Savings Plans and the Climate
Savings Plans and the Climate
Relating savings strategies to how we address a shifting climate.
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 ...
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation
Serious Energy, Serious Innovation - Kevin Surace - MIT Club of Northern ...
How Inc Magazine's 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year built a clean energy company Hear CEO Kevin Surace describe how he injected his entrepreneurial clean tech vision to create the most innovative company ever to hit the building materials industry. How did Serious Energy ...
Introducing Susan Solomon
Introducing Atmospheric Chemist Susan Solomon
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 ...
Profile: Matt Rigby
A Brit, his computer and prepping for a greenhouse whodunnit
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 ...
Computational Sustainability Seminar: Enabling a ...
Computational Sustainability Seminar: Enabling a Sustainable Energy ...
Sponsored by CSAIL David Culler, Professor and Chair of Computer Science Associate Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Faculty Director of i4Energy at the University of California, Berkeley After 150 years of industrial (r)evolution, as we ...
Stephanie Dutkiewicz follows the motion of the ocean, its ...
Stephanie Dutkiewicz follows the motion of the ocean, its nutrients, and ...
A research scientist in MIT's Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science department, Stephanie Dutkiewicz focuses on biogeochemical cycling and phytoplankton distribution in the ocean. Her research follows the circulation of the ocean, from the surface waters to the ...
The Siberian flood basalts and the end-Permian extinction
The Siberian flood basalts and the end-Permian extinction
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 ...
Doctoral student Timothy Cronin asks how plants affect our ...
Doctoral student Timothy Cronin asks how plants affect our climate
Researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change describe their research and why it is important
Postdoc Qudsia Ejaz counts indirect emissions from biofuels
Postdoc Qudsia Ejaz counts indirect emissions from biofuels
Researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change describe their research and why it is important
Research Scientist Erwan Monier examines uncertainty in ...
Research Scientist Erwan Monier examines uncertainty in climate change
Recently promoted from post-doc to research scientist, Dr. Erwan Monier works on quantifying uncertainty in future climate change using model simulations. "There are a lot of things about the earth system that we don't know," explains Erwan, "We have to take ...
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.
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 ...
The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the ...
The Role of International Negotiations in Addressing the Climate Challenge
04/21/2011 3:00 PM Wong AuditoriumTodd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change, US Department of StateDescription: With frightening evidence for climate change mounting around the globe, from droughts and massive forest fires to melting glaciers and rising sea ...
Energy 101: U.S.-China Partnership on Climate Change
Energy 101: U.S.-China Partnership on Climate Change
In this short interview, Dr. Hengwei Liu addresses the main aspects of a potential U.S.-China Partnership on Climate Change. This video is a follow-up of Dr. Liu's talk for the MIT Energy Club's Energy 101 Series. Dr. Liu is a Research Associate at TUFTS University ...
Master's student Paul Kishimoto makes complex climate and ...
Master's student Paul Kishimoto makes complex climate and economic models ...
Researchers from the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change describe their research and why it is important
Master's student CuiCui Chen examines the future role of ...
Master's student CuiCui Chen examines the future role of biofuels
Originally from China, Cuicui Chen joined the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change as a Masters degree candidate in the fall of 2010. Before arriving at the Joint Program Cuicui studied carbon abatement policies, but became interested in biofuels ...
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 ...
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 ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation ...
Air Pollution Trends and Impacts: Assessing Transportation in Context of ...
03/29/2011 4:00 PM Noelle Eckley Selin, Assistant Professor; Engineering Systems Division; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary SciencesDescription: It is a complicated matter mapping the movement of pollution in the atmosphere, but Noelle Eckley Selin ...