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MIT astronomy class asks the big-picture questions about the future of our species
...provide a space where the student can reflect on these experiences, and how there could be opportunities to see change,” says Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science (EAPS) Professor...
Reducing Risk, Empowering Resilience to Disruptive Global Change
...the MIT Climate Resiliency Committee is working to shore up multiple, interdependent layers of resiliency that include the campus site, infrastructure and utilities, buildings and community, and creating modeling tools to evaluate...
Antarctic sea ice may not cap carbon emissions as much as previously thought
...Antarctica through this capping and shading effect.” Gupta’s coauthors are EAPS Professor Michael “Mick” Follows, and EAPS research scientist Jonathan Lauderdale. The role of ice Each winter, wide swaths of...
3 Questions: COVID-19 shutdowns highlight complex chemistry in the atmosphere
...uses laboratory-based studies to understand how organic compounds chemically change in the atmosphere. Heald, who holds appointments in both CEE and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS),...
Frank Press, MIT geophysicist and U.S. science adviser, dies at 95
...Times, one of his father’s proudest achievements as Carter’s science adviser was paving the way for students to come to U.S. universities from Communist China. The expansion of this initiative...
Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids
...Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), is second-in-command as the deputy principal investigator on the mission. While she was busy preparing the spacecraft for launch,Co-Investigator Scientist Richard Binzel,...
Remote work: MIT’s next-gen planet-hunting telescope scans the night sky alone
...check-up visits from operations managers. Artem Burdanov, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) is one of them. “It requires a minimum of human...
Massachusetts Space Week Panel Event — The Search for Life in the Universe
...life elsewhere in our solar system—and beyond—with our panel of experts as your guide: Richard P. Binzel (MIT EAPS) Sara Seager (MIT EAPS) Bill Diamond (SETI Institute) Gabriela Radulescu (Smithsonian...
Nanograins make for a seismic shift
...common microcrystals. But the nanocrystals became significantly stronger when the deformation rate was accelerated. Pec, professor of geophysics and the Victor P. Starr Career Development Chair, compares this characteristic, called...
What Do Earthquake Forecasting and Cancer Treatment Have in Common?
...MIT EAPS Visiting Committee. He attributes his ability to cross disciplines to the humility he learned at MIT, which made him unafraid to ask questions outside his comfort area, even...