"A Tale of Two Waters" presented by Yang Zhang
"A Tale of Two Waters" presented by Yang Zhang
NSE Doctoral Research Expo On March 10, Student Street in MIT's Stata Center was transformed into a forum for ideas and dialogue. It was the site of the Doctoral Research Expo hosted by the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. The inaugural Expo brought ...
2006 Freeman Lecture: "Integrated Water Resources ...
2006 Freeman Lecture: "Integrated Water Resources Management in the Midst ...
Eugene Z. Stakhiv, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, "Integrated Water Resources Management in the Midst of Chaos and Caducity: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina"
2012 Freeman Lecture: "Climate Change and Water Resources: ...
2012 Freeman Lecture: "Climate Change and Water Resources: Characterizing ...
Richard N. Palmer, Ph.D.Department Head and Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Massachusetts, AmherstRecorded 4/23/12Scientific evidence tells us that global climate is changing. However, precise impacts on natural and man-made systems ...
A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It
A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It
10/10/2007 6:00 PM MuseumAmy Smith, '84, SM '95, ENG '95, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jules Walter, '08, MIT '08 (Computer Science); Kendra Johnson, MIT '09; Amos Winter, SM '05, M.S. Mech Engineering, '05Description: If you live in a ...
A new approach to water desalination
A new approach to water desalination
MIT researchers are using graphene, a one-atom-thick form of the element carbon, in the quest to make the earth's oceans a viable source of potable water.
ALB006: The Quality of Water
ALB006: The Quality of Water
Video by: Caterina Scaramelli Water in the Mystic Watershed runs through a rich urban fabric of densely populated towns, and picks up different pollutants on the way. Every month, at dawn, a group of "Citizen scientists", residents committed to the vision of a liveable Mystic, sample water ...
Arsenic Poisoning and the Kanchan Arsenic Filter
Arsenic Poisoning and the Kanchan Arsenic Filter
Tens of millions of people in Asia are affected by arsenic contaminated groundwater. A partnership between MIT and ENPHO, a Nepali environmental NGO, have invented and widely disseminated the Kanchan Arsenic Filter in Nepal. New work is taking this filter to ...
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 ...
Basic Research with Real-World Impact
Basic Research with Real-World Impact
With Dara EntekhabiAbout 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. ...
BLOSSOMS - Sustainable Energy: "Can Water be the Future ...
BLOSSOMS - Sustainable Energy: "Can Water be the Future Fuel!?!" (Arabic)
The main objective of this video lesson is to bring the students' attention to the importance of basic and natural sciences in our lives. The lesson will introduce a topic (sustainable energy) that is related mainly to chemistry and is not usually covered directly in ...
boyancy w/ golf ball
boyancy w/ golf ball
increasing the density of water w/ saltfloating a golf ballMIT Physics 8.01L 2007
Carbon and Energy Efficient Supply Chains
Carbon and Energy Efficient Supply Chains
10/27/2009 4:00 PM 32"124Edgar Blanco, Research Director at the MIT Center for Transportation & LogisticsDescription: Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that could begin to change consumer behavior. The common ...
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs II
Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs II
03/28/2011 3:30 PM KresgeAngela Belcher, Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Biological Engineering; Christine Ortiz, Dean for Graduate Education MIT, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Sara Seager, Professor of Physics and ...
CityScope Peru
CityScope Peru
In the spring semester of 2008, a mixed class of grad and undergrad students, including architects, urban planners, and engineers, worked in Tambo de Mora, a town on Peru's southern coast that was ruined by a earthquake a year before our visit. This is the story of the class.
CityScope Peru: Elizabeth's Story
CityScope Peru: Elizabeth's Story
Elizabeth is a 12-year-old girl from Tambo de Mora, Peru. in 2007, her town was destroyed by an earthquake. Hear her words, and see the pictures she has taken of her town in this short audio slideshow.
Clean Water for 1+ Billion People
Clean Water for 1+ Billion People
Video Courtesy of The Museum of ScienceCLEAN WATER FOR BILLIONS! Safe Sanitation for 2.4 Billion People! Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries Project
Magnetically separating oil and water
Cleaning up oil spills with magnets
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up spills.
Climate
Climate
With Ronald PrinnAbout 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. ...
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 ...
CNN "Innovators" - Susan Murcott
CNN "Innovators" - Susan Murcott
The CNN series "Innovators" spotlights MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott and her work to bring clean water to developing countries. It highlights the innovation of the Kanchan [Note: Kanchan should have superscript TM and should be in italics ...