Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeImproved air quality could prevent nearly 2,000 premature deaths in the U.S.
Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionAgency 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.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsMIT has completed the installation of its newest exoplanet-hunting telescope, Artemis, in the Canary Islands, joining the SPECULOOS network.
Eva Frederick, Karina Hinojosa, Devi Lockwood, Gina Vitale | MIT Graduate Program in Science WritingEAPS oceanographers model how climate change will affect phytoplankton, a crucial component of the global ecosystem.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsA pioneer in theoretical meteorology, Phillips demonstrated that numerical models could predict the weather and developed the first general circulation model of Earth’s climate.
Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and ClimateA recent study authored by Gael Forget demonstrates the overwhelming predominance of the tropical Pacific on global ocean heat transport.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsEAPS graduate students Christina Hernandez, Gabriela Serrato Marks, and Maya Stokes honored for their leadership, contributions to the institute, and outstanding accomplishment.
Hannah Piecuch | Oceanus MagazineA 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.
Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and ClimateThe MIT-Imperial Academic Exchange offers undergraduates like Matthew Cotton a chance to expand their cultural and scientific interests.
TILclimateScientists predict that hurricanes will hit us harder in the future—but why? Kerry Emanuel breaks down the science in this episode of #TILclimate.
Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and ClimateIn honor of Women’s History Month, three prominent female scientists who made departmental history.
Witze Receives 2016 AGU Journalism Award
AGUAlexandra 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.
November212016
Climate Change: Ethics in Action
Lauren HinkelAt forum, MIT community tackles tough ethical questions of climate change and motivations for effective action
AGU Should Sever Its Ties with ExxonMobil
Michael E. Mann, Naomi Oreskes, and Kerry A. EmanuelAGU 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.
Back to the Thesis
Lauren HinkelHow Astrophysicist Sara Seager's PhD work founded the field of exoplanet study
June282016
The Perfect Planet
Lauren HinkelPlanetary scientist Sara Seager argues that the concept of exoplanets' "habitable zone" isn't helpful anymore
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Getting Back into Nuclear
Chris Mooney | Washington PostIt’s the first new U.S. nuclear reactor in decades. And climate change has made that a very big deal.
Congratulations to EAPS Class of 2016
MIT's Education OfficeDegrees awarded during the 2015/2016 academic year. Degrees are conferred in September, February and June
June92016
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.
Rossby: Tapping into the Stratosphere
Lauren HinkelHow a collaboration between Carl Rossby and MIT researchers launched a weather balloon and the study of meteorology in the US.