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 ...
Deciphering the Dariv
Deciphering the Dariv
Claire Bucholz, a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, studies rocks in an ancient subduction zone now lying in the heart of land-locked Mongolia. In particular, she has spent the last two summers, building an understanding of a unique island arc-related alkaline fractionation ...
Measuring Martian Snowflakes
Measuring Martian Snowflakes
Renyu Hu, a graduate student in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, is interested in a range of planetary science problems from characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces to analyzing Mars ...
Tracking Creeping Plates from Space
Tracking Creeping Plates from Space
Mike Floyd, a postdoc in the Department of Earth, Atmopheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT, uses GPS to track the vanishingly slow, yet inexorable movement of the tectonic plates underlying the Caucasus. In this video he shares work he and co-workers recently published showing ...
Where Biology and Geology Meet
Where Biology and Geology Meet
Geobiologist, and Hayes Career Dev. Assoc. Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Tanja Bosak studies microbial fossils to understand the parallel evolution of life and the environment. She also undertakes laboratory experiments on modern microbes to ...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Alison Malcolm is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
Transit Time Lapse
Transit Time Lapse
The rare coincidence in the orbit of the moon and sun was captured by Mike Krawczynski PhD '11.
Fast Processes
Fast Processes
The Earth is over 4 billion years old, but the surface is much younger. How is this possible? Volcanoes, landslides and earthquakes. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://k12videos.mit.edu/terms-conditions
The layers of the Earth
The layers of the Earth
The Earth is approximately 4,000 miles from the center to its surface, but what makes up those miles of earth? Let's take a journey inside.
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental ...
The World's Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past ...
Professor Susan SolomonEllen Swallow Richards Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at MITDean of Science's Colloquium: “The World’s Chemistry in Our Hands: Global Environmental Challenges Past and Future”September 13, 2012 Humans ...
Modeling the Arctic Ocean - MITgcm on Ice
Modeling the Arctic Ocean - MITgcm on Ice
The Arctic Ocean halocline, a layer of high vertical salinity gradient and near-freezing temperature, insulates the surface sea-ice from heat stored in Atlantic water with a significant impact on sea-ice growth and melt. An understanding of its role in the general ...
Mapping the Moon's Shackleton Crater
Mapping the Moon's Shackleton Crater
Scientists from MIT, Brown University, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and other institutions have mapped the moon's Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, and found possible evidence for small amounts of ice on the crater's floor.
Struck by Asteroids
Struck by Asteroids
Francesca DeMeo has a passion for asteroids. This former EAPS undergraduate, back at MIT after a stint at grad school in Paris, is currently a postdoc in Rick Binzel's Group. In this interview, Francesca shares her excitement and fascination about these abundant and varied bodies. Video ...
The SQUID, the planetary scientist and a lot of little bits ...
The SQUID, the planetary scientist and a lot of little bits of moon rock
Benjamin Weiss is conducting laboratory magnetic studies on rocks from Mars, the Moon, and Earth to understand the evolution of planets, magnetism, and life. He is using SQUID microscopy, a new technique several orders of magnitude more sensitive than standard ...
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 ...
Tammy Thompson on "Evaluating Energy Policy: Quantifying ...
Tammy Thompson on "Evaluating Energy Policy: Quantifying Air Pollution and ...
Researcher Tammy Thompson attended the American Geophysical Union's Science Policy Conference this month. In this video, Thompson explains the research she did that the conference highlighted. To view Thompson's poster from the conference, click here. In her research, ...
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 ...
At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean
At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean
Mick Follows is a Senior Research Scientist in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate, part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, at MIT. Together with the other members of the Marine Biogeochemical Modeling group ...
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 ...
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 ...