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EAPS presentation schedule at AGU 2025

December 8, 2025

Categories: Community, Events + Outreach

When we remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, how long does it stay locked away?

December 4, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

An image taken by the Cassini spacecraft of the geysers on Enceladus.

NASA selects project investigating ocean worlds and organic molecules in the search for life beyond Earth

December 3, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets

Where the Ocean and Atmosphere Communicate

December 2, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Profile

Health and Climate: Noelle Selin on Climate Reveal podcast

November 24, 2025

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

A figure can be seen standing near a marge crack in the ground caused by the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake.

Eos: The Ridgecrest Earthquake Left Enduring Damage in Earth’s Deep Crust

November 15, 2025

Categories: In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research

John Marshall honored with postdoctoral mentoring award

November 14, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Richard Binzel standing next to Donald W. Landry and receiving a plaque award for the Barry Prize.

Richard Binzel awarded 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement

November 13, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Weather vs Climate: SRS Adam Scholsser on Climate Reveal Podcast

November 10, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media

When scientists reconstruct ancient climates from ice cores, how do they create an accurate timeline?

November 7, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A graphic announcing the presentation schedule for the 2025 Graduate Climate Conference.

2025 Graduate Climate Conference EAPS Presentation schedule

November 6, 2025

Categories: Community, Events + Outreach

A photo of Madonna Yoder in her workshop, alongside some complex origami tessellation pieces.

Infinite folds: Madonna Yoder ’17 is an expert in tessellations

October 24, 2025

Categories: Alumni

Two informative graphics, one depicting oxygen-deficient zones in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico and South America, and another depicting temperature predictions over North America.

Two EAPS affiliates receive 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data

October 22, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community

Tom Herring stands in front of a large dam.

Geology Bites: Tom Herring talks High-Precision Geodesy

October 20, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards

Artist’s illustration of early Earth with fire, lava, volcanos, and meteors.

Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old “proto Earth”

October 14, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Research

A selfie of Laurent Demanet in his office.

Laurent Demanet appointed co-director of MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering

October 7, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

A Mobile Laser Scanning truck parked near a surface rupture in the California desert.

Earthquake damage at deeper depths occurs long after initial activity

October 6, 2025

Categories: Landscapes + Planetary Interiors, Natural Hazards, Research, Students + Postdocs

Michael McClellan poses in an empty baseball stadium. He is wearing a ballcap and has TB on his sweatshirt. The home plate area can be seen behind him and the stands are behind that. The word RAYS is spelled out behind the seats.

Michael McClellan PhD ’18: Data on the Baseball Diamond

October 2, 2025

Categories: Alumni

Rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope, located in a mountain setting with many stars at night.

MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope

September 30, 2025

Categories: Planets

A variety of sea sponges, some tall and cylindrical, some wide and flat, and some bowl-shaped.

The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, study suggests

September 29, 2025

Categories: Life + Environments, Research, Students + Postdocs