News + Impact - MIT EAPS

The U.S. research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer photographed from a drone at Thwaites Glacier ice front in February 2019.

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet, In the Media

Brent Minchew on Curiosity Unbounded, episode 14: Putting a glacier in its place

February 25, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards

Ask MIT Climate: What are the best- and worst-case scenarios for sea level rise?

June 12, 2024

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

A glacier flows into a fjord in the southwest coast of Greenland.

Microscopic defects in ice influence how massive glaciers flow, study shows

May 30, 2024

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

A three shot of Andrew Babbin, Tim Cronin, and Brent Minchew,

Three EAPS faculty granted tenure

May 7, 2024

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Sensing the world around us

June 26, 2023

Categories: Climate, Events + Outreach, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors

Brent Minchew smiles at the camera in front of an expanse of snow and ice.

Brent Minchew promoted to Associate Professor

June 08, 2023

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Frozen

August 24, 2022

Categories: Profile, Students + Postdocs

Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on using data and science to forecast climate-related risk

April 7, 2022

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards, Research

Study: Ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously thought

March 10, 2022

Categories: Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Mission Mojave: IAP 2022 geophysics fieldwork

February 17, 2022

Categories: Community

MIT Climate Grand Challenges: Ice Sheets and Sea-Level Prediction

February 16, 2022

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

Glaciologist Brent Minchew contributes to new Arctic exhibit at Museum of Science

February 16, 2021

Categories: Events + Outreach, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Tiny sand grains trigger massive glacial surges

June 12, 2020

Categories: Climate, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research