From the inaccessible depths of the terrestrial interior to the vast reaches of our galaxy, our planet and the natural systems surrounding it provide important clues to the course of our future. At MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), we examine the history and interactions of these systems in order to predict future events and states with greater accuracy. Learn more
Holly Dail is a 5th year graduate student doing paleoclimate research with Carl Wunsch and Patrick Heimbach in PAOC. As a member of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, she also collaborates with scientists at WHOI. In a recent interview she explained what she does.
Domeisen is a 4th year grad. student. Her research seeks to understand "sudden stratospheric warming" in which the wintertime stratospheric temperature over the poles is observed to suddenly rise by several tens of degrees in a matter of a few days. Her advisor if ...
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT profiles three prominent interdisciplinary researchers at MIT. Profiles include Maria Zuber, a geophysicist renowned for her research on planetary surfaces; Vladimir Bulovi?, an electrical engineer developing lightweight ...
Postdoc Noah McLean and scientists at the British Geological Survey have redefined a fundamental parameter used to calibrate Earth's history. In their recent Science paper, they report variations in minerals used to date major geological events.
The Arctic Ocean halocline, a layer of high vertical salinity gradient and near-freezing temperature, insulates the surface sea-ice from heat stored in Atlantic water with a significant impact on sea-ice growth and melt. An understanding of its role in the general ...
This Google Earth flyover shows where our team has been in Siberia during our 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010 expeditions. Dots on the map are sample locations. White dots are lavas and sills, yellow dots are tuffs or volcaniclastics, purple are coals, and blue are other ...
MIT Environmental Research Forum - Dara Entekhabi, Ernest Moniz, and James Yoder
Graduate student Mike Sori studies planetary science. His particular research interest is understanding the nature and variations in cratering of Earth's moon. Using high-resolution altimeter data from the Lunar Reconaisance Orbiter to explore geographical differences in crater ...
Renyu Hu, a graduate student in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, is interested in a range of planetary science problems from characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces to analyzing Mars ...
Anne Willem Omta is a postdoc in the ocean biogeochemistry group of Mick Follows. He investigates the factors determining how much carbon is stored in the ocean by means of numerical simulations and mathematical theory. Currently, there are large carbon emissions of ...
Scientists from MIT, Brown University, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and other institutions have mapped the moon's Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, and found possible evidence for small amounts of ice on the crater's floor.
In the 41st annual Killian Lecture, Maria Zuber describes looking deep into the moon’s interior to chart its early history.
Cahoy joined EAPS in July 2011 as an Assistant Professor in the Planetary Sciences Program. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 2000, and MS (2002) and PhD (2008) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University working with the ...
Susan Solomon is widely recognized as a leader in the field of atmospheric science. She is well known for having pioneered the theory explaining why the ozone hole occurs in Antarctica, and obtaining some of the first chemical measurements that helped to establish the ...
Atmospheric chemist Professor Colette Heald joined MIT this spring as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in EAPS and Civil and Environmental Engineering. She received her BS in Engineering Physcs from Queen's Universityin Kingston, Ontario (she is ...
Speaker: MIT Professor Kerry A. Emanuel
Dr. Joe Pedlosky, Woods Hole, Jan 14, 2011
Claire Bucholz, a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies rocks in an ancient subduction zone now lying in the heart of land-locked Mongolia. In particular, she has spent the last two summers, building an understanding of a unique island arc-related alkaline fractionation ...
What happens when particles in the atmosphere, especially manufactured ones, interact with water vapor and temperature to form clouds in a changing climate?
The May 29 near-miss by the object catalogued as “2012 KT42” was the sixth closest asteroid encounter on record, and triggered a preplanned “Rapid Response Program."
