Winning the Oil Endgame
Winning the Oil Endgame
02/27/2006 4:00 PM WongAmory Lovins, Founder and CEO, Rocky Mountain InstituteDescription: Cars, trucks and planes lie at the heart of Amory Lovins plan for kicking the oil habit. We must make all our vehicles both lighter and stronger, using composite materials; more aerodynamic; and capable ...
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
01/30/2008 9:00 AM 32"123John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: John Sterman pokes holes through some popular proposals for addressing climate change, with sobering case ...
When Life's a Plastic Beach - Adventures in Geomorphology
When Life's a Plastic Beach - Adventures in Geomorphology
Geomorphologist Taylor Perron loves figuring out how landscapes tick. His group is particularly intersted in how patterns emerge in landscapes (from river networks to ripples in sand at the shoreline), how climate, and especially rainfall and sunlight, influence ...
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 — to date, $125 billion in damages and 1,200 deaths — there's keen interest in perfecting the science of hurricane forecasting. The ...
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil" What's Next?
Whales to Wood, Wood to Coal/Oil" What's Next?
10/09/2007 2:15 PM 10"250Daniel Nocera, The Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry; ; ; Description: In 1845, the Dietz Company of New York introduced the sperm oil lantern, which nearly wiped out some whale species. A decade or so later, Dietz ...
Weather in a tank
Weather in a tank
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."
Water
Water
With James WescoatAbout the event With its daylong MIT Environmental Research Forum held on December 15, 2011, the Environmental Research Council (ERC) fulfilled its charge from Provost L. Rafael Reif to "provide a detailed blueprint for building a strong environmental initiative" at MIT. ...
Watching the Arctic Melt: Surveying with Sound
Watching the Arctic Melt: Surveying with Sound
Art Baggeroer & Henrik Schmidt
Watching the Arctic Melt: Robotic Exploration
Watching the Arctic Melt: Robotic Exploration
John Leonard & Hanu Singh
Watching the Arctic Melt: Geopolitics
Watching the Arctic Melt: Geopolitics
Rear Adm. Richard Pittenger, USN
Watching the Arctic Melt: Ecosystem Adaptation
Watching the Arctic Melt: Ecosystem Adaptation
Carin Ashjia
Watching the Arctic Melt, part 1
Watching the Arctic Melt, part 1
Symposium on the Arctic Ocean
View from the Top Overview & Keynote Highlights
View from the Top Overview & Keynote Highlights
The Alumni Association event View from the Top in London on Jan. 22, 2009, presented a panel of seasoned executives discussing the forces shaping our turbulent times. The event was hosted by PA Consulting Group. For an update of these views, watch Jon Moynihan ...
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice
Understanding Arctic Sea Ice
Read more about Principal Research Scientist Patrick Heimbach's work in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT News, the MITgcm website, and the website for NASA's ECCO2.About the animation: The simulation was conducted with the MIT coupled ocean-sea ice general ...
Underground methane
Underground methane
This video shows underground methane gas invading fine-grain sediment (shown in yellow) by creating a fracture, as predicted by Jain and Juanes' grain scale model. Blue circles represent pore spaces where the gas has invaded. The maroon lines indicate compressive forces between sediment ...
Uncertainties in Climate Forecasts: Causes, Magnitudes and ...
Uncertainties in Climate Forecasts: Causes, Magnitudes and Policy ...
04/25/2007 4:15 PM 34-101Stephen H. SchneiderDescription: As one of the lead researchers in the ongoing Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which informs the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Stephen Schneider has labored mightily to map out the ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally ...
Transportation Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally and Walking the ...
10/20/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Frederick P. Salvucci, '61, SM '62, Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MITDescription: Why do so many sustainable transportation programs turn out, like the Alice in the Wonderland parable to lead us down unexpected ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems ...
Transportation in Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
03/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Joseph Sussman, J R East Professor of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDescription: In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing ...