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Ronald G. Prinn

Ron Prinn’s research incorporates the chemistry, chemical evolution, dynamics and physics of the atmospheres of the Earth and other planets. Current projects involve atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemistry, climate science, and...

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli is a physical oceanographer whose interests include: investigation and modeling, both mathematical and numerical, of nonlinear coherent structures such as oceanic rings shed by western boundary currents and...

Daniel Rothman

Research Interests I am a theoretical scientist. My current interests focus on understanding how the organization of the natural world emerges from the interactions of life and the physical environment....

Leigh Royden

Research Interests I combine geology and geophysics to study the Earth’s crust, how it changes when tectonic plates collide, and how that activity is connected to processes deep in the...

Sara Seager

Professor Sara Seager is an astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics, Professor of Planetary Science, and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she...

Noelle Eckley Selin

Noelle Selin is the Director of the MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, a program incorporating and succeeding both the Center for Global Change Science and Joint Program on...

Gene Simmons

Geophysicist Gene Simmons earned his BS in electrical engineering in 1949 from Texas A&M College, and an MS in Geology, with a minor in physics, from Southern Methodist University in...

Susan Solomon

Research Interests Within my group at MIT, we seek to understand chemistry-climate coupling—how atmospheric chemistry influences atmospheric behavior, and vice versa—at both poles of the Earth, as well as in...

John Southard

A specialist in geomorphology and sedimentology, John B. Southard received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1960 and his doctorate in geology from Harvard University in 1966. After a National...

Peter H. Stone

Peter Stone, a distinguished figure in climate science, began his academic journey with a degree in astronomy and a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University. As a Junior Fellow...