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December 11 2024
The 'Fortnite' Twitch Streamers Teaching Gen Z About Climate Angela Watercutter | WIRED EAPS graduate student Henri Drake is featured in WIRED magazine for his effort to use video games to increase awareness of climate science.
October 28 2015
Cloud Watching
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Cassie Martin Bjorn Stevens, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, describes how atmospheric water contributes to climate change at the 2015 John Carlson Lecture.***Two parts hydrogen, one part oxyg...
October 11 2015
The 2015 PAOC Retreat: Jiminy Peak
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Cassie Martin  This year’s PAOC retreat in the beautiful Berkshire Mountains surrounding Jiminy Peak Resort gave attendees wonderful opportunities to befriend new colleagues, learn about new research, and enjo...
September 17 2015
New Students Discover EAPS through Extreme Weather and Climate
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Cassie Martin Before the new semester began, incoming freshmen joined EAPS for a 5-day exploration of extreme weather and climate.***Every year, MIT welcomes incoming freshmen with FPOP—a pre-orientation program ai...
August 22 2015
Life on Mars Time
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Cassie Martin Humans may one day live on Mars, but how will we adjust to the time change, and how will our new environment redefine our concept of time? Graduate student and artist Sara Morawetz teamed up with NASA...
July 14 2015
Susan Solomon on Lessons from the Ozone Hole
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Cassie Martin MIT Atmospheric Chemist Susan Solomon recounts how scientists, world governments, and the public worked together to stop the ozone hole from growing, and what we can learn from those actions that coul...
July 6 2015
For the Love of Physics: From Oceans to Other Planets
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Cassie Martin MIT Oceanographer Glenn Flierl’s passion lies in understanding the physics that shape life as we know it on Earth and other planets.***Much like the ocean currents he studies, MIT Oceanographer G...
June 10 2015
Middle School Students Pay PAOC a Visit
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Cassie Martin A group of students from Weston Middle School recently visited EAPS to learn about the atmosphere, weather, and oceans.***Recent sunny days and warm temperatures signal the beginning of summer and the...
May 23 2015
Uncovering Diversity in an Invisible Ocean World
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Cassie Martin Tara Oceans, an international consortium of researchers that explored the world’s oceans in hopes of learning more about one of its smallest inhabitants, reported their initial findings this week in a...
May 23 2015
Study: Ocean Currents Change with Seasons
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Cassie Martin The strength of ocean currents change with the seasons, which have implications for both ocean life and climate according to a new MIT study.***As the seasons change, so too does the strength of ocean...
May 22 2015
PAOC Students Recognized for Excellence
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Cassie Martin Four students in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC) received awards for excellence in research and teaching at the 2015 EAPS Student Awards Dinner.Casey Hilgenbrink (’15), who grad...
May 11 2015
4 Questions with David Battisti on El Niño and Climate Variability
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Cassie Martin Atmospheric Scientist David Battisti discusses the double El Niño phenomenon and what it does and doesn’t tell us about climate change. ***This year’s spring Houghton Lecturer is David Battisti, ...
May 4 2015
Diving into Ocean Science at the 2015 Cambridge Science Festival
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Cassie Martin Just in time for Earth Day, Oceans at MIT was thrilled to participate in the Cambridge Science Festival Ocean’s Day hosted April 23, 2015 at the MIT Museum. ***Cambridge is a hub for science...
December 11 2024
Aerosols Threaten Water Resources in Asia Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change MIT study underscores growing concern
April 27 2015
Costa Christopoulos Named 2015 NOAA Hollings Scholar
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Cassie Martin EAPS undergraduate student Costa Christopoulos recently won a NOAA Scholarship that will support his passion for atmospheric science. Read more about the award and Christopoulos' research here. *...
April 20 2015
A Model Year for Climate Change
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Cassie Martin Climate expert Jochem Marotzke tackles the discrepancy between climate models and real-world observations of global temperature in the 15th Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture.***Earlier this yea...
March 16 2015
Boston Sets New Snow Record
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Cassie Martin Near the end of one of the most brutal winters on record, Boston finally surpassed those 107.6 inches of snow recorded during the winter of 1995-1996, giving residents something to celebrate.***With n...
March 9 2015
Aditi Sheshadri Wins AMS Award
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Cassie Martin MIT graduate student Aditi Sheshadri's research on the impacts of stratospheric warming events on the lower atmosphere garnered her an award at the American Meteorological Society's 18th Conference on...
March 6 2015
The Science behind Boston's Record-Setting Winter of 2015
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Cassie Martin The winter of 2015 will likely become the snowiest Boston has ever seen. MIT Meteorologist Lodovica Illari shares her thoughts on the science behind these extreme weather events and what caused them.*...
February 26 2015
Oceans in a Warming World: 3 Questions with John Marshall
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Cassie Martin How do oceans affect climate, and vice versa? EAPS Professor of Oceanography John Marshall answers those questions and more in his talk Oceans in a Warming World. ***John Marshall, the Cecil and ...
February 4 2015
Jörn Callies Wins AGU Award
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Cassie Martin MIT-WHOI graduate student Jörn Callies' research on atmospheric and oceanic wave fluctuations garnered him an award at the recent American Geophysical Union Conference—the largest worldwide confe...
January 20 2015
Science Storytelling: 42⁰ North
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Cassie Martin Award-winning documentary filmmaker Dena Seidel uses art to communicate science. We sat down with Seidel during her visit to MIT to ask her a few questions about earth and ocean science filmmaking.***...
December 22 2014
Life on an Aquaplanet
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Jennifer Chu/MIT News MIT News has a feature story explaining newly published research from scientists in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) that explores the idea of extraterrestrial o...
December 9 2014
Small volcanoes make a dent in global warming
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MIT News New research shows that relatively small volcanic eruptions can increase aerosol particles in the atmosphere, temporarily mitigating the global warming caused by greenhouse gases. The impact of such s...
November 30 2014
Climate Feedback: Improving Media Coverage of Climate Science
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Genevieve Wanucha Emmanuel Vincent has launched Climate Feedback, a new web-based initiative to improve the accuracy of climate science reporting in the media. The first experiment with the method evaluated a recent ar...
November 10 2014
The Missing Piece of the Climate Puzzle
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Genevieve Wanucha Learn about what happened when MIT researchers set their minds to figuring out why climate models generate a finding seemingly at odds with our basic understanding of global warming.***In classrooms a...
October 24 2014
Geophysicist Peter Molnar Takes Down a Popular Scientific Theory at the Lorenz Center's John Carlson Lecture
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Genevieve Wanucha Peter Molnar, professor of geological sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder, presented “Big Cats, Panamá, and Armadillos: A Story of Climate and Life" at the 2014 John Carlson Lecture...