Knight Seminar: Charles Marshall
Knight Seminar: Charles Marshall
Knight seminar with Charles Marshall, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley: "Gauging Ecosystem Response to Climate Change" September 22, 2011
Knight Seminar Preview: Charles Marshall
Knight Seminar Preview: Charles Marshall
Knight seminar with Charles Marshall, Director, Museum of Paleontology, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley"Gauging Ecosystem Response to Climate Change" September 22, 2011
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, ...
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, Technological, and ...
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change: Scientific, Technological, and Social Dynamics Jim Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College Tuesday, May 8 How have scientists gained awareness and understanding of phenomena that cover ...
Head in the Clouds
Head in the Clouds
Sarvesh Garimella is a graduate student interested in using laboratory studies and models to understand how natural and anthropogenic aerosols affect the formation and persistence of ice and mixed-phase clouds in the atmosphere and ultimately the climate system.Video by Helen Hill, MIT
Forging a New Direction in Climate Research
Forging a New Direction in Climate Research
Research aimed at predicting future climate activity has primarily focused on large and complex numerical models. While this approach has provided some quantitative estimates of climate change, those predictions can vary greatly from one model to the next and produce ...
Engineering a Cooler Earth: Panel Discussion
Engineering a Cooler Earth: Panel Discussion
Recorded 11/19/12
Energy, the Media and You
Energy, the Media and You: Behind the scenes with top science reporters
Public discourse on energy topics from nuclear technology to climate impacts to biofuels is often characterized by tall claims, exaggerated risks, biased coverage and impenetrable legalese.
Energy 101: Biofuels
Energy 101: Biofuels
In this short video, Dr. Mark Mba Wright gives a broad overview of biofuels: from what they are to their technological requirements and challenges.
EAPS in Brief: Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald
EAPS in Brief: Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald
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 ...
Cumulus, cirrus, stratus: what clouds say about climate ...
Cumulus, cirrus, stratus: what clouds say about climate change
What happens when particles in the atmosphere, especially manufactured ones, interact with water vapor and temperature to form clouds in a changing climate?
Miller Lecture: Complex Sociotechnical Systems
Complex Sociotechnical Systems: The Case for a New Field of Study
The Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture (recorded on 4/25/12), with Interim ESD Director Joseph Sussman
CO2 vs. Humanity
CO2 vs. Humanity - A Cool Short about Climate Change
Doodle/comic about climate change: Part of MIT's "Cool Shorts" IAP 2012 Lecture focusing on the creation of short videos on global warming.
Climate's Dusty Clues
Climate's Dusty Clues
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 ...
Climate Change Policy that Makes Economic Sense
Climate Change Policy that Makes Economic Sense
A webcast recorded on April 10, 2013, featuring Professor Christopher Knittel of the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Greenhouse Gas Can Find a Home Underground
Carbon Capture & Storage: Greenhouse Gas Can Find a Home Underground
A new study by researchers at MIT shows that there is enough capacity in deep saline aquifers in the United States to store at least a century's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from the nation's coal-fired powerplants.
Can I Go Out And Play?
Can I Go Out And Play?
From the 'Cool Shorts: Climate Change on Web Video' Independent Activities Period 2012 course. The class, co-sponsored by Knight Science Journalism at MIT, focused on the production of several short videos about climate change, meant for web distribution. The goal will be to explore, visualize ...
What's Your Question? - Rivers of Ice
Cambridge Science Festival - What's Your Question? - Rivers of Ice
From the high Himalayas to the poles, the world’s glaciers are melting. What does this mean for your community and our shared Earth? David Breashears presents his stunning new images of the Himalayan glaciers to mark the MIT Museum’s opening ...
Bill Joy's Energy Quest
Bill Joy's Energy Quest
The technologist turned venture capitalist describes his approach to investing in technologies that can avert climate change.
Adolescence & Earth
Adolescence & Earth
From the 'Cool Shorts: Climate Change on Web Video' Independent Activities Period 2012 course. The class, co-sponsored by Knight Science Journalism at MIT, focused on the production of several short videos about climate change, meant for web distribution. The goal will be to explore, visualize ...
3 Myths About Fossil Fuels
3 Myths About Fossil Fuels
Three myths about fossil fuels. Part of MIT's IAP 2012 Cool Shorts Lecture on the creation of short videos related to Climate Change.