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.
Kelsey Tsipis | Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and ClimateIn his 20s, Janni Yuval sailed across the Pacific. Today, his research focuses on using data-driven approaches to build better, ‘smarter’ climate models.
October42017
Brokering International Climate Deals
ClimateXIn a new episode of ClimateX's Climate Conversations, Associate Professor Noelle Selin explains the complexities of international climate agreements, including the impact of social media, as well as the importance of integrating of government, policy and science when studying the environment.
Back to School 2017
EAPS NewsMIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences welcomes 28 new graduate students. Sixteen join the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate.
September12017
ClimateX: How Climate Puzzles of the Past Point us to the Future
MIT’s ClimateXPaleoclimatologist and EAPS Associate Professor David McGee speaks with ClimateX about tracking Earth's climate changes in the last half million years, our dependence upon climate stability and David’s role in Terrascope.
August42017
New dinosaur is the largest animal with countershading camouflage
Lauren HinkelResearch from Roger Summons and others examines an exceptionally preserved nodosaurid ankylosaur dinosaur, revealing significant clues on predator-prey dynamics of Cretaceous animals, Chris Burns writes for Slash Gear.
Curiosity and Climate Science
ClimateXIn a new video from ClimateX, MIT's Professor of Atmospheric Science Kerry Emanuel speaks about the origins of climate science and stresses the importance of climate science research, imploring talented students to get involved in what he considers to be an underpopulated field.
Monitoring and Mitigating Mercury
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Amanda Giang PhD '17 models a pollutant’s pathways and helps decision makers craft more effective mitigation policies.
June92017
Charting a Better Future for Africa
Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ChangeApplying models to help decision-makers advance food security and sustainable development in a climate-compromised continent
2017 EAPS Student Awards
EAPS Education OfficeA roll-call of this year's Excellence in Teaching, Crosby, and Goetze Award recipients presented at the May19th Student Recognition Dinner.
Who's Who? Who's New? in EAPS
Helen Hill | EAPS NewsA warm welcome to visiting scientist Wenlian Xiao, new Summons Lab Assistant Alexandra Bryan, and Babbin Group postdoc Einat Segev. Plus, congratulations to Xiaolei Liu of the Summons Group on his recent promotion from Postdoc to Research Scientist.
April272017
Exploring our Oceans: The Cross-talk between Marine Life and Climate Change
Harvard's SIT’N Listen PodcastHarvard's SIT'N Listen Podcast speaks with MIT and WHOI graduate students Gabriela Farfan and Hanny Rivera about how studying oceans and marine biodiversity can help us better understand and combat climate change.
April202017
March for Science on Saturday — get off sidelines, make a difference
Lauren HinkelNoelle Held, a PhD candidate in chemical oceanography at MIT and WHOI, discusses why she's proud to be part of a long history of American scientists and pioneers, and why it's important to continue supporting science, particularly this weekend.
April112017
Environmentalist and Explorer
Kate Telma | MIT News correspondentSenior Elizabeth Rider uses atmospheric chemistry research on aerosols with Prof. Dan Cziczo and Noelle Selin to create international connections.
April52017
ES&T’s Best Papers of 2016
Lauren HinkelSelin’s “Costs of IQ Loss from Leaded Aviation Gasoline Emissions” takes Top Paper in Environmental Policy for 2016.
March242017
How Climate Change Covered China in Smog
Lauren HinkelAir quality in Beijing has a lot to do with snowstorms in Siberia. Associate Professor Noelle Selin comments on how local weather can influence global air pollution in The Atlantic.
Standing Out in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Lauren HinkelPAOC postdoc Daniel D. B. Koll receives an award for his poster presented at the 49th Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
March152017
Media Lab Sets Sights on Space
Margaret Evans | MIT Media Lab MIT Media Lab event, Beyond the Cradle, launches a new initiative to explore the final frontier.
Commercial Space: Can We Privatize Our Way to the Stars?
Rob Matheson | MIT News OfficeCan we privatize our way to the stars? Annual conference explores the rise and distant future of the private space industry. PAOC postdoc Julien de Wit contributes to Beyond the Cradle.