"Controls of the Global Overturning Circulation" The Global Overturning Circulation (GOC) is the largest component of the ocean circulation, playing a crucial role in redistributing key tracers like heat and carbon on a global scale. Understanding the GOC is essential as it generates much of the long-term climate variability and may be associated with tipping […]
Postponed due to weather. This talk will be rescheduled for a later date. How similar is Venus to Earth? Abstract: Venus and the Earth are almost identical in size and bulk composition, but appear to have followed very different evolutionary paths. Why? And how different are they really? In this talk I will focus on […]
Seminar in Geophysics Lecture portion of EAPS graduate-level class in geophysics, 12.571. All members of the MIT community are welcome to join for presentations by guest speakers, held approximately every two weeks during the term. Contact: erl-info@mit.edu
Building climate models that learn from data Abstract Climate models provide crucial information for climate change mitigation and adaptation. But they also lack necessary accuracy with respect to many atmospheric variables. Conventional atmospheric models are built on physical laws for the resolved dynamics but so-called parameterizations of processes that are not explicitly resolvable including cloud […]
“Getting to Know the Neighbors: Detailed Characterization of Our Nearest Planetary Systems” Over the past thirty years, astronomers have made extraordinary progress in detecting planets around other stars. We now know that stars commonly host planets with a wider range of physical properties and system architectures than exist in our own solar system, and that […]
Join the EAPS Peer Mentoring Program and Women+ in Course 12 (WiXII) for a talk on the topic of impostor syndrome. In this interactive session, led by internationally recognized author and expert, Dr. Valerie Young, you will: • Understand what impostor syndrome is – and what it is not. • Learn how impostor syndrome intersects […]
"A decade of global mercury policy: Has the Minamata Convention been effective?" In October 2013, a global treaty called the Minamata Convention on Mercury was signed, aiming to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic mercury pollution. As its tenth anniversary of this treaty has recently passed, has it been effective? In this talk, […]
"Wiring the Subduction Megathrust: Recurring and Triggered Near-Trench Slow Slip Events and their Environment Along the Nankai Subduction Zone" The offshore reaches of subduction megathrusts fail in a broad spectrum of slip modes, spanning from coseismic slip in great earthquakes, to tsunami earthquakes, to tremor and low frequency earthquakes, to slow slip events (SSEs) and […]
Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary sciences research program, and the talks are intended to appeal to any graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty with a background in planetary science. Speakers include members of the MIT community and visitors. Contact: planetary-org@mit.edu.
“On Scientific Temptation, Transgression, and Fraud: Three Personal Stories” I am going to tell you three very different stories from my career, with my own role and shortcomings in these conflicts unconcealed, and after each I am going to seek your views. What to do when you see fraud, assessing if it is intentional or […]
“Teaching Oceanography to Machines” Abstract: NOAA's Climate Forecast System provides predictions of the state of the climate over three timescales --- weekly, monthly, and seasonal. Predictability over monthly and seasonal timescales is enabled by coupling an atmospheric model to ocean, sea-ice, and land models. All of these models tend to be very computationally expensive. Recently, […]
“The Impact of Metals and Other Stress Factors on Microbial Ammonia Oxidation Physiology and Isotope Effects” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Thursday, February 29, 2024 TIME: 11:00 AM PLACE: Clark 507 - WHOI Campus and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Dr. Alan Seltzer, WHOI THESIS […]
“Accessing Geothermal Energy with Millimeter-Wave Beams” Abstract: Earth has a huge heat content equal to 20 billon years of current global energy consumption. This energy could be accessed almost anywhere for efficient electricity generation by penetrating deep into the crust >16 km and establishing a high temperature gradient >50 Co/m for high-power, supercritical extraction at […]
“Ozone in Wildfire Smoke: Impact on Atmospheric Composition at Local, Regional and Global Scale” PAOC Colloquium Interdisciplinary seminar series that brings together the whole PAOC (Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate) community. Seminar topics include all research concerning the physics, chemistry, and biology of the atmospheres, oceans and climate, as well as talks about societal […]
"Imaging an Oceanic Transform Fault with Controlled-Source Electromagnetics" Abstract: Oceanic transform faults (OTFs) are a fundamental piece of the plate tectonics puzzle as they connect the global system of mid-ocean ridges. Even so, there are many questions we have yet to answer regarding these seafloor strike-slip systems, which will have implications for our handling of […]
“Evolution of the Moon's orbital inclination” The Moon’s orbit is currently inclined despite having formed on a zero-inclination orbit after the Moon-forming giant impact. Various theories have been proposed to explain why the Moon’s orbit is inclined. We test the viability of these theories by reconstructing the thermal–orbital history of the Moon. In particular, we […]
“Quantifying the Economic Costs of Global Warming” Global warming threatens the economic well-being of people across the globe. Yet the magnitude and persistence of these economic impacts are poorly understood, making it difficult to design equitable mitigation and adaptation strategies and hold emitters accountable for the impacts of their emissions. In my research, I combine […]
“The Structure and Behavior of Plate Boundary Regions Through the Wilson Cycle” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Thursday, March 7, 2024 TIME: 9:00 AM PLACE: 54-1623 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Professor Tim Grove, MIT THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Oliver Jagoutz, MIT Professor Leigh Royden, MIT Assistant […]
“Ice Ice Baby: Investigating ice fracture processes using observational methods, continuum mechanics, and memes” Abstract: The conditions under which ice fractures and calves off of Antarctic ice shelves are poorly understood due largely to a lack of observations of ice fracture processes. Though previous studies have estimated the stresses at which ice fractures in the […]
“Past to future carbon cycle feedbacks” Feedbacks between the carbon cycle and climate remain a key source of uncertainty in future climate change projections, especially on timescales beyond the next 100 years. The known, cyclic changes in solar insolation driven by orbital variations provide a suite of sensitivity studies for evaluating these feedbacks across the […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“One if by air, two if by sea: Quantification of diffuse mercury emissions and the oceanic ventilation of lead” Abstract: Anthropogenic exploitation of terrestrial resources has caused a significant perturbation to the natural cycling of toxic heavy metals. The risks of heavy metal exposure have become apparent to global societies over the last fifty years, […]
“A Tale of Two Sulfur Sources” Abstract: Sulfur-containing aerosol cools the climate. The magnitude of the cooling effect of anthropogenic sulfate aerosol is uncertain due in large part to unknown natural abundances. We use Arctic ice core measurements of sulfur aerosols and their isotopes since the preindustrial era to quantify the relative abundance and trends of natural […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“Microphysics of creep at tectonic plate boundaries” Abstract: Plate tectonics governs almost all geological activity at Earth’s surface. Tectonic plate boundaries are the locus of geological hazards such as earthquakes and volcanoes. The processes through which the plates form and evolve entails the microscale physics of lithospheric deformation. Specifically, the strength of the lithosphere is […]
“Information theory as a tool in the search for life on exoplanets” Abstract: JWST and a host of upcoming missions promise a critical leap in the search for other life in the Universe. The massive improvement in the quantity and quality of exoplanet observations these instruments will bring accelerates the need for a minimally assumptive […]
Since the merger of Course XII and Course XIX in 1983, EAPS has worked to prepare the next generation of leaders while providing the MIT community—and the broader public—with a deeper understanding of nature in all its forms. Marking the occasion of four decades of discovery and education, we have much to celebrate! We're also […]
“Protoplanetary Disks and CO Snowlines” Abstract: The field of planet formation has undergone a revolution in the past decade. The outstanding observing capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), combined with substantial advances in theory and computation, have significantly refined our understanding of the planet formation process. […]
This event has been canceled for 3/22 and will be rescheduled for later in the spring term. “Data Integration across Scales: Bayesian Methods and Zonation Approaches” Abstract: Subsurface research has been pioneering statistical and machine learning methods to characterize spatiotemporal variability across scales, particularly focused on uncertainty quantification and the use of correlated/proxy variables. These […]
Title Convective precipitation extremes that Clausius-Clapeyron cannot explain Abstract The Clausius-Clapeyron scaling rate predicts that the heaviest precipitation events, including those produced by convection (e.g. thunderstorms), will intensify with warming at a fractional rate of ~7% per kelvin. This theoretical scaling has been demonstrated in observational data, global climate model projections, and convection-resolving models (CRMs). […]
“Thermodynamic and Dynamic Constraints on Tropical Hydro-climate” Abstract: It is not clear how systematic model biases in tropical precipitation and evaporation affect projections under global warming. In the first part of the talk I will show how thermodynamic considerations allow us to constrain the effects of these biases and estimate the increased projection uncertainty associated […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“How to Build a Planet: Assembling Planets in Stellar Sandboxes” Abstract: Nearly every star has a planet orbiting around it. The formation of planets is therefore a robust outcome of star formation. Yet, our understanding of this process is still fairly primitive. In this talk, I will summarize my efforts to shed new light on […]
"Mapping the Breathing of the Biosphere Using Tracers in the Air" The terrestrial biosphere offers us a key climate service by taking up one-third of human-induced carbon emissions. Whether this terrestrial carbon sink will persist in a warmer, higher-carbon dioxide (CO2) world is uncertain, as it hinges on whether photosynthesis outpaces respiration. To project coupled […]
“A Biogeochemical Investigation of Trunk River Lagoon, Falmouth, Massachusetts” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 TIME: 11:00 AM PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Professor Kristin Bergmann, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Roger E. Summons, MIT, EAPS Professor David McGee, MIT, EAPS […]
“An Energy Balance Model for Orbitally Forced Perturbations to the Seasonal Cycle and Implications for Glacial Inception” Abstract: During the latter part of the Pleistocene (1 mya to 0.01 mya), glacial cycles with a period of 100,000 years dominated Earth’s climate. However, the mechanisms driving glacial inception (the transition between the warm interglacial periods and […]
"Organic Acids, the Carbon Currency of Anoxic Environments: Isotopic Tools to Probe and Mitigate Global Methane Emissions" On both human and geologic timescales, microbial life significantly influences Earth’s climate. It is particularly important in environments without oxygen, where microbes degrade organic carbon, releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. To develop climate solutions that mitigate […]
“Ocean-atmosphere interactions critical to predict tropical climate change” Abstract: Predicting changes in tropical climate has been marred by model uncertainty. In addition to widespread disagreement on the sign of future rainfall changes, climate models participating in recent IPCC assessments fail to simulate the observed cooling trend in the tropical Pacific – a key driver of […]
“Genomic and Physiological Adaptation to Temperature in the Invasive Golden Star Tunicate, Botryllus schlosseri” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Friday, April 5, 2024 TIME: 2:30 PM PLACE: Redfield Auditorium and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Jesús Pineda, WHOI THESIS COMMITTEE: Dr. Carolyn Tepolt, Advisor, WHOI Dr. Ann […]
We'll be sharing the live NASA coverage of the 2024 solar eclipse on the media wall in the atrium of Building 55 from 1-4pm. Feel free to drop in anytime to view the broadcast from NASA as the eclipse moves across North America, traveling through Mexico, across the United States from Texas to Maine, and out […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
Seminar in Geophysics Lecture portion of EAPS graduate-level class in geophysics, 12.571. All members of the MIT community are welcome to join for presentations by guest speakers, held approximately every two weeks during the term. Contact: erl-info@mit.edu
“Employing Magnetic Field Records at Key Moments in Planetary Evolution” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Tuesday, April 9, 2024 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Tanja Bosak, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Benjamin Weiss, MIT, EAPS, Advisor Prof. Taylor Perron, MIT, […]
“Lunar Nearside-Farside Mare Basalt Asymmetry: The Combined Role of Global Crustal Thickness and South Pole-Aitken Basin-Induced Lithospheric Thickening” The first acquisition of lunar farside images by Luna 3 in 1958 revealed a substantial NS/FS asymmetry in mare basalt (MB) deposits,. In the following decades, many additional NS/FS asymmetries have been documented (e.g., albedo, topography, crustal […]
EQUAL (EAPS QUeer Alliance), TIDE (Towards Inclusion & Diversity in EAPS), and WiXII (Women+ in Course 12) invite all EAPS students and postdocs to our Spring Social on Wednesday, April 10th, 4:30-6:30 pm in the Rainbow Lounge in Walker Memorial. Please join us for a fun evening where we will learn embroidery and enjoy dinner […]
"Bridging Pore and Grain-Scale Physics to the Changing Cryosphere" The Greenland Ice Sheet has become the largest single source of barystatic sea-level rise in the cryosphere. Numerical models are developed to project the future of the ice sheet and its contribution to sea-level rise. However, predicting how fast the ice sheet flows, and when does […]
“Machine Learning for Earth System Modeling (EGU practice talk)” Abstract: Machine learning has been proposed for many tasks across Earth system modeling. With the advent of these new techniques it has become too easy to forget about the quality of existing domain-informed baselines. In this talk, I will first share a cautionary tale in deep […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“Studying Microbial Physiology to Predict the Fate of Soil Carbon” The largest annual fluxes in the global carbon (C) cycle are biological. This is especially true on land, where plants catalyze virtually all photosynthesis and diverse microbial communities in soils and sediments carry out terrestrial respiration. A single gram of soil typically contains 107–1010 microbes […]
Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary sciences research program, and the talks are intended to appeal to any graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty with a background in planetary science. Speakers include members of the MIT community and visitors. Contact: planetary-org@mit.edu.
“Insights into the Geodetic Signature of Continental Hydrology” Understanding how the Earth’s shape, gravity field and rotation change in response to shifting hydrological and oceanic mass loads at its surface holds great potential for regional and global monitoring of our rapidly evolving water resources. Recent advances in the field of hydrogeodesy, have required hand-in-hand development […]
“Atmospheric Composition and Climate Responses to US Air Pollution Controls” Large-scale regional perturbations in anthropogenic emissions, such as those due to national air quality controls like the US Clean Air Act (CAA) of 1970, have significantly altered the composition of short-lived climate forcers, namely ozone (O3) and aerosols, which have counteracting radiative effects. Due to […]
“Small Stars, Big Data: Detection and Characterization of Polluted White Dwarfs in the Era of Machine Learning” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Monday, April 22, 2024 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: 55-110 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Julien de Wit, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Sara […]
Atmospheric CO2 on geologic time scales must be regulated by some sort of climate feedback, to explain why Earth has not followed the paths of either Venus or Mars. The feedback was modeled by Berner and others as a climate-dependent rate of igneous rock weathering and carbonate production, in a spatially unresolved “box” type model. […]
Featuring Ani Dasgupta, President and CEO of the World Resources Institute Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves, and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis are bearing the brunt […]
“Investigating Tropospheric Hydrogen Peroxide Trends from 1950-2014” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Monday, April 22, 2024 TIME: 3:00 PM PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. David McGee, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Arlene Fiore, MIT, EAPS Professor Jesse Kroll, MIT, CEE Professor Tim Cronin, […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“Tide-sediment interactions beneath Antarctica” Abstract: The majority of ice in Antarctica reaches the ocean through fast-flowing ice streams, which slide over a layer of water-saturated subglacial sediment (till). Understanding the dynamics of the sediment is therefore key to understanding the behaviour of Antarctic glaciers. In this talk, I will discuss two ways in which tidal […]
“Quantifying the Processes Driving the Land Carbon Sink” Terrestrial sequestration of carbon is mitigating ≈30% of anthropogenic carbon emissions, a process known as the land sink. However, our current understanding of the land sink and its persistence is very limited. One key unresolved question is the relative contribution of terrestrial reservoirs —live or dead biomass, […]
Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary sciences research program, and the talks are intended to appeal to any graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty with a background in planetary science. Speakers include members of the MIT community and visitors. Contact: planetary-org@mit.edu.
“Biogeophysical Interactions in Climate Mitigation Strategies” Addressing climate change demands a comprehensive understanding of how mitigation strategies interact with the environment, including potential dynamic and nonlinear cascade effects. In this talk, I will analyze the biogeophysical interactions between the Earth system dynamics and two novel low-carbon fuels, hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3), as well as […]
“Bridging the Gap Between Microbial and Metazoan Evolutionary History” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Friday, April 26, 2024 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: 55-109 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Roger Summons, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Greg Fournier, MIT, EAPS Professor Andrew Babbin, MIT, EAPS Professor […]
“Anthropogenic fingerprint detectable in upper troposphere ozone trends retrieved from satellite” Tropospheric ozone (O3) is a strong greenhouse gas, particularly in the upper troposphere (UT). Limited observations point to a continuous increase in UT O3 in recent decades, but attribution of UT O3 changes is complicated by large internal climate variability. We show that the […]
“Melting Processes in Planetary Interiors” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Friday, April 26, 2024 TIME: 1:00 PM PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Oliver Jagoutz, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Timothy L. Grove, MIT, EAPS Professor Matěj Peč, MIT, EAPS Professor Stephen Parman, Brown […]
“Probing Large Wildfires to Understand Extreme Fire-Atmosphere Dynamics” As extreme fire behavior is more frequently observed around the world, there is a need to increase understanding of the role fire-atmosphere interactions have on these events. Part of the problem is the lack of comprehensive observations of the wildfire environment and in particular, fire-atmospheric interactions. This […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary sciences research program, and the talks are intended to appeal to any graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty with a background in planetary science. Speakers include members of the MIT community and visitors. Contact: planetary-org@mit.edu.
Join the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI) and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences for a film screening and discussion about climate change, belief, and talking with people you don't agree with. The award-winning documentary series, True False, Hot Cold, was filmed over three months in a county of Utah that has some of […]
“The Earthquake Virtual Machine: Foundations and Prospects” Earthquakes are among the most damaging natural hazards. While significant progress has been made in understanding earthquake source processes on planar faults in linear elastic domains, the effect of more complex geometries and inelastic rheologies, including plasticity and damage, is poorly understood. Here, we report on our progress […]
“A mechanistic understanding of the seasonality of northern midlatitude precipitation extremes” Previous work investigating the response of extratropical Northern Hemisphere precipitation extremes to climate change identified a seasonal relationship between relative humidity and the dynamic contribution to changes in precipitation extremes. One control on the relative humidity is the plant physiological response to CO2. Here, […]
“From Magma to Energy: Integrative Studies of Volcanic Degassing and Geothermal Potential in Iceland” The recent volcanic eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland likely signal the start of a prolonged period of episodic volcanism, potentially extending over decades to centuries. This seminar will explore recent findings from Open-path Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (OP-FTIR) […]
“Eddies and filaments mediate biogeochemical and ecological succession of coastal upwelled waters in the California Current System” The California Current System is characterized by an equatorward flowing eastern boundary current, as well as seasonal wind-driven coastal upwelling which supplies nutrient-rich waters to the surface and drives high coastal productivity. The transport of these upwelled waters […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
Investigating structural controls on megathrust slip behavior in and around the Guerrero gap off the Pacific Coast of Mexico using active source seismic data Subduction zone megathrusts display a wide spectrum of fault slip behavior, including rapid slip during large earthquakes, slow slip events and tremors. The Middle America Trench off the West coast of […]
“The Rise and Fall of Carbon Cycle Instabilities” Observational records of the global carbon cycle show apparent instabilities throughout the last ∼66 Myr of Earth’s history, in an era known as the Cenozoic. It has been hypothesized that such instabilities are caused by rate-induced tipping events, or a change in the steady state of the […]
“The Tierras Observatory: An Ultra-precise Time-series Photometer to Characterize Nearby Low-mass Stars and their Terrestrial Exoplanets” Although the study of exoplanets has seen dramatic advances in the past decade, the analogs of many of the denizens of our solar system remain beyond the grasp of current observatories. For example, it is not known whether Mars […]
“Inductive Bias is All You Need: Physics-Driven, Machine-Augmented Parameterization for Salty Turbulent Mixing in the Upper Ocean” Ocean models are large and complex numerical solvers of the Navier-Stokes equations in oceanographic settings and can be coupled with atmospheric and land models to produce climate predictions. However, the finest computational grid an ocean model can be […]
“The Rise of Atmospheric Methane, and Prospects for Bending the Curve” Atmospheric methane has nearly tripled since the 18th century. Methane is a strong absorber of infrared radiation, and the higher concentrations make it the second most important human-influenced greenhouse gas (after CO2). Since the residence time for CH4 in the atmosphere is much shorter […]
“Complex flows in the cryosphere” The cryosphere exhibits a diverse range of icy fluid dynamics, from glaciers creeping under their own weight, sea ice drifting in response to winds and ocean currents, to the jamming of densely packed granular mélange. These complex ice flows are fascinating yet challenging to model due to our limited understanding […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
Seminar in Geophysics Lecture portion of EAPS graduate-level class in geophysics, 12.571. All members of the MIT community are welcome to join for presentations by guest speakers, held approximately every two weeks during the term. Contact: erl-info@mit.edu
Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary sciences research program, and the talks are intended to appeal to any graduate students, postdocs, research scientists, and faculty with a background in planetary science. Speakers include members of the MIT community and visitors. Contact: planetary-org@mit.edu.
“A Thousand Earths: A Constellation of Very Large Space Telescopes for Statistical Biosignature Surveys in Extrasolar Planets” Achieving a comprehensive understanding of habitable and inhabited planets, and correct interpretation of biosignatures, requires systematic, statistical studies of large samples of exoplanets. However, the very slow growth of the light-collecting power of space telescopes and their very […]
Each senior in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences will give a talk presenting the results of their senior thesis, followed by a celebratory lunch. Everyone in the EAPS community is encouraged to attend. To join for lunch, please RSVP. For more information, or to request Zoom password: eaps-ed-office@mit.edu Abigail M. Colclasure, SB, […]
“The phylogenetic history of rTCA-based autotrophy in the metabolically diverse phylum, Campylobacterota” Molecular phylogenomics reconstructs the microbial natural history of life using the evolutionary history preserved within the genetics of lineages and their metabolisms, which are informative for reconstructing palaeoecological or biogeochemical shifts over geologic time. A key target for this approach is the reductive […]
This talk has been canceled for 5/17 and will be rescheduled. “Singular perturbation methods in fracture mechanics” Fractures are regularly treated with a so-called small-scale-yielding approximation, which assumes the inelastic deformation of crack propagation is effectively unresolvable from the perspective of an observer of the entire crack. However, one may also zoom into the tip, […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
An informal social gathering of the MIT and EAPS planetary community. Come discuss the latest research, meet new people and reconnect with colleagues. Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary sciences research program, and the talks are intended to appeal to any graduate students, postdocs, research […]
Perspectives on New Subsurface Technologies: CO2, Geothermal, and H2. Tuesday, May 28 | 8-8 pm Full day of talks followed by a river/harbor dinner cruise. Wednesday May 29 | 8-5 pm Half-day of talks followed by a business meeting for our faculty and representatives of our Founding Member companies. A detailed agenda will be posted […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“Studies in Biotic Persistence and the Taxonomic Stability of Traits Over Geological Time” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 TIME: 11:00 AM PLACE: 55-110 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Mick Follows, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Greg Fournier, MIT, EAPS Prof. Kristin […]
“Deformation and its Surface Expression in Stressed Planetary Materials” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 TIME: 12:00 PM PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Taylor Perron, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Matěj Peč, MIT, EAPS Dr. Nori Nakata, MIT, EAPS Dr. […]
Rob van der Hilst, Head of the Department, cordially invites the EAPS community to please join us for a reception celebrating our graduates from the class of 2024 with family and friends! This year's celebration includes a special presentation of the annual student and community awards, recognizing standout performances by members of our department in […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
"Shifting Paradigms: Data-Centric Approach for Marine Statics Correction Using Symmetric Autoencoding" A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Friday, June 21, 2024 TIME: 5:00 PM PLACE: 54-209 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Julien de Wit, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Laurent Demanet, MIT, EAPS Prof. George Barbastathis, […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
“Multi-Proxy Records of Climate and Carbon Cycle Perturbations in the Paleozoic: Integrating Isotope Geochemistry and Sedimentology” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Tuesday, July 22, 2024 TIME: 1:00 PM PLACE: 55-110 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. David McGee, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Professor Kristin Bergman, MIT, […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. David McGee, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Oli Jagoutz, MIT, EAPS Prof. Kristin Bergman, MIT, EAPS Prof. […]
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
EAPS Atrium Talk Series: Informal talks designed to introduce members of the community and make connections with a variety of research being done in the department. During the summer, immediately following the Tuesday Community Coffee Breaks in the atrium, a graduate student, postdoc, research scientist, or faculty member will give a ~20-minute presentation that includes […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“A Lagrangian perspective of mesoscale biophysical interactions in the subtropical ocean” A public presentation of the thesis will be given by the candidate. DATE: Monday August 26, 2024 TIME: 11:30am PLACE: 54-915 and Zoom with pre-registration DEFENSE CHAIR: Prof. Andrew Babbin, MIT, EAPS THESIS COMMITTEE: Prof. Michael J. Follows, Advisor, MIT Dr. Stephanie Dutkiewicz, MIT […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
This week's talk is being held virtually. “Making it rain: Designing a convection-cloud chamber for exploring interactions between aerosols, clouds and precipitation” Clouds are collections of droplets and ice crystals, formed on aerosol particles, all interacting within a turbulent environment. Understanding these interactions is central to current challenges ranging from the influence of clouds on […]
Grab a cup of coffee or tea and a donut and chat with your fellow EAPS colleagues in the atrium of Building 55! Community Coffee is held every Tuesday during the semester. Questions: rteague@mit.edu
“Small fires, large fires: Implications for climate and clean air in India” The Indian region atmosphere receives large injections of emissions from fires on many scales: small, carefully tended cooking fires of home hearths, widespread fires for waste disposal, and large, discontinuous fires from agricultural stubble burning. Increases in levels of anthropogenic aerosols, typically mixtures […]
Kick off the semester with the Fall Planetary Lunch Seminar Meet and Greet — featuring Introduction Karaoke. Come learn a bit more about your fellow planetary science colleagues' research and get to know the new members of our community! Planetary Lunch Seminar Colloquia topics span the range of research interests of the department's planetary […]
“Seismological contributions to understanding volcano dynamics in the western Galápagos islands” The volcanoes of the western Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, are amongst the most dynamic on Earth. The six active basaltic calderas are almost always deforming. Recent eruptions have been preceded by metres of surface uplift and accompanied by metres of subsidence as magma accumulates in, […]
“Winter Changes in the Whites” Winters in New England, like they are in many places across the globe, are getting warmer and shorter. Since 1917, the Northeast has lost roughly three weeks of winter, and with warming trends expected to continue in the coming years and decades, significant challenges are potentially in store for the […]
