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Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth’s oxygenation
For the first 2 billion years of Earth’s history, there was barely any oxygen in the air. While some microbes were photosynthesizing by the latter part of this period, oxygen...
2021 Paul Gray Faculty Award Winner: Kristin Bergmann, PhD
In 2021, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Professor Kristin Bergmann was awarded the Paul Gray Faculty Award for Public Service, which is named in honor of MIT’s 14th president...
A systems level approach to biogeography
A new CBIOMES paper presents, for the first time, an interpretation of observed, strain-level, basin-scale biogeography using genome-scale modeling of cellular metabolism, physiology, and fitness. Read this at CBIOMES The...
Q&A: Climate Grand Challenges finalists on accelerating reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions
This is the second article in a four-part interview series highlighting the work of the 27 MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalists, which received a total of $2.7 million in startup...
Setting carbon management in stone
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!
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
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
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
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
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...