Search

Julien de Wit talks “puffy Jupiters” and new exoplanet questions with NBC Boston

Two back-to-back exoplanet discoveries out of MIT have raised interesting questions about planetary composition. EAPS Professor Julien de Wit took a moment to speak with NBC Boston about future avenues...

Braakman, Rogier

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

Chronicle, the WCVB-TV Boston newsmagazine, recently aired a feature piece on MIT’s culture of creative thinking and interdisciplinary innovation — with EAPS Associate Professor Julien de Wit and Research Scientist...

Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier” with Brent Minchew

Brent Minchew, MIT Class of 1948 Career Development Professor and Chair of the EAPS Program in Geophysics, recently co-founded the Arête Glacier Initiative to fund research investigating the causes of...

Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite

EAPS Professor Richard Binzel helped organize a celebration 100 years after the Johnstown meteorite landed in the Colorado town of Johnstown. In the 90s, Binzel was part of the NASA...

Climate scientist Kerry Emanuel elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society

...Atmospheric Science in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), is among 62 exceptional scientists elected as Fellows, Foreign Members, and Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society this...

A rare peek into Apophis

...asteroids. MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) research scientist Francesca DeMeo is working with David Polishook of the Weizmann Institute of Science, as well as EAPS postdoc...

Simpler models can outperform deep learning at climate prediction

...a former EAPS postdoc who is now a research scientist at IBM Research; senior author Raffaele Ferrari, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography in EAPS and co-director of...

Commencement 2025 Roundup: Degrees Earned

Each year, students from EAPS and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program turn in an impressive array of planetary and geoscience research, helping to advance human understanding of the natural world. In...

Carl Wunsch honored with Frontiers of Knowledge Award

...oceanography and its climate implications throughout his career as a professor in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). Through a mix of observational methods, Wunsch has been...