Events

[PAOCQ] Yi Zhang (New York University)

Date: Monday, May 12, 2025 Time: 12:00 - 2:00pm Location: 55-110 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window

“Atmospheric Limits on Heat Extremes” How hot can a heatwave get? And what about humidity that makes the heat more dangerous? Much research has focused …

[ESS] Xingchen Wang (Boston College)

Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 Time: 10:00 - 11:00am Location: 55-110 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window

“Ocean fertilization, carbon sequestration, and deoxygenation: From Miocene to Anthropocene” Ocean fertilization—the addition of limiting nutrients such…

[PLS] Kate Follette (Amherst College)

Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025 Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window

“Too Big to Form: Accreting Planetary Mass Companions as a Key Piece of the Planet Formation Puzzle” We are entering an exciting era where it is possibl…

ERL Annual Founding Members Meeting 2025

Date: May 20 - 22, 2025 Location: 55-109 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA

Solid Earth Science for the Energy Transition — For over thirty years, the Earth Resources Laboratory has been MIT’s home for earth science and engineer…

[ESS] Hamish Mitchell (MIT)

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 - 11:00am Location: 55-110 | MIT Campus, Cambridge, MA Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window

Earth Science Seminar — Lecture portion of the EAPS graduate-level class 12.571, covering current research in geophysics, geology, geochemistry, and geo…

[PLS] End of Year Community Gathering

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2025 Time: 12:30 - 1:30pm Attend Virtually opens in a new tab/window

Join your fellow MIT planetary scientists for a light lunch and open discussion. There will not be a formal agenda as this is primarily an opportunity t…