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August 2 2019
A Tunnel to the Twilight Zone
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Evan Lubofsky | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Blue sharks ride deep-swirling currents to the ocean’s midwater at mealtime
July 24 2019
Tuna are Spawning in Marine Protected Areas
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Despite being highly migratory, tuna may benefit from ocean sanctuaries, study finds.
July 22 2019
Health Effects of China’s Climate Policy Extend Across Pacific
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Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Improved air quality could prevent nearly 2,000 premature deaths in the U.S.
July 8 2019
Breaching a “Carbon Threshold” Could Lead to Mass Extinction
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences, study finds.
July 3 2019
The Wolf of Washington
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Martin Wolf | EAPS News EAPS graduate student Martin Wolf advocates for science policy in Washington, D.C.
June 25 2019
Charting Uncharted Territory
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CBIOMES With the Follows group, CBIOMES makes new connections to fill in the knowledge gaps in ocean biogeochemistry.
June 24 2019
NASA Makes Dual Investment in Ocean Worlds Research at WHOI
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Agency funds five-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for Ocean Worlds. Collaborator EAPS professor and oceanographer John Marshall is working with the team looking at ice moons.
June 20 2019
Julien de Wit on Searching for Red Worlds in the Northern Skies
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News MIT has completed the installation of its newest exoplanet-hunting telescope, Artemis, in the Canary Islands, joining the SPECULOOS network.
June 14 2019
Congratulations to EAPS Class of 2019
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EAPS Education Office Degrees awarded during the 2018/2019 academic year. Degrees are conferred in September, February and June.
June 12 2019
An Escape Route for Carbon
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Study shows minerals sequester carbon for thousands of years, which may explain oxygen’s abundance in the atmosphere.
June 10 2019
The Story of a Numerical Modeler Wandering into the Arctic
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Mukund Gupta | MIT Graduate Admissions EAPS graduate student Mukund Gupta takes to the seas.
May 23 2019
The Color of Climate Change
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Eva Frederick, Karina Hinojosa, Devi Lockwood, Gina Vitale | MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing EAPS oceanographers model how climate change will affect phytoplankton, a crucial component of the global ecosystem.
May 10 2019
Norman A. Phillips, former meteorology department head, dies at 95
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News A pioneer in theoretical meteorology, Phillips demonstrated that numerical models could predict the weather and developed the first general circulation model of Earth’s climate.
May 3 2019
Tropical Pacific is the major player in global ocean heat transport
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Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate A recent study authored by Gael Forget demonstrates the overwhelming predominance of the tropical Pacific on global ocean heat transport.
April 30 2019
Celebrating Graduate Women of Excellence
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News EAPS graduate students Christina Hernandez, Gabriela Serrato Marks, and Maya Stokes honored for their leadership, contributions to the institute, and outstanding accomplishment.
April 29 2019
Study: For Low-Income Countries, Climate Action Pays Off by 2050
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IFPRI / MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Economic benefits of mitigation arrive much sooner than previously thought.
April 23 2019
Tracking Radium in the Arctic
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Hannah Piecuch | Oceanus Magazine A conversation with Jessica Dabrowski, second-year graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, who recently travelled to the Arctic to study the impact of climate change.
April 21 2019
A Steward for Ocean Research and Climate Health
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News Raffaele Ferrari honored with School of Science Ally of Nature Fund Award.
April 15 2019
TESS Discovers its First Earth-Sized Planet
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Orbiting a nearby star, the new planet is the smallest identified so far by the TESS mission.
April 12 2019
Earliest Life may have Arisen in Ponds, not Oceans
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Study finds shallow bodies of water were probably more suitable for Earth’s first life forms.
April 12 2019
In Exchange of Ideas
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Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate The MIT-Imperial Academic Exchange offers undergraduates like Matthew Cotton a chance to expand their cultural and scientific interests.
April 3 2019
Podcast: Kerry Emanuel on the science of hurricanes
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TILclimate Scientists predict that hurricanes will hit us harder in the future—but why? Kerry Emanuel breaks down the science in this episode of #TILclimate.
April 1 2019
Lighting up Exoplanets
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News The Heising-Simons Foundation selects Clara Sousa-Silva and Benjamin Rackham for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships at MIT.
April 1 2019
Babbin, Rothman, Bosak, and Woosley Awarded mTerra Catalyst Funding
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Brandon Milardo | EAPS News PAOC members forge new pathways in oceanic and atmospheric research.
March 27 2019
Leading The Way
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Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate In honor of Women’s History Month, three prominent female scientists who made departmental history.
February 1 2017
Capital Weather Gang Scientists react to Earth’s warmest year: ‘We are heading into a new unknown’ Lauren Hinkel Emanuel reacts to report that 2016 was the third warmest year on recorded history
January 20 2017
Witze Receives 2016 AGU Journalism Award AGU Alexandra Witze XII BS '92 received the 2016 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–News at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony.
November 21 2016
Climate Change: Ethics in Action Lauren Hinkel At forum, MIT community tackles tough ethical questions of climate change and motivations for effective action
November 17 2016
Predicting and Adapting to Increased Hurricane Risk Lauren Hinkel Kerry Emanuel shares why hurricanes will likely become more destructive and offers ways to mitigate these increased risks
November 3 2016
Tackling Questions of Ocean Physics with MIT Oceanographer Raffaele Ferrari Lauren Hinkel Understanding ocean circulation, its climate impact, & how it shapes biological productivity
October 28 2016
Seven new faculty members join the School of Science this fall School of Science Climate Physicist Timothy Cronin joins PAOC faculty
October 27 2016
The Climate Context of Hurricane Matthew Lauren Hinkel Kerry Emanuel speaks with Warm Regards about one of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history
October 27 2016
AGU Should Sever Its Ties with ExxonMobil Michael E. Mann, Naomi Oreskes, and Kerry A. Emanuel AGU and its funders should be held to the same standards of evidence-based scrutiny that it expects of the scientists who publish in its own journals.
September 23 2016
Eight School of Science faculty appointed to named professorships Bendta Schroeder | School of Science Raffaele Ferrari named the Cecil and Ida Green Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
September 16 2016
Giant algal bloom sheds light on formation of White Cliffs of Dover Lauren Hinkel A great algae bloom at the bottom of the world is teaching scientists more about how an iconic symbol of the United Kingdom came to be.
August 8 2016
Monsoon Intensity Enhanced by Heat Captured by Desert Dust Phys.org Postdoc Qinjian Jin finds variations in the ability of heat-absorbing atmospheric sand particles from Middle Eastern deserts can intensify the Indian Summer Monsoons
July 29 2016
CEE Announces New Leadership Appointments MIT News Colette Heald to Serve as CEE Associate Department Head
July 6 2016
Back to the Thesis Lauren Hinkel How Astrophysicist Sara Seager's PhD work founded the field of exoplanet study
June 28 2016
The Perfect Planet Lauren Hinkel Planetary scientist Sara Seager argues that the concept of exoplanets' "habitable zone" isn't helpful anymore
June 23 2016
Getting Back into Nuclear Chris Mooney | Washington Post It’s the first new U.S. nuclear reactor in decades. And climate change has made that a very big deal.
June 14 2016
Why This Hurricane Season is so Important to Scientists Brian K Sullivan | Bloomberg Determining the underlying drivers of Atlantic ocean temperatures and their effect on hurricane activity
June 9 2016
Happy Birthday to the Father of Chaos Theory EAPS News MIT EAPS professor Kerry Emanuel remembers a mentor of his, Edward Lorenz
June 9 2016
Congratulations to EAPS Class of 2016 MIT's Education Office Degrees awarded during the 2015/2016 academic year. Degrees are conferred in September, February and June
June 9 2016
Digital Ocean Ari Daniel PhD '08 | MIT Spectrum Modeling the diverse world of phytoplankton opens up a predictive view of our own. MIT’s Spectrum Magazine spotlight’s the Darwin Project.
May 19 2016
Shell Looks for a Hedge Against Climate Change Geoffrey Smith | Fortune Shell cites MIT climate research as an incentive to push for net-zero emissions energy, Fortune reports.
May 6 2016
Scientists discover potentially habitable planets Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Just 40 light years from Earth, planets are best targets so far for search for extraterrestrial life.
May 6 2016
Life's a Gas Helen Hill | EAPS MIT Scientists Compile List of Potential Gases to Guide Search for Life on Exoplanets
April 28 2016
Oceans Alive!: Trawling in the Charles Lauren Hinkel Trawling in the Charles River brings MIT postdocs closer to the organisms they model
April 25 2016
How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make? Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change MIT study projects end-of-century climate under different scenarios.
April 20 2016
Rossby: Tapping into the Stratosphere Lauren Hinkel How a collaboration between Carl Rossby and MIT researchers launched a weather balloon and the study of meteorology in the US.