Helen HillGraduate student Renyu Hu is interested in a range of planetary science problems from characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces to analyzing Mars orbiter data.In this vid...
TechTVThe top of the world is warming. The ice cap is in retreat... What's happening? How do we know? Why does it matter? These were just some of the questions raised at last week's mini-conference 'Watchin...
Astrobiology MagazineProfessor of Geobiology Roger Summons talks to Astrobiology Magazine about his work with SAM, NASA's Sample Analysis at Mars Prioject. The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science i...
Predicting Climate in a Chaotic World: How Certain Can We Be?
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM, NOVember 1, 2012This year's John Carlson Lecture was given by Royal Society Professor of Climate Physics at UK...
Jennifer Chu for MIT News Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon finds hope in past environmental challenges.Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon finds hope in past environmental challenges.Read more at MIT News...
Oceans at MITThe surface of Greenland’s interior ice sheet experienced a period of extreme melting for several days during July, 2012. Oceans at MIT sat down with Patrick Heimbach, to discuss the ice melt event.Re...
Microbe MagazineWhen used properly, models provide valuable insights into complex systems and sometimes yield surprising, even counterintuitive outcomes. Darwin Project researcher Stephanie Dutkiewicz explains her gr...
Allison WingThe program began on Wednesday, August 22 with a lunch at which the participants were given an introduction to the activities planned for the next few days, and also got to meet several EAPS faculty. ...
Vicki Ekstrom for JPSPGCNoelle Selin and Carey Friedman have built a model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments. Read more at MIT News...
Jennifer Chu for MIT NewsGlobal warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. A new study authored by Paul O'Gorman provides an estimate based on...
Oceans at MITJohn Marshall and the Oceans at MIT team, pull together all things "ocean" to create a new cross-campus website. Immerse yourself in this new resource for what is going on at MIT and within the MIT-WH...
Jennifer Chu for MIT NewsUnderstanding the rate at which leaves decay can help scientists predict the global flux of carbon dioxide, and develop better models for climate change. A new mathematical model from postdoc Dav...
Genevieve Wanucha for Oceans at MIT Ed Boyle’s research group works on trace metals and trace metal isotope ratios in the oceans, estuaries, rivers, and ice cores. In this Oceans at MIT article, you can read about the team's involvemen...
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...
May222012
Illari receives education and advising award
Helen HillDr. Illari was joined by several of her students at last Thursday's presentation ceremony where she received an Education and Advising Award from the School of Science
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.
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?