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
Since 2001, Lodovica Illari and her colleague John Marshall have worked to make rotating fluid dynamics more intuitive for undergraduate students studying weather and climate, using a demonstration aptly named "Weather in a Tank."
MIT Environmental Research Forum - Dara Entekhabi, Ernest Moniz, and James Yoder
Video on thesis work that involved building and deploying an instrument to the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research site in central Massachusetts.
David McGee is a paleoclimatologist whose work focuses on reconstructing past changes in extra tropical atmospheric circulation and hydrology. He has explored this area through studies of dust blown out of the world's drylands and deposited in the ocean; changes in dryland water balance as ...
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 ...
Matt Rigby is a Research Scientist in the Center for Global Change Science. An atmospheric chemist by training, his particular interest is in determining the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. To determine their sources and sinks, Rigby uses measurements of the ...
Yodit Tewelde is a graduate student in the Planetary Science Program in EAPS. Childhood planetarium visits and a love of reading science fiction novels, meant Yodit always suspected space or space exploration was somewhere in a her future. In High School, while she ...
Alison Criscitiello is a fourth year Marine Geology and Geophysics student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in EAPS. Her principal interest is in glaciology, in particular validating a potential proxy for Antarctic sea-ice extent based on ice-core composition. Each winter for the past 2 years ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A team of researchers from 8 countries is trying to understand the links between the largest continental volcanic eruption (the Siberian flood basalts) and the largest extinction in Earth history (the end-Permian). Funded by NSF, we are in the middle of a five-year ...
A missile-targeting technology is adapted to process aerial photos into 3-D city maps sharper than Google Earth's.
Gonzalo Carrasco is a postdoc. working in Ed Boyle's Lab. His main interests are the study of trace metals of biogeochemical importance, focusing on their concentration, chemical speciation and isotopic fractionation in water, sediments and biological records, aiming ...
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 ...
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.
Speaker: MIT Professor Kerry A. Emanuel
Dr. Joe Pedlosky, Woods Hole, Jan 14, 2011
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 ...
