O’Gorman on the Promise of Machine Learning in Climate Modeling

As machine learning expands into climate modeling, EAPS Professor Paul O’Gorman answers what that looks like and why now. View all spotlights

A Labor of Love

Ali Ramadhan recently launched “Project Lovelace,” a website that helps scientists hone their programming skills with interactive problem sets. View all spotlights

A “Pacemaker” for North African Climate

Study shows the Sahara swung between lush and desert conditions every 20,000 years, in sync with monsoon activity. View all spotlights

In Case You Missed It

The top 10 stories to come out of the Program of Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in 2018! View all spotlights

New Climate Model to be Built from the Ground Up

Professors Raffaele Ferrari and John Marshall, along with colleagues from Caltech, NASA's JPL, and the Naval Postgraduate School, envision a revolution in climate modeling using data assimilation and machine learning. View all spotlights