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December 11 2019
Assessing changes and risks to the oceans, land and atmosphere
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Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change MIT Joint Program researchers to present latest findings at AGU Fall Meeting
December 10 2019
Historical Climate Models Accurately Projected Global Warming
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Henri Drake | EAPS News New research from MIT EAPS scientists explores the accuracy of models’ climate physics and their relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and temperature rise.
December 4 2019
Whales May Owe Their Efficient Digestion to Millions of Tiny Microbes
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Henry Holm coauthors study showing how whales are able to break down high-energy molecules in their food that other animals have difficulty with.
November 25 2019
Red Sea ‘Hotspot’ Study Reveals Behaviors of Whale Sharks
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution MIT-WHOI JP graduate student Camrin D. Braun PhD '19 coauthors study tracks aggregation behaviors of whale sharks, an endangered species, in the Red Sea.
November 25 2019
Relating Marine Picoplankton Cell Size and Metabolism
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Helen Hill | CBIOMES CBIOMES and EAPS postdoctoral fellow John Casey is a microbial oceanographer, who combines observations, experimental approaches, and computational methods to better understand the diversity of metabolic and physiological designs that influence biogeochemical cycles.
November 22 2019
Oceanographic Instrument Development, a First Step to Exploring the Unexplored
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Kalina C. Grabb | WHOI Broader Impacts Group MIT-WHOI graduate student Kalina Grabb describes what it's like to design and test the first submersible instrument able to measure superoxide within shallow water aquatic environments affecting coral reefs, algal blooms, and deep-sea processes.
November 22 2019
Renewable Energy and Carbon Pricing Policies
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Nancy W. Stauffer | MIT Energy Initiative State-level adoption saves money and lives.
November 19 2019
A Focus on Fronts
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Christopher Follett | CBIOMES Chris Follett, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Postdoctoral Fellow and CBIOMES member, is working closely with other project investigators as he seeks to unify data and models through biogeography.
November 19 2019
Ring by Carbon Ring
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Fatima Husain | EAPS News A collaboration of current and former EAPS researchers reveals the genes and proteins controlling the chemical structure of paleoclimate biomarker (GDGT), enabling it to cyclize in response to temperature changes.
November 18 2019
Continuing a Legacy of Antarctic Exploration
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Fatima Husain | EAPS News EAPS Summons Lab examines lipids from Antarctic microbial communities to understand the evolution of complex life on Earth and life that existed during "snowball Earth."
November 14 2019
EAPS Features at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News This year, from December 9-13th, roughly 24,000 members are set to attend and experience nearly 2,000 oral and poster sessions in San Francisco, CA.
November 4 2019
A Century of Progress in Atmospheric and Related Sciences: Celebrating the American Meteorological Society Centennial
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American Meteorological Society EAPS scientists and MIT alumni add to AMS meteorological monograph tribute to the past century of innovation within our community and a source of inspiration for the scientists and researchers still to come.
November 1 2019
In the Blue Holes of the Bahamas, Secrets of Hurricanes Past
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Katherine Kornei | New York Times Science Scientists assembled a 1,500-year history of big storm activity by retrieving sediment from the island country’s submarine caverns.
October 28 2019
Fall 2019 MESO-SCOPE Meeting
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Helen Hill | MIT Darwin Project Members of the MIT Darwin project hosted Benedetto Barone (U Hawaii) and Kate Evans (U Montana) for a week of face-to-face collaboration focused on advancing theory and modeling efforts geared towards exploring mesoscale and submesoscale marine ecological structure in the Subtropical North Pacific.
October 24 2019
The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole
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Susan Solomon | Nature The unexpected discovery of a hole in the atmospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic revolutionized science — and helped to establish one of the most successful global environmental policies of the twentieth century.
October 22 2019
A Workshop on Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport
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Darius Collazo | MIT On Monday, June 10th, the EAPS department held a workshop on Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport in honor of Prof. Emertius R. Alan Plumb
October 21 2019
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Study finds even the tallest ice cliffs should support their own weight rather than collapsing catastrophically.
October 11 2019
Experts urge “full speed ahead” on climate action
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David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Panelists at MIT climate change symposium describe the state of knowledge in climate science and stress the urgent need for action.
October 9 2019
The 2019 PAOC Retreat: Jiminy Peak
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Daisy M Cabán & Martín Velez Pardo | MIT This year’s annual PAOC retreat had students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff from MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences escape to Jiminy Peak in Hancock, MA for a weekend event of science and socializing.
October 3 2019
President Reif speaks at MIT Climate Symposium
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MIT News Office President L. Rafael Reif delivered the below introductory remarks at today’s “Progress in Climate Science” symposium.
September 30 2019
DEAPS: Understanding Extreme Weather and Climate, from Top to Bottom
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News The Discovering EAPS (DEAPS) Pre-orientation Program (FPOP) Extreme Weather and Climate immerses 2019 first year students in the geosciences at all scales.
September 25 2019
In the 1980s, the World Acted to Save the Ozone Layer. Here's Why the Fight Against Climate Change Is Different
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Olivia B. Waxman | TIME Magazine In 1986 and ’87, Susan Solomon, Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies in MIT's EAPS, led expeditions to Antarctica to determine the cause of the ozone hole: CFCs.
September 11 2019
Computing in Earth Science: a Non-linear Path
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Laura Carter | School of Science UROP student Sonia Reilly studies the math of machine learning to better predict natural disasters.
September 5 2019
How a Volcanic Eruption Set Off a Phytoplankton Bloom
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Robin George Andrews | The New York Times Science Lava from Kilauea in Hawaii flowed into the Pacific last year and pushed nutrients to the surface. The result was a banquet for light-loving microbes.
August 29 2019
Bacteria Feeding on Arctic Algae Blooms can Seed Clouds
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Abigail Eisenstadt | AGU A new study co-authored by EAPS graduate student Astrid Pacini finds that bacteria normally found near the sea floor was present in the air above the ocean surface, suggesting ocean currents and turmoil help make the bacteria airborne.
April 27 2017
Exploring our Oceans: The Cross-talk between Marine Life and Climate Change Harvard's SIT’N Listen Podcast Harvard's SIT'N Listen Podcast speaks with MIT and WHOI graduate students Gabriela Farfan and Hanny Rivera about how studying oceans and marine biodiversity can help us better understand and combat climate change.
April 20 2017
March for Science on Saturday — get off sidelines, make a difference Lauren Hinkel Noelle Held, a PhD candidate in chemical oceanography at MIT and WHOI, discusses why she's proud to be part of a long history of American scientists and pioneers, and why it's important to continue supporting science, particularly this weekend.
April 11 2017
Environmentalist and Explorer Kate Telma | MIT News correspondent Senior Elizabeth Rider uses atmospheric chemistry research on aerosols with Prof. Dan Cziczo and Noelle Selin to create international connections.
April 5 2017
ES&T’s Best Papers of 2016 Lauren Hinkel Selin’s “Costs of IQ Loss from Leaded Aviation Gasoline Emissions” takes Top Paper in Environmental Policy for 2016.
March 24 2017
How Climate Change Covered China in Smog Lauren Hinkel Air quality in Beijing has a lot to do with snowstorms in Siberia. Associate Professor Noelle Selin comments on how local weather can influence global air pollution in The Atlantic.
March 21 2017
Volcanic Eruption Expanded Ozone Hole to Record Size Lauren Hinkel New research supports previous MIT findings that a volcanic eruption expanded Antarctica's ozone hole in 2015.
March 20 2017
Standing Out in Earth and Planetary Sciences Lauren Hinkel PAOC postdoc Daniel D. B. Koll receives an award for his poster presented at the 49th Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
March 20 2017
World’s Lakes May be Much Shallower than Previously Thought EAPS News New mathematical analysis from MIT provides more accurate estimate of the depth and volume of the Earth's lakes, Adrian Cho of Science Magazine reports.
March 15 2017
Media Lab Sets Sights on Space Margaret Evans | MIT Media Lab MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier.
March 15 2017
Plankton can save the ocean. But who will save the plankton? Lauren Hinkel Principal Research Scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz weighs in on geoengineering the ocean's phytoplankton to curb the symptoms of climate change.
March 14 2017
Commercial Space: Can We Privatize Our Way to the Stars? Rob Matheson | MIT News Office Can we privatize our way to the stars? Annual conference explores the rise and distant future of the private space industry. PAOC postdoc Julien de Wit contributes to Beyond the Cradle.
March 8 2017
MIT rates No. 1 in 12 Subjects in 2017 QS World University Rankings Stephanie Eich | Resource Development MIT ranked within the top 5 for 19 of 46 subject areas.
March 8 2017
William Martin Gift to Enable Aerosol Study at Mount Washington Observatory Angela Ellis | EAPS Development Office A generous gift to the Cziczo group enables them to deploy state-of-the-art aerosol and cloud instrumentation to the Mount Washington Observatory in New England.
March 8 2017
PAOC Faculty Fact-Check MIT Colleague on Climate Science Lauren Hinkel PAOC rebuts MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen's climate science claims in an open letter to President Trump.
March 3 2017
School of Science Welcomes Five New Professors This Spring Bendta Schroeder | School of Science Andrew Babbin, a marine biogeochemist working on the nitrogen cycle, joins the PAOC faculty.
March 3 2017
New Worlds, New Discoveries EAPS News Drs. Gillon and de Wit speak about their discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a nearby star just 39 light years from Earth.
February 20 2017
Climate science and policy: Now more than ever! Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change As new administration takes office, Joint Program IAP courses explore what’s at stake.
February 9 2017
PAOC's Dara Entekhabi Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Lauren Hinkel Selection to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest distinctions bestowed upon an engineer
February 8 2017
Happy Birthday to the Father of Modern Dynamical Meteorology Lauren Hinkel MIT remembers Jule Gregory Charney, a leader in numerical weather prediction, and a former MIT professor, on his 100th birthday.
February 6 2017
Faculty Promotions Helen Hill | EAPS News The Executive Committee of the Corporation has approved the promotion of Michael Follows to Full Professor and David McGee to Associate Professor (effective July 2017.)
February 1 2017
Water Scarcity, Air Pollution and Climate Change Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Several MIT PAOC and Joint Program research affiliates share findings at the American Geophysical Union’s 2016 Fall Meeting
February 1 2017
Signs of Alien Air Herald a New Era of Exoplanet Discoveries Lauren Hinkel PAOC's Seager and de Wit comment on a new exoplanet finding
February 1 2017
Preparing for Extremes Lauren Hinkel How Models Can Help Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change Uncertainties
February 1 2017
U.S. Crop Harvests Could Suffer with Climate Change Lauren Hinkel PAOC Principal Research Scientist Erwan Monier comments
February 1 2017
Quadrennial Ozone Symposium 2016 Lauren Hinkel Solomon and Gilford present ozone research