Bendta Schroeder | School of Science This spring, the MIT School of Science welcomes three new professors including geophysicist Brent Minchew to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
Carolyn Schmitt | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research shows the Clean Air Act was likely responsible for a dramatic decline in atmospheric organic aerosol.
By Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeMIT Joint Program workshop highlights pathways toward sustainable water resources
Helen Hill | EAPS NewsA review article involving Stephanie Dutkiewicz and Oliver Jahn suggests the diatoms have more diverse roles in carbon cycling than previously understood.
Angela Ellis | EAPS Development OfficeThis academic year, thanks entirely to the generosity of past and present alumni and friends, we are proud to be supporting 18 graduate students on EAPS fellowships.
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeMIT study projects potential impact of climate change on large power transformers in U.S. Northeast.
Helen Hill | EAPS NewsThis year, the Lorenz Center invited Susan Solomon to give the 7th annual John Carlson Lecture at the New England Aquarium on October 26th, 2017. Professor Solomon talked about past environmental challenges that were successfully overcome and how climate change, as perhaps “the mother” of all environmental challenges, compares.
Lauren HinkelBefore the start of the semester, fourteen incoming first year students joined researchers and students from MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) for a five-day exploration of extreme weather and climate.
Helen Hill for EAPS News and the University of BristolExpert analysis of fossil organic molecules by researchers in the Summons Lab provides palaeontologists with important new insight into how animal soft tissues fossilize and the importance of fats, or lipids, in that process.
Lauren HinkelNear the beginning of each academic year, members of PAOC attend a weekend retreat for science, recreation, and relaxation, generously subsidized by the Houghton Fund.
University of BristolNew study in Nature Communications finds little growth in India's methane emissions. EAPS Professor Ronald Prinn, a co-author of the study, stresses the need for countries to accurately and transparently quantify their greenhouse gas emissions.
David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Colorado forest study provides clearest-ever picture of gases released into the atmosphere and how they change.
October302012
Where to find a tasty codepod?
Oceanus Magazine, WHOIMIT-WHOI Joint Program grad student Nick Woods and the team from the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at WHOI are helping to untangle the combination of physical and biological processes that create dense patches of the tiny marine organism (codepods) favored by basking sharks, cod, haddock and the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
October302012
Ocean Microstructure and Why Study It?
NASA Earth Observatory "Notes from the Field" BlogGrad student Alec Bogdanoff is currently at sea making ocean microstructure measurements. Find out what that means and meet the team he works with at WHOI in today's NASA Earth Observatory blog entry.
October302012
Coral Reefs, Sinking Islands, and the Half-Complete Theory of Charles Darwin
Oceans at MITMIT-Joint program student Michael Toomey joins geomorphologists Taylor Perron (EAPS) and Andrew Ashton (WHOI) in an exploration of why Darwin's theory of atoll evolution doesn't fit the observed life-cycle of some volcanic ocean island chains.
Oceans Online
John Marshall and the Oceans at MIT team, pull together all things "ocean" to create a new cross-campus website. Immerse yourself in this new resource for what is going on at MIT and within the MIT-WHOI Joint Program.
September172012
Exploring the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice
Researcher An Nguyen reports on a numerical modeling study to better understand the origin and character of the western arctic upper halocline.
July222012
Which skink's which?
Otaga Daily TimesTools developed by Sai Ravela and co-workers being used in New Zealand to study skink ecology.
July202012
Program will identify skinks
Ecological Informatics by PhotographyA new method to understand the migratory behavior of individuals in ecosystems through pattern recognition
Following the Ice: Is this Global Warming?
Ben Linhoff MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Ben Linhoff's is blogging from the Greenland Ice Sheet for Scientific American this summer
July22012
Clouds over Karlsruhe
Sarvesh GarimellaGraduate student Sarvesh Garimella blogging from Germany
New Students
PAOC is happy to announce that fourteen new students will join us in the fall.
June182012
Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water
Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeAdam Schlosser co-author on an NREL-MIT study showing an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.
Scientists Discover the "Vitamin B12 Claw"
Oceanus Magazine, WHOIGraduating doctoral student Erin Bertrand and co-authors and a newfound protein is key for algae growth in the ocean
May312012
Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question?
Cambridge Science FestivalIf you missed the Cambridge Science Festival "Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question?" panel last month here is a video of the event.
May222012
Illari receives education and advising award
Helen HillDr. Illari was joined by several of her students at last Thursday's presentation ceremony where she received an Education and Advising Award from the School of Science
Communicating the Climate Challenge
Vicki Ekstrom, JPSPGC for MIT NewsWatch again as New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at PAOC co-sponsored Earth Day colloquium.