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May 12 2017
Noelle Selin Awarded Tenure
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MIT IDSS

Congratulations to Noelle Selin, EAPS and IDSS professor and PAOC member, for her promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure by the Executive Committee of the Corporation.

April 27 2017
3Q: Refocusing Climate Research in a New Era
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Lauren Hinkel

A new perspective from climate researchers argues that there are three key questions that should frame future climate research.

April 26 2017
Leshner Leadership Fellow Noelle Selin Catalyzes Dialogue with Public, Policymakers
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Lauren Hinkel

MIT researcher helps bring scientific evidence into public decision-making

April 19 2017
New Potentially Habitable Planet Discovered
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Helen Hill | EAPS News

Potentially Habitable Super-Earth Identified as New Target for Atmospheric Study.

April 14 2017
MIT Quarter Century Club Welcomes New Members for 2017
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Richard L. Benford | Bonny S. Kellermann | Quarter Century Club

Class includes 99 new members from both the Cambridge campus and Lincoln Laboratory among them are PAOC's Michael Follows, Lodovica Illari and John Marshall.

April 12 2017
Kerry Emanuel Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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MIT News Office

Kerry A. Emanuel, the EAPS Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Co-Director of the Lorenz Center, joins the ranks of some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders in the academy.

April 7 2017
Stream Network Geometry Correlates with Climate
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Terri Cook | EOS

Work by Prof. Daniel H. Rothman and the MIT Lorenz Center's Hansjörg Seybold show that a "big data" analysis of nearly 1 million river junctions in the contiguous United States shows that branching angles in dendritic drainages vary systematically between humid and arid regions.

March 31 2017
Embrace Who You Are: One Latina Scientist’s Brave Journey in STEM
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Gabi Serrato Marks

MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Gabi Serrato Marks profiles her colleague, Gabriela Farfan, about her dream of becoming a mineralogist and her experiences with culture and identity along the way.

March 30 2017
Institute Award for the Love of Marine Chemistry
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Lauren Hinkel

MIT-WHOI student Lauren Kipp to receive a Graduate Teaching Award

March 28 2017
The Future of Forests Under Climate Change
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Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Study projects vast regional differences in forest productivity, migration and wildfire impacts

March 27 2017
Tiny Bacterium Provides Window into Whole Ecosystems
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David L. Chandler | MIT News Office

Ubiquitous marine organism has co-evolved with other microbes, promoting more complex ecosystems.

March 24 2017
Storied Women of MIT: Pauline Morrow Austin
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Meg Rosenburg/MIT Video Productions

Storied Women of MIT is a series of 60-second historical profiles of MIT students, researchers, and staff that demonstrates the role of women at the Institute from its founding to today.

March 16 2017
Climate Change to Worsen Drought, Diminish Corn Yields in Africa
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Over the next century, southern Africa will see widespread decreases in maize production.

March 13 2017
Preparing for Extremes
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J-WAFS News

How models can help agriculture adapt to climate change uncertainties. The concern around climate change has scientists focusing their attention on regions around the world that are expected to be particularly hard hit.

March 8 2017
MIT Faculty Working on Climate Write to President Trump
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PAOC Faculty

The MIT faculty in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate rebut Prof. Linzden’s letter urging the US administration to withdraw from the UN climate convention.

March 6 2017
Study Suggests Complex Life was Present on Earth 2.33 Billion Years Ago
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

New estimate predates earliest fossil evidence by 800 million years.

March 6 2017
Underwater Mountains Help Ocean Water Rise from Abyss
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Turbulence from seafloor topography may explain longstanding question about ocean circulation.

February 23 2017
Climate@MIT
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Lauren Hinkel

A new online publication from MIT reports on exciting climate science research at MIT. We focus on climate as a fundamental science, but occasionally comment on climate action and policy at MIT and climate research occurring elsewhere.

February 22 2017
Lucky Seven: 3Q with Julien de Wit on the discovery of seven temperate, nearby worlds
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Planets may harbor conditions suitable for sustaining liquid water — and thus life.

February 20 2017
PAOC Faculty Promotions
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Lauren Hinkel

Congratulations to Michael Follows and David McGee for their recent promotions, recognizing their achievements and contributions to the department.Effective July 2017, Michael Follows will become a Fu...

February 17 2017
Getting Their Hands Dirty: Students Experience Fieldwork in Hawaii
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Carolyn Schmitt | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

TREX program offers undergraduates the opportunity to get out in the field.

February 14 2017
The Heart of a Far-off Star Beats for its Planet
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office

Scientists observe first planet-induced stellar pulsations. For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet.The star, which ...

February 10 2017
Modeling the Unequal Benefits of U.S. Environmental Policy
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Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

New toolset evaluates economic impacts of ozone reduction policies for nine income groups One of the two top air pollutants in the U.S., ground-level ozone is harmful not only to your health but ...

February 7 2017
Aerocene Soars at the 47th World Economic Forum Meeting
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Lauren Hinkel

Climate-conscious sculptures influence world perspectives in Davos- Klosters, Switzerland.Aerocene, an artistic project developed by Tomás Saraceno and the Aerocene Foundation, has been collaborating ...

February 1 2017
Atmospheres, Oceans and Planetary Studies on Display at AGU
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Lauren Hinkel

Over the week of December 12th, members of MIT’s PAOC attended the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 49th annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco.The event is the world’s largest Earth and space science...

July 2 2012
Clouds over Karlsruhe Sarvesh Garimella Graduate student Sarvesh Garimella blogging from Germany
June 27 2012
Lead from gasoline discovered in Indian Ocean Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Ed Boyle talks to MIT News about his work tracing lead in the ocean
June 19 2012
E25 welcomes interim administrator The Boyle, McGee and Summons Groups have a new AA
June 18 2012
New Students PAOC is happy to announce that fourteen new students will join us in the fall.
June 18 2012
Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Adam Schlosser co-author on an NREL-MIT study showing an 80 percent renewable energy standard cuts water use in half.
June 6 2012
Congratulations PAOC Graduates PAOC graduates degree listings
May 31 2012
Scientists Discover the "Vitamin B12 Claw" Oceanus Magazine, WHOI Graduating doctoral student Erin Bertrand and co-authors and a newfound protein is key for algae growth in the ocean
May 31 2012
Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question? Cambridge Science Festival If you missed the Cambridge Science Festival "Rivers of Ice: What's Your Question?" panel last month here is a video of the event.
May 22 2012
Illari receives education and advising award Helen Hill Dr. 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
May 8 2012
First light from a super-Earth spotted Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Sara Seager and postdoc Brice-Olivier Demory report finding a searing planet
May 8 2012
Kadanoff "makes a Splash" Lorenz Center The Lorenz Center's first Visiting Scientist Leo Kadanoff gives Houghton Lectures
May 3 2012
New Postdoc Helen Hill Roger Summons' Group has a new postdoc
May 2 2012
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye... Helen Hill Postdocs Ben Ward and Pierre Rampal head to Europe/ Scandinavia
April 26 2012
Communicating the Climate Challenge Vicki Ekstrom, JPSPGC for MIT News Watch again as New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at PAOC co-sponsored Earth Day colloquium.
April 26 2012
Congratulations Dr. Horwitz PAOC congratulates newest doctoral grauate Rachel Horwitz
April 24 2012
Talkback 360 Visualizing Science: The Changing Arctic Ice MIT Museum - TechTV If you missed the recent arctic ice event at the MIT Museum, it's on techTV
April 23 2012
Grad Student Award Helen Hill Dan Chavas wins prize for best student paper
April 19 2012
Facing the facts about our changing climate Vicki Ekstrom, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Kerry Emanuel among participants in a Boston Globe panel in weighing climate risks and resolutions.
April 17 2012
Congratulations Dr. Lemkau PAOC congratulates newest doctoral grauate Karin Lemkau.
April 12 2012
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.
April 10 2012
The Coldest March Heather Queyrouze, EAPS A review of last Friday's inaugural EAPS author night
April 10 2012
Teaching Award Helen Hill Lodovica Illari to receive Dean's Education and Advising Award
April 1 2012
New membership co-ordinator Ed Halligan takes over from Roberta Allard as PAOC program co-ordinator.
March 30 2012
Perpetual Ocean Goes Viral MITgcm News MITgcm at the heart of compelling new ocean visualizations
March 21 2012
Water World Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office Illari and Marshall's "Weather in a tank" demonstrations help students grasp fluid dynamics.