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October 31 2018
Arctic Ice Sets Speed Limit for Major Ocean Current
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Long-term melting may lead to release of huge volumes of cold, fresh water into the North Atlantic, impacting global climate.
October 31 2018
Monitoring the Atmosphere, Changing the World
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Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change AGAGE network celebrates 40 years of measuring ozone-depleting and climate-warming gases.
October 31 2018
Addressing the Possibility of Life on Mars
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Fatima Husain | EAPS News Mars expert John Grotzinger tells the story of exploration and the search for ancient life on the red planet at the 2018 Carlson Lecture.
October 24 2018
MIT-WHOI Joint Program Marks 50th Year
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Oceanus Magazine Unorthodox partnership remains an educational ‘jewel’
October 16 2018
Understanding the Chaotic Nature of Weather
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Josh Kastorf | EAPS News A short documentary examining the legacy of famed MIT meteorologist and mathematician Edward N. Lorenz.
October 16 2018
Can We Improve Monsoon Forecasts?
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Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger | Oceanus Magazine The ocean may be the key to better forecasting hard-to-predict monsoons, explains graduate student Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger.
October 12 2018
Studying the Hotbed of Horizontal Gene Transfers
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Fatima Husain | EAPS News Global Microbiome Conservancy’s preliminary results reveal new insights into human gut microbiomes and early climate.
October 12 2018
The 2018 PAOC Retreat: MIT Endicott House
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Kelsey Tsipis | MIT The 2018 PAOC retreat, hosted at the MIT Endicott House in Dedham, MA, gave students and faculty a chance to socialize and relax before the start of the semester.
October 10 2018
Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
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Chawalit Charoenpong | Oceanus Magazine Graduate student Chawalit Charoenpong writes about his first dive to the seafloor in search of ingredients that may have sparked life on Earth.
September 24 2018
How Earth Sheds Heat into Space
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.
September 20 2018
Who's Who? Who's New?
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News A chance to catch up with recent comings, goings and promotions in EAPS since the end of spring.
September 18 2018
The Unseen World on Coral Reefs
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Laura Castañón | Oceanus Magazine A hidden microbiome underlies health of reef ecosystems.
September 14 2018
The MIT-WHOI Joint Program Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
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Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (MIT-WHOI JP).
September 14 2018
How Phytoplankton Survive in Ocean Gyres with Low Nutrient Supplies
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Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent Model of nutrient recycling may explain longstanding mystery.
September 13 2018
Congratulations to Simons Postdoctoral Fellow B.B. Cael
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Helen Hill | MIT Darwin Project B.B. Cael, a graduate student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, has been awarded one of nine 2018 Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology.
August 28 2018
De Wit and TRAPPIST-1 Science Team Receive NASA Award
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EAPS News EAPS congratulates Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences Julien de Wit and his colleagues from the TRAPPIST-1 Science Team for earning a NASA Group Achievement Award.
August 24 2018
Selin named director of the MIT Technology and Policy Program
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Scott Murray | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Selin will spearhead the master's program for students whose research addresses societal challenges at the intersection of technology and policy.
August 21 2018
The Recipe for a Harmful Algal Bloom
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Suzi Clark | Oceanus Magazine Many ingredients mix in the ocean to make toxic shellfish.
August 17 2018
O’Gorman Awarded 2018 School of Science Teaching Prize
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EAPS News EAPS Associate Professor, Paul O'Gorman, is honored for excellence in graduate teaching.
August 10 2018
ASTERIA Measures Exoplanet Transit - A First for CubeSats
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Mary Knapp and Lauren Hinkel | EAPS News This observation demonstrates proof-of-concept, that small spacecraft can perform high precision photometry.
July 31 2018
Jimmy Gasore Receives the 2018 Rossby Award
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Lauren Hinkel The prize is given for the best PhD thesis done the preceding year within PAOC.
July 30 2018
Gateway to Antarctica
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Fatima Husain | Summons Lab PAOC and Summons lab member Emily Matys searches around the globe to reveal the secrets of microbial life
July 25 2018
Description and Evaluation of the MIT Earth System Model (MESM)
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Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Results from the latest version of MESM compare favorably with those produced by more computationally intensive models.
July 18 2018
Study Finds Climate Determines Shapes of River Basins
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Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Results may help identify ancient climates on Earth or other planets.
July 9 2018
Putting the microbiome on the map
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Fatima Husain | Summons Lab Global Microbiome Conservancy scales up
July 29 2016
CEE Announces New Leadership Appointments MIT News Colette Heald to Serve as CEE Associate Department Head
July 6 2016
Back to the Thesis Lauren Hinkel How Astrophysicist Sara Seager's PhD work founded the field of exoplanet study
June 28 2016
The Perfect Planet Lauren Hinkel Planetary scientist Sara Seager argues that the concept of exoplanets' "habitable zone" isn't helpful anymore
June 23 2016
Getting Back into Nuclear Chris Mooney | Washington Post It’s the first new U.S. nuclear reactor in decades. And climate change has made that a very big deal.
June 14 2016
Why This Hurricane Season is so Important to Scientists Brian K Sullivan | Bloomberg Determining the underlying drivers of Atlantic ocean temperatures and their effect on hurricane activity
June 9 2016
Happy Birthday to the Father of Chaos Theory EAPS News MIT EAPS professor Kerry Emanuel remembers a mentor of his, Edward Lorenz
June 9 2016
Congratulations to EAPS Class of 2016 MIT's Education Office Degrees awarded during the 2015/2016 academic year. Degrees are conferred in September, February and June
June 9 2016
Digital Ocean Ari Daniel PhD '08 | MIT Spectrum Modeling the diverse world of phytoplankton opens up a predictive view of our own. MIT’s Spectrum Magazine spotlight’s the Darwin Project.
May 19 2016
Shell Looks for a Hedge Against Climate Change Geoffrey Smith | Fortune Shell cites MIT climate research as an incentive to push for net-zero emissions energy, Fortune reports.
May 6 2016
Scientists discover potentially habitable planets Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Just 40 light years from Earth, planets are best targets so far for search for extraterrestrial life.
May 6 2016
Life's a Gas Helen Hill | EAPS MIT Scientists Compile List of Potential Gases to Guide Search for Life on Exoplanets
April 28 2016
Oceans Alive!: Trawling in the Charles Lauren Hinkel Trawling in the Charles River brings MIT postdocs closer to the organisms they model
April 25 2016
How much of a difference will the Paris Agreement make? Mark Dwortzan | Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change MIT study projects end-of-century climate under different scenarios.
April 20 2016
Rossby: Tapping into the Stratosphere Lauren Hinkel How a collaboration between Carl Rossby and MIT researchers launched a weather balloon and the study of meteorology in the US.
April 14 2016
Answers in the Andes Neil Murthy | Medill News Christine Chen examines ancient lakes in the Andes Mountains for clues to predict future climate change
April 14 2016
Evolution of Motivations for Climate Action Lauren Hinkel The impetus for many has shifted from the longterm benefits to more immediate ones.
March 31 2016
Ocean Turbulence Thinking Turned Upside Down Lauren Hinkel New research on ocean turbulence may reverse how we think about its role in the oceans
March 28 2016
A highly eccentric exoplanet Jennifer Chu/ MIT News Observations of an extreme-weather planet raise questions about hot Jupiters’ origins.
March 7 2016
New York Times Spotlights Intersection of MIT Climate Science and Art Cassie Martin Work of MIT Meteorologist Lodovica Illari and CAST Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno among featured collaborations
February 16 2016
Coming together on climate Jessica Fujimori/Environmental Solutions Initiative Hackathon for Climate brings students, faculty, staff, and alumni together on climate change solutions.
January 6 2016
School of Science honors research staff with 2016 Infinite Kilometer Awards MIT News Office PAOC's own Principle Research Scientist Sai Ravela is among the honorees.
January 4 2016
Global reductions in mercury emissions should lead to billions in economic benefits for U.S. Jennifer Chu/MIT News New study from Selin group finds benefits from international regulations may double those of domestic policy.
December 18 2015
Noelle Selin Receives AAAS Fellowship EAPS News Only days after the landmark COP21 Paris climate-change agreement, Professor Noelle Eckley Selin was announced as one of the first AAAS fellows of the Leshner Leadership Institute for Public Engagement with Science.
December 16 2015
Glenn Flierl Gives 2015 FDEPS Lecture Cassie Martin MIT oceanographer honored as invited lecturer at annual fluid dynamics workshop in Japan.
November 18 2015
MIT's Five-Year Plan for Action on Climate Change MIT News Office Plan will focus on low-carbon research; advocacy for carbon pricing; a call to the alumni and beyond.