MIT Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT, News | June 3, 2016

  Response of Global Climate to the Antarctic Ozone Hole

  A distinguished group of meteorologists, oceanographers and climatologists will assemble at MIT on June 7-8th, 2016 for the third annual progress meeting of the NSF-supported Ozone and Climate Project, which aims to understand the role of the Antarctic ozone hole and its importance in the global picture of climate change.
• MIT Sea Grant | June 1, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Strategic Planning 2018-2021 – Join Us June 8!

  MIT Sea Grant asks for your assistance in preparing our 2018-2021 strategic plan in support of the Sea Grant mission (2014 plan). Separate panels will be convened to consider the research, education and advisory outreach programs, respectively. Since we need input from the whole community, we would like to invite you to participate our panel meetings.
• MIT Sea Grant | May 25, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Strategic Planning 2018-2021 – Join Us June 1!

  MIT Sea Grant asks for your assistance in preparing our 2018-2021 strategic plan in support of the Sea Grant mission (2014 plan). Separate panels will be convened to consider the research, education and advisory outreach programs, respectively. Since we need input from the whole community, we would like to invite you to participate our panel meetings.
• MIT, MIT EAPS, News | May 23, 2016

  Happy Birthday to the Father of Chaos Theory

  MIT EAPS professor Kerry Emanuel remembers a mentor of his, Edward Lorenz
• MITgcm News | May 20, 2016

  2016 ECCO Joint Project Meeting

  This month we spotlight the ECCO meeting held May 16-18, 2016 at MIT.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News | May 20, 2016

  Study Pinpoints Timing of Oxygen’s First Appearance in Earth’s Atmosphere

  Beginning 2.33 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen built up in just 10 million years.
• MIT Sea Grant | May 19, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Strategic Planning 2018-2021 – Join Us May 25!

  MIT Sea Grant asks for your assistance in preparing our 2018-2021 strategic plan in support of the Sea Grant mission (2014 plan). Separate panels will be convened to consider the research, education and advisory outreach programs, respectively. Since we need input from the whole community, we would like to invite you to participate our panel meetings.
• MIT Sea Grant | May 18, 2016

  RESCUES Guide Book: Helping to make fishing communities safer

  This manual contains step-by-step guidance that will help prepare individuals, groups and entire communities for crises affecting members of the commercial fishing industry.
• MIT Sea Grant | May 9, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Strategic Planning 2018-2021 – your help needed

  The National Sea Grant's mission is to provide integrated research, communication, education, extension and legal programs to coastal communities leading to the responsible use of the nation's ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources. MIT's Sea Grant requests input and comment for its 2018-2021 strategic plan.
• MIT News | May 6, 2016

  Tracking Greenland’s ice melt with seismic waves

  Technique uses vibrations generated by crashing ocean waves to monitor ice sheet's seasonal changes.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | May 6, 2016

  New Antarctic Ice Sheet Physics Could Explain Ancient Sea Levels and Predict Future Ones

  Oceans at MIT sits down with glaciologist Christian Schoof to discuss how "ice cliff collapse" in Antarctica could have produced the Pliocene's high sea levels.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | May 3, 2016

  EAPS Dives into the Pale Blue Dot at the 2016 Cambridge Science Festival

  For MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), every day is Earth Day. But on April 22nd, 2016, they were excited to share their knowledge and enthusiasm for it with the greater Boston community at the MIT Museum during the Cambridge Science Festival.
• MIT Sea Grant | May 1, 2016

  Professor Otto Cordero is awarded the 2016 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization

  Congratulations to professor Otto Cordero, the recipient of MIT Sea Grant's 2016 Doherty Professorship in Ocean Utilization.
• Featured Stories, MIT News | April 28, 2016

  MIT outlines progress on its five-year climate action plan

  Progress report underscores strong collaboration across campus to address climate change.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | April 28, 2016

  Oceans Alive!: Trawling in the Charles

  Ahead of the 2016 Cambridge Science Festival and MIT’s centennial celebration, postdocs from MIT’s EAPS and PAOC chartered a sailboat to collect plankton from the Charles River. Here, they had a chance to interact with the organisms and environment that they model and would discuss with visitors the next day.
• MITgcm News | April 20, 2016

  Shelf Life

  This month we focus on work led by Hajoon Song, a postdoc at MIT, who has been using MITgcm to explore nutrient sources for the Patagonia Shelf Region.
• MIT Sea Grant | April 18, 2016

  MIT Sea Grant Spring Newsletter

  MIT Sea Grant has selected three research projects for funding from our annual request for proposals. The projects focus on understanding the impacts of ocean acidification and will collectively receive approximately $600 thousand in federal funding, with just over $300,000 in matching state, local, and private funding over a two year period.
• MIT News | April 18, 2016

  Study: Ancient tectonic activity was trigger for ice ages

  Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration.
• Featured Stories, MIT | April 14, 2016

  Southern Ocean Cooling in a Warming World

  In contrast to environmental changes due to global warming, new research from MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate indicates that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean may be experiencing a period of cooling before warming takes over. And the culprit might be the ozone hole rather than greenhouse gases.
• MIT, News | April 14, 2016

  Evolution of Motivations for Climate Action

  Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science with MIT’s Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate weighs in on how some motivations for climate action have evolved since the film "An Inconvenient Truth" premiered.