Helen Hill How to Spot a Mass Extinction Event Funded by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) – Global Seed Funds – Spain, members of the Summons’ group carried out a...
alum.mit.eduOn a mountaintop in Rwanda, Katherine Potter is helping to put Africa on the climate change grid. She is Katherine Potter PhD ’11, the principal investigator for the new Rwanda Climate Observatory. Wo...
Physics TodayFifty years have passed since Edward Lorenz published his discovery of the surprising behavior we now know as chaos. With a simple, three-equation weather model, Lorenz demonstrated that even ful...
Oceans at MITAtmospheric chemist and climate scientist Ron Prinn discusses the real issues around 400 ppm of atmospheric CO₂.Read this story at Oceans at MITWhat is so significant about this 400-ppm reading?T...
The Weather ChannelGrad student Vince Agard recently met with a film crew from the Weather Channel. Here he is, explaining how the Earth's rotation contributes to severe weather......
Helen Hill Chris Hill's work centers on how digital computing technology in its broadest sense applies to Earth science and especially the ocean. Computing in general has a long and proud history ...
Oceans at MIT goes to the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival... Ocean scientists from MIT’s Program in Oceans, Atmospheres, and Climate as well as EAPS department undergraduates headed over to th...
Jennifer Chu for MIT News As recently as 5,000 years ago, the Sahara — today a vast desert in northern Africa, spanning more than 3.5 million square miles — was a verdant landscape, with sprawling vegetation and numerous...
MIT Alumni AssociationIn this Faculty Forum Online broadcast, Professor Kerry Emanuel ’76, PhD ’78 discussed a new approach to climate science that emphasizes basic understanding over black box simulation. R...
MIT Alumni AssociationIn this recent Faculty Forum broadcast event, Dan Cziczo set out to answer what happens when particles in the atmosphere, especially manufactured ones, interact with water vapor and temperature to for...
Atmospheric chemist, Susan Solomon, who led efforts to identify the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole and a French geochemist who extracted the longest-yet climate record from polar ice cores hav...
Martin Burch, for Oceanus Magazine, WHOIMIT WHOI Joint Program graduate student Meagan Gonneea is a chemical oceanographer interested in groundwater. Groundwater that enters the coastal ocean from underground aquifers carries nutrients and ...
Genevieve Wanucha for Oceans at MITDIMES researchers hope that their data on ocean mixing may provide the missing ingredients to ocean climate models... which can then be used to understand past climates, as well as make projections ab...
Jennifer Chu, MIT News OfficeIn this MIT News video, Patrick Heimbach describes his work and the discovery of a feedback between sea ice and ocean that has helped improve Arctic ice extent forecasting.The simulation was conducted...
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...
New Students
PAOC is happy to announce that fourteen new students will join us in the fall.
June182012
Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water
Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeAdam Schlosser co-author on an NREL-MIT study showing an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.
Scientists Discover the "Vitamin B12 Claw"
Oceanus Magazine, WHOIGraduating doctoral student Erin Bertrand and co-authors and a newfound protein is key for algae growth in the ocean
May312012
Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question?
Cambridge Science FestivalIf you missed the Cambridge Science Festival "Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question?" panel last month here is a video of the event.
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
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.
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