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“Newer, nimbler, faster”: Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid
With multiple rovers landed and a mission set to return samples to Earth, Mars has dominated the search for life in the solar system for decades. But Venus has some...
Greg Fournier named a winner of the first Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award
Greg Fournier, Associate Professor of Geobiology in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), was awarded the 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award in September. His project is one...
Could acid-neutralizing life-forms make habitable pockets in Venus’ clouds?
It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is...
Scientists build new atlas of ocean’s oxygen-starved waters
Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in certain pockets where oxygen naturally plummets and waters become unlivable for most aerobic organisms. These desolate pools are “oxygen-deficient zones,”...
Four winners announced for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Rossby Awards
The Carl-Gustaf Rossby Prize Committee has announced Tristan Abbott PhD ’20 and Madeleine Youngs PhD ’20 as the recipients for the 2020-2021 Rossby award, while also naming Megan Lickley PhD...
Predator interactions chiefly determine where Prochlorococcus thrive
Prochlorococcus are the smallest and most abundant photosynthesizing organisms on the planet. A single Prochlorococcus cell is dwarfed by a human red blood cell, yet globally the microbes number in...
3 Questions with Megan Cokely, new SDO at EAPS
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) is pleased to welcome Megan Cokely, the department’s new Senior Development Officer (SDO). She started on January 3rd. Cokely graduated from...
Understanding air pollution from space
Climate change and air pollution are interlocking crises that threaten human health. Reducing emissions of some air pollutants can help achieve climate goals, and some climate mitigation efforts can in...
Three with MIT ties win 2022 Churchill Scholarships
Tara Venkatadri, who is minoring in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), was recently tapped as one of two MIT seniors to be selected as a 2022 Churchill Scholar. Venkatadri,...
Shaking up earthquake research at MIT
Major environmental events write their own headlines. With loss of life and crippling infrastructure damage, the aftershocks of earthquakes reverberate around the world—not only as seismic waves, but also in...