News + Impact - MIT EAPS

A map of the Pacific Ocean showing cruise tracks overlaying a temperature gradient of the ocean.

Warming oceans may threaten key oxygen-producing microbe

September 9, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments, Research

Stephanie Dutkiewicz in front of computer display

Research Insight: the role of marine microbial diversity and dynamics in climate models

September 1, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Life + Environments

Ryan Woosley in an orange suit and on a large stretch of snow in Antarctica.

3 Questions: Ryan Woosley on changes in ocean acidity and carbon

September 1, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Health of the Planet

Boston skyline with decorative background.

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

August 26, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers, Research

The pursuit of reliable earthquake forecasting – Camilla Cattania for Physics Today

August 11, 2025

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

Four from EAPS earn chaired professorships

July 14, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Portraits of Kristin Bergmann and William Frank

Kristin Bergmann and William Frank promoted

July 01, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Community, Faculty + Senior Researchers

The crater-covered far side of the moon.

Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answer

May 23, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Planets, Research, Students + Postdocs

Susan Solomon joins Royal Society of Chemistry Honorary Fellows

May 14, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

What if it Works? Podcast: Hydrogen beneath our feet with Brad Hager

May 7, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Resources

Ben Weiss elected to the National Academy of Sciences

April 29, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Woman and children walk over sandbag embankment in Bangladesh.

Hundred-year storm tides will occur every few decades in Bangladesh, scientists report

April 11, 2025

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

Julien de Wit is talking with Artem Burdanov while he types at a computer.

Julien De Wit and Artem Burdanov talk planetary defense on WCVB’s Chronicle

April 2, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, In the Media, Natural Hazards, Planets

Noelle Selin elected to 2024 class of AAAS Fellows

March 27, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

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

How do we know what the Earth’s climate was like millions of years ago?

March 21, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

TIL Climate Podcast: Hasn’t the climate changed before?

March 6, 2025

Categories: Climate, Faculty + Senior Researchers

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

February 25, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Natural Hazards

Side-by-side headshots of Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay.

Oliver Jagoutz and Gaia Stucky de Quay appointed to named professorships

February 12, 2025

Categories: Awards + Promotions, Faculty + Senior Researchers

Andrew Babbin sits inside with Boston skyline in background.

Seeking climate connections among the oceans’ smallest organisms

February 6, 2025

Categories: Faculty + Senior Researchers, Profile