The 2012 PAOC retreat was held at the Red Jacket Resort in South Yarmouth, MA, on beautiful Cape Cod over the weekend of October 12-14.The faculty, graduate students, post-docs and staff of MIT’s Prog...
Helen HillTemperatures in the Arctic region has been rising at approximately twice the global average rate in the past 100 years (Solomon et al., Technical Summary, IPCC 2007). To understand the effect of...
Checking-in with PAOC's Class of 2012:After staying on for several months as a postdoc, Ryan recently left MIT, heading west to Scripps where he has just started a postdoc position working with ...
Julio SepúlvedaFunded by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) – Global Seed Funds – Spain, members of the Summons’s group carried out a geological fieldtrip in northwestern Tunisia. This ...
Helen Hill Atmospheric Chemistry takes center stage in Atmospheric Chemistry Redux the lead article in the spring issue of the EAPS alumni newsletter, EAPSpeaks. With 3 new faculty in the the past year alo...
Helen Hill, For her Senior Thesis Deepa Rao has been working with graduate student Laura Meredith to understand the microbially-mediated soil H2 sink while fellow PAOC unergraduate Roman Kowch worked with Lodovic...
Helen HillMick Follows is a Senior Research Scientist in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, at MIT. Together with the other memb...
Lorenz CenterProfessor Leo Kadanoff spent the last two weeks at MIT as the Lorenz Center's First Visiting Scientist and Spring 2012 Houghton Lecture speaker. He was hosted by Professor Daniel Rothman and Kerry Ema...
May32012
New Postdoc
Helen HillRoger Summons' Group has a new postdoc
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.
Helen HillProfessor Colette Heald is interested in global atmospheric composition and chemistry, and interactions of these with the biosphere and climate system, including the study of both particles and gases ...
April192012
Facing the facts about our changing climate
Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeKerry Emanuel among participants in a Boston Globe panel in weighing climate risks and resolutions.
Exploring Planets for Signs of Life
P.R.I. Public Radio International & web.mit.edu/physics"Life metabolizes, life puts out gases, some of those gases are bio-signatures". Sara Seager on the search for extrasolar life.
April102012
The Coldest March
Heather Queyrouze, EAPSA review of last Friday's inaugural EAPS author night
April102012
Teaching Award
Helen HillLodovica Illari to receive Dean's Education and Advising Award
Helen HillAs scientists we sometimes struggle to communicate what we do: Diagrams can quickly get complicated, equations morph into a tangle of inky Greek. This week a new vizualisation is proving that the "rig...
Since 2001, Lodovica Illari and John Marshall have worked to make rotating fluid dynamics more intuitive for undergraduate students studying weather and climate, using a demonstration aptly named ...
March212012
Water World
Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeIllari and Marshall's "Weather in a tank" demonstrations help students grasp fluid dynamics.
March62012
Cureforcymophobia
Joint Program chemical oceanograhy student Sarah Rosengard is currently blogging in the Indian Ocean
Rebecca Walsh Dell"On my first major research cruise, the ship was hit by a hurricane. On the second, the weather was even worse. In one particularly nasty storm, I remember standing braced on the ship's bridge late at...
A climate window in the Southern Ocean
Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeJohn Marshall and an updated circulation model revealing the Southern Ocean as a powerful influence on climate change
February232012
A PAOC Goodbye. A PAOC Hello.
Helen HillRoberta Allard takes over as interim program coordinator as Beth MacEachran moves to CSAIL.
China’s pollution puts a dent in its economy
Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeNew study co-authored by Noelle Selin says despite improvements in air quality, the economic impact of air pollution has increased dramatically.
February132012
‘Storm of the Century?’ Try ‘Storm of the Decade’
Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeNew study co-authored by Ning Lin and Kerry Emanuel says knowing the frequency of storm surges may help urban and coastal planners design seawalls and other protective structures.
Helen HillMicro-organisms have produced dramatic shifts in the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and continue to be important drivers of ocean- and land-atmosphere exchanges of gases that have a strong infl...
February62012
Tracking Toxic Chemicals in Oil Spills
Karin Lemkau in WHOI's Oceanus MagazineMIT-WHOI Joint Program student Karin Lemkau asks if out of sight means into the air or into fish?
On the Trail of Mercury in the Ocean
Kathleen Munson, MIT-WHOI Joint ProgramGrad student Kathleen Munson looks at where and how elemental mercury released from burning coal gets transformed into the toxic monomethylmercury that accumulates in fish?
Course 12.713 "Numerical Ocean Modeling" is a new hands-on course for developing computational models of oceanic processes such as transport (advection, diffusion), mixing and reaction (ecosystems) th...
The ability to quantify the uncertainty in our models of nature is fundamental to many inference problems in science and engineering. In this course, Ravela will lead a study of advanced methods to re...
Helen Hill This listing of papers authored by members of PAOC was created from the Expanded Science Citation Index which includes the following source publications. It does not include conference proceedin...
Helen HillDavid McGee's general interest is paleoclimatology. More specifically, he focusses on reconstructing past changes in extratropical atmospheric circulation and hydrology. He explores this area through ...
Helen Hill In this interview Prof. Solomon talks about her work and some of the things she is looking forward to at MIT. Susan Solomon is widely recognized as a leader in the field of atmospheri...
Helen Hill Get to know a little more about Researcher Matt Rigby and his work in this video interviewFor the past 4 years Matt Rigby, a member of the Prinn Group, has been a researcher in the Center ...
David Griffith, MIT-WHOI Joint ProgramEstrogens are a family of hormones that are essential for growth and development, and, notably, for determining whether you are a female or a male. Exposure to even small amounts of “extra” estrogen c...
Kim Popendorf, MIT-WHOI Joint ProgramMarine microorganisms are the chemists of the ocean, continually cycling carbon and other chemicals via the routine biochemical reactions they use to live and grow. MIT-WHOI graduate student Kim Popen...
Rachel Horwitz, MIT-WHOI Joint ProgramAnything travelling from the shoreline to the ocean and vice versa - water, fish larvae, sand, pollutants - must go through the shallow inner shelf, which connects the beach to the deep ocean. Writing...
Peter Dizikes for MIT's Technology ReviewCasual conversations among colleagues can prove surprisingly fruitful. Exerpted from an article by Peter Dizikes in Technology Review entitled "The Office Next Door", Dizikes shines a light on the eth...