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 ...
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
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
Voices from New Orleans: Design and Planning Diaspora
There is general agreement that to call New Orleans home means "living with danger, dangerously," as William Barry put it.
Vegetation Dynamics and the Earth System
Vegetation Dynamics and the Earth System
Climate change does not unfold gradually or in a linear way.
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in ...
04/06/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Chris Zegras, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MITDescription: It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint ...
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 ...
Toxic Worlds
Toxic Worlds
Politics of Risk, Knowledge and Environmental HealthPanelists: Devra Davis, Cheryl Johnson, Jason CorburnModerator: Pete SpottsFriday, April 11, 2008
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 Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
The Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
This talk was given on December 14, 2010 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Juliette Kayyem was the Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security. Rear Admiral Peter Neffenger was the Deputy National Incident Commander for the Deepwater Horizon Oil ...
The Perfect Oyster
The Perfect Oyster
The definition of a "perfect oyster" depends a lot on whether you're a fisherman or a conservationist. But can conservation efforts create an environment that will preserve everyone's perfect oyster?
The Most Important Number in the World
The Most Important Number in the World
Science has given us, in the last 18 months, a real bottom line for the planet: a CO2 concentration above which, as NASA's Jim Hansen has put it, we can't maintain the "planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life is adapted." We need a movement to get that ...
The History of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and ...
The History of MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning
04/04/2008 9:00 AM Broad InstituteGary Hack, PhD '76, Paley Professor of City and Regional Planning, Dean of the School of Design, University of PennsylvaniaDescription: Who better than Gary Hack to recount the colorful 75"year tale of the Department of Urban Studies ...
The City Car
The City Car
03/19/2008 6:00 PM MuseumWilliam J. Mitchell, Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences ; Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab; Ryan Chin MA, '00, SM '04, Doctoral Student, Smart Cities ProjectDescription: William Mitchell and Ryan Chin ...
The 'Artificial Leaf'
The 'Artificial Leaf'
An "artificial leaf" made by Daniel Nocera and his team, using a silicon solar cell with novel catalyst materials bonded to its two sides, is shown in a container of water with light (simulating sunlight) shining on it. The light generates a flow of electricity that causes the water molecules, ...