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 ...
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 ...
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."
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 ...
Under Pressure
Under Pressure
In this video we replicate Pascal's famous experiment that showed atmospheric pressure was due to the column of the weight of the air above.
Transit Time Lapse
Transit Time Lapse
The rare coincidence in the orbit of the moon and sun was captured by Mike Krawczynski PhD '11.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Profile: EAPS Graduate Student Yodit Tewelde
Profile: EAPS Graduate Student Yodit Tewelde
Yodit Tewelde is a graduate student in the Planetary Science Program in EAPS. Childhood planetarium visits and a love of reading science fiction novels, meant Yodit always suspected space or space exploration was somewhere in a her future. In High School, while she ...
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Physical Sciences and Engineering
MIT150 Symposium Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything Symposium Chair Srinivas Devadas - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Speakers Charles M. Vest - President, Emeritus, MIT and President, National Academy of Engineering Maria Zuber - E. A. ...
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT profiles three prominent interdisciplinary researchers at MIT. Profiles include Maria Zuber, a geophysicist renowned for her research on planetary surfaces; Vladimir Bulovi?, an electrical engineer developing lightweight ...
Noah McLean - Adjusting the Rock Clock
Noah McLean - Adjusting the Rock Clock
Postdoc Noah McLean and scientists at the British Geological Survey have redefined a fundamental parameter used to calibrate Earth's history. In their recent Science paper, they report variations in minerals used to date major geological events.
Mysterious electron acceleration explained
Mysterious electron acceleration explained
A mysterious phenomenon detected by space probes has finally been explained, thanks to a massive computer simulation that was able to precisely align with details of the spacecraft observations.