MIT Stories

• MIT, MIT EAPS | August 27, 2015

  Paul O’Gorman: Extreme storm modeler

  MIT News profiles Prof. Paul O'Gorman, an atmospheric scientist who tracks climate change's effect on extreme storms
• MIT News | August 12, 2015

  Better estimates of worldwide mercury pollution

  New findings show Asia produces twice as much mercury emissions as previously thought.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | July 22, 2015

  Dynamic Deltas

  MIT-WHOI Joint Program graduate student Jaap Nienhuis has been working on a new metric which may help engineers determine how the shape of a river delta, such as the Mississippi’s, may shift in response to engineered structures such as dams and ...
• MIT, MIT EAPS | July 20, 2015

  Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton

  Study led by principal research scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz finds many species may die out and others may migrate significantly as ocean acidification intensifies.
• Featured Stories, MIT News | June 9, 2015

  Study: Ocean Source of a Greenhouse Gas has been Underestimated

  MIT News reports on a new study that suggests cycling of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide is more intense than previously thought, and emissions are increasing. Read it here. Related Topics | Biogeochemical Cycles | Oceans and Climate|
• MIT, MIT EAPS | June 3, 2015

  A Check on Runaway Lake Drainage

  MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Laura Stevens, and EAPS Professor Tom Herring team up with others from WHOI and eleswhere in a study of Greenland supraglacial lake drainage.
• MIT News | May 6, 2015

  MIT engineers hand “cognitive” control to underwater robots

  With MIT-developed algorithms, robots plan underwater missions autonomously.
• MIT News | May 6, 2015

  Researchers unravel secrets of hidden waves

  Region of world’s strongest “internal waves” is analyzed in detail; work could help refine climate models.
• MIT News | May 4, 2015

  India drift

  MIT researchers explain mystery of India’s rapid move toward Eurasia 80 million years ago.
• MITgcm News | April 23, 2015

  Red Sea Crossing

  Using MITgcm to investigate the origin of a mid-basin cross-over current in a study of the buoyancy driven circulation in the Red Sea.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | April 14, 2015

  An Ocean of Opportunity

  Using tiny marine microbes to model climate change: MIT News profiles Associate Professor Mick Follows.
• MIT, MIT EAPS | March 26, 2015

  Five from EAPS are Environmental Solutions Initiative Seed Grant Winners

  Projects involving Glenn Flierl, Noelle Selin, Colette Heald, Shuhei Ono and Roger Summons are among nine selected to receive seed funding.
• MITgcm News | March 23, 2015

  Not Finding Nemo

  Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have been using MITgcm to study larval dispersal in the Red Sea.
• Featured Stories, MIT News | March 12, 2015

  Chisholm Sees Big Impacts from Small Sources

  MIT News covered this year's Killian Lecture featuring MIT Oceanographer Penny Chisholm, discoverer of world’s most abundant and prolific photosynthetic organism. Related topics | Oceans and Life
• MIT, MIT EAPS | March 7, 2015

  Falling Snow Records

  The winter of 2015 became the snowiest Boston has ever seen. MIT Meteorologist Lodovica Illari shares her thoughts on the science behind these extreme weather events and what caused them.
• MIT News | March 5, 2015

  New detector sniffs out origins of methane

  Instrument identifies methane’s origins in mines, deep-sea vents, and cows.
• MIT News | February 26, 2015

  A mollusk of a different stripe

  Optical features embedded in marine shells may help develop responsive, transparent displays.
• MITgcm News | February 17, 2015

  Falling Water

  Students make a splash using MITgcm to model falling water in a lab tank during an NSF funded undergraduate research program last summer.
• MIT News | February 3, 2015

  Waves in the deep

  New study examines role of acoustic-gravity waves as ocean transport, early warning of tsunamis.
• MIT Sea Grant | January 4, 2015

  MIT Sea Grant 2016 Research Funding Opportunity: Ocean Acidification

  The next MIT Sea Grant research funding opportunity will be announced in early January. Among the focus areas identified in the MIT Sea Grant Strategic Plan, assessing impacts to coastal waters and habitats are of importance for managing healthy coast...