The present and future risks associated with hurricanes?
What Does Current Scientific Research Have to Say About the Present and ...
Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric ScienceDescription: As the costs of Hurricane Katrina continue to spiral higher â to date, $125 billion in damages and 1,200 deaths â there's keen interest in perfecting the science of hurricane forecasting. The ...
Nature's Poker Face: Predicting Hurricanes in a Warming ...
Nature's Poker Face: Predicting Hurricanes in a Warming World
A short documentary about the effects of climate change on the severity of storms. Featuring Kerry Emmanuel, by Taylor Beck, Garret Fitzparick and Conor Myhrvold. Produced May 2012.
Doctoral Student Dan Chavas asks how meteorological changes ...
Doctoral Student Dan Chavas asks how meteorological changes affect ...
A self-described 'weather geek', doctoral candidate Dan Chavas is fascinated by hurricanes. More specifically, he is interested in what factors influence hurricane development and how large a given storm will become. As he describes, "right now, we have no capacity to ...
The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
The Challenge: Meeting Global Energy Demands Sustainably
10/18/2006 6:00 PM MuseumErnest Moniz, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric ScienceDescription: Despite their calm demeanors, Kerry Emanuel and Ernie Moniz impart grave and pressing concerns about global warming to this ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of ...
Master's student Megan Lickley measures the risks of climate change on ...
A Masters student in the Technology and Policy Program, Megan Lickley studies the impact of climate change on coastal energy infrastructure. In particular, she is looking at how sea level rise and hurricanes will change over time, and how these changes will affect ...
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
What's So Natural About Natural Disasters?
11/15/2005 5:00 PM Kirsch 32-123Rosalind H. Williams, HM, Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology; David A. Mindell, PhD '96, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing; ; David S. Jones, ...
The Purpose of Business
The Purpose of Business
05/02/2006 12:00 PM WongLord John Browne, Group Chief Executive, BP p.l.c.; The Lord Browne of MadingleyDescription: One common view of business makes a sharp distinction between making money and doing good in society. This is a "limited and distorted" perspective, according to John Browne. ...
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
U.S.-Cuba Relations: The Beginning of a Long Thaw?
09/23/2009 4:30 PM Wong AuditoriumJulia Sweig, Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow For Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Wayne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director of the Cuba Program, Center for International PolicyDescription: To the dismay of ...
Leading Global Growth by Protecting What Really Matters Most
Leading Global Growth by Protecting What Really Matters Most
02/13/2008 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumEllen J. Kullman, Chair of the Board & Chief Executive Officer, DupontDescription: After 205 years, DuPont has transformed itself substantially while remaining true to its character, suggests Ellen Kullman. "We're a company with a ...
Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and ...
Planning the Response: Establishing the Impacts and Identifying the ...
09/28/2010 3:00 PM E14"674Amy Glasmeier, Department Head, Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, DUSP; Wyman Briggs, Preparedness Specialist, US Coast Guard; Earthea Nance, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies, University of New Orleans) ; James Thu ...
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
Re-Engineering Buildings: Innovations in Building Technology
10/01/2010 11:00 AM e14"633Tony Ciochetti, Chairman, MIT Center for Real Estate; John Ochsendorf, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Alex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT ...
Stacy, 5th year master's student in EAPS
Stacy, 5th year master's student in EAPS
Stacy is a 5th year master's student in EAPS. Her thesis work focuses on assessing the economic value of seasonal hurricane forecasts based on insurance and reinsurance company interactions and information asymmetries. Her advisor is Kerry Emanuel. In this interview she shares a ...
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
There is general agreement that to call New Orleans home means "living with danger, dangerously," as William Barry put it.
How Can We Improve Disaster Response?
Drawing Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: How Can We Improve Disaster ...
Even if the U.S. draws the right lessons from Hurricane Katrina, panelists suggest, the nation may still be caught short in the next disaster. Moderator: Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT-CIS Program ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next ...
Rethinking Climate Change: The Past 150 Years and the Next 100 Years
04/21/2011 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJohn Reilly, Co"director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management ; Kerry Emanuel, '76, PhD '78, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Ronald Prinn, SCD '71, TEPCO ...
Rebuilding New Orleans: An Opportunity to Re-Energize the ...
Rebuilding New Orleans: An Opportunity to Re-Energize the Planning ...
Kristina Ford, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College; Former Executive Director, New Orleans City Planning Commission Description: There's no love lost between Kristina Ford and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin; he made it clear that she was not ...