MIT Chemistry and EAPS NewsEmmaLee Pallai will disseminate best practices for recruiting, building, and maintaining inclusive and equitable academic communities, and promote shared values of excellence, belonging, openness, integrity, and mutual respect.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsKang’s research focuses large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, and their effects on the climate of Earth and other planetary bodies. Her appointment is effective July 1, 2022.
Lauren Hinkel and Alice McBride | EAPS NewsMIT professors contribute decades of visionary teaching and research, and an endowed chair in climate and geosciences.
Through the Porthole | MIT-WHOI Joint ProgramStudents in the Joint Program come from a variety of backgrounds: from microbiology, to physics, to mechanical engineering, to marine science.
Ron Prinn, Opinion Contributer | The HillMIT TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Science Ron Prinn pens an op-ed for The Hill laying out our current climate risks and how the U.S. is performing with respect to its climate targets.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsWilcots and Shivamoggi have gone above and beyond to empower and mentor fellow students and researchers within MIT and EAPS on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Sabrina Pirzada | CliMARobustly predicting Earth’s climate is one of the most complex challenges facing the scientific community today. By leveraging recent advances in the computational and data sciences, researchers at CliMA are developing new methods for calibrating climate models and quantifying their uncertainties.
International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans Carl Wunsch, the EAPS Professor Emeritus of Physical Oceanography, has been awarded the 2021 Prince Albert I Medal, recognizing "his groundbreaking contributions to the development of modern physical oceanography."
Sara Cody | Department of Aeronautics and AstronauticsStudent-led efforts preserve iconic campus landmark for future generations of education and research.
Jenning Chen, Alejandro Diaz, Jillian James, Gaurav Patekar, Julie Simpson, Lowry Yankwich, Susan Murcott | MIT D-LabEight months ago, in September 2020, artists Andrew Boyd and Gan Golan unveiled the first U.S.-based Climate Clock at “the Metronome,” a public art wall in New York City, on the south side of Union Square.
MIT Better WorldIn this MIT Better World (Sustainability) breakout session, hosted by the MIT School of Science in March 2021, David McGee and Jeremiah Johnson, professors in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Chemistry, respectively, present aspects of their research programs that impact the prediction of precipitation and the creation of useful, but less harmful, materials of the future.
Ari Daniel PhD '08 | Slice of MITGoreau—whose family’s story is told in the new documentary Coral Ghosts—has borne witness for seven decades to the steady global decline of coral reefs, which have degraded into fields of rubble and algae.
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsFindings show how the trace metal is chemically altered in the anoxic, modern ocean and provide the basis for investigating paleorecords of atmosphere composition shifts.
Alison Gold | School of ScienceElise Myers ’14, SM ’14 is researching the behavior of bacteria to predict whether water will be safe for recreational use.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News OfficeAs atmospheric concentrations of CFC-11 drop, the global ocean should become a source of the chemical by the middle of next century.
Alison Gold | MIT School of ScienceAddressing climate change, Solomon was among scientists who revealed the clock’s 2021 position at 100 seconds to midnight.
Alice McBride | EAPS News“Arctic Adventure: Exploring with Technology” is a gateway to research in the far north—and brings to life polar land- and seascapes that are key components of Earth’s ecosystem and climate.
Whales May Owe Their Efficient Digestion to Millions of Tiny Microbes
Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionMIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Henry Holm coauthors study showing how whales are able to break down high-energy molecules in their food that other animals have difficulty with.
Continuing a Legacy of Antarctic Exploration
Fatima Husain | EAPS NewsEAPS Summons Lab examines lipids from Antarctic microbial communities to understand the evolution of complex life on Earth and life that existed during "snowball Earth."
October242019
The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole
Susan Solomon | NatureThe unexpected discovery of a hole in the atmospheric ozone layer over the Antarctic revolutionized science — and helped to establish one of the most successful global environmental policies of the twentieth century.
September152019
How a Volcanic Eruption Set Off a Phytoplankton Bloom
Robin George Andrews | The New York Times ScienceLava from Kilauea in Hawaii flowed into the Pacific last year and pushed nutrients to the surface. The result was a banquet for light-loving microbes.
August292019
Bacteria Feeding on Arctic Algae Blooms can Seed Clouds
Abigail Eisenstadt | AGUA new study co-authored by EAPS graduate student Astrid Pacini finds that bacteria normally found near the sea floor was present in the air above the ocean surface, suggesting ocean currents and turmoil help make the bacteria airborne.
NASA Makes Dual Investment in Ocean Worlds Research at WHOI
Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionAgency funds five-year effort to understand the potential for life in outer solar system and establishes a new Network for Ocean Worlds. Collaborator EAPS professor and oceanographer John Marshall is working with the team looking at ice moons.
June122019
An Escape Route for Carbon
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Study shows minerals sequester carbon for thousands of years, which may explain oxygen’s abundance in the atmosphere.
April232019
Tracking Radium in the Arctic
Hannah Piecuch | Oceanus MagazineA conversation with Jessica Dabrowski, second-year graduate student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, who recently travelled to the Arctic to study the impact of climate change.
Ozone Hole: How We Saved the Planet
PBSA new PBS documentary explores how scientists, including Susan Solomon, worked together to prevent an environmental catastrophe.
April12019
Who’s Who? Who’s New?
Lauren Hinkel | EAPS NewsThis April, EAPS welcomes two new members to the department, postdoctoral associates Xiaozhou Ruan and Justin Jacquot.
The climate optimist
Amanda Schaffer | MIT Technology ReviewSusan Solomon is profiled in Tech Review for her work on how CFCs caused the Antarctic ozone hole—and how we can make progress on addressing climate change.
A Universal Law for the ‘Blood of the Earth’
Joshua Sokol | Quanta MagazineThe EAPS Rothman group shows how simple physical principles can be used to describe how rivers grow everywhere from Florida to Mars.
November192018
Roger Summons on 'Proof' podcast
An interview with Prof. Summons on gas chromatography–mass spectrometry on "Proof, America’s Test Kitchen" podcast.
October312018
The Search Continues
Nicole Estvanik Taylor | MIT SpectrumMIT Spectrum on PAOC member Julien de Wit joining the TRAPPIST team.
October172018
How Hurricane Michael Became a 'Worst-Case Scenario'
Robinson Meyer | The AtlanticProfessor Kerry Emanuel speaks on Hurricane Michael's climate-addled rapid intensification with The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and more.
Emanuel selected to the 2018 Class of AGU Fellows
Eric Davidson and Mary Anne Holmes | EOSThe elected Fellows are AGU members whose visionary leadership and scientific excellence have fundamentally advanced research in their respective fields.