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Venice in Boston

January 31, 2022

When Professor Emeritus Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science (EAPS) at MIT was asked to be a consultant for a new exhibit at the Boston...

Setting carbon management in stone

March 17, 2022

Keeping global temperatures within limits deemed safe by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change means doing more than slashing carbon emissions. It means reversing them. “If we want to be...

MIT-WHOI-Joint Program PhD student Nadège Aoki to appear on Jeopardy!

March 22, 2022

PhD student in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program Nadège Aoki will be appearing on Jeopardy! this week. The episode will air Wednesday, March 23rd at 7:30 pm on WBZ-TV CBS in...

MIT welcomes two Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellows for 2022

March 31, 2022

MIT’s School of Science is pleased to welcome postdoctoral scientists Malena Rice and Eva Scheller, recipients of the 2022 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The announcement was made today by the...

Ocean vital signs

April 5, 2022

Without the ocean, the climate crisis would be even worse than it is. Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse...

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

April 7, 2022

Note: This is the final article in a four-part interview series featuring the work of the 27 MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalist teams, which received a total of $2.7 million...

MIT announces five flagship projects in first-ever Climate Grand Challenges competition

April 11, 2022

MIT today announced the five flagship projects selected in its first-ever Climate Grand Challenges competition. These multiyear projects will define a dynamic research agenda focused on unraveling some of the...

Computing our climate future

April 13, 2022

On Monday, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world as...

Looking forward to forecast the risks of a changing climate

April 15, 2022

On April 11, MIT announced five multiyear flagship projects in the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges, a new initiative to tackle complex climate problems and deliver breakthrough solutions to the world...

Outstanding at AGU 2021

April 27, 2022

Two EAPS graduate students received the award for their 2021 presentations at the AGU fall conference Congratulations to Ellen Lalk and Craig Martin who have been given the Outstanding Student...