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MIT, MIT EAPS | October 2, 2012
EAPS Alumna Gives Rein to Curiosity
A fling with politics turned into a life-changing career path for Sarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist and 2008 MIT PhD recipient. A former White House fellow working for the President’s Science Advisor, and currently a researcher with the Ha... -
Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant | October 2, 2012
Saving Our Coast’s Most Valuable Marine Plant
Related topics | Ocean Ecology | The Coastal Oceans -
WHOI - Oceanus | September 28, 2012
New Weather-Shifting Climate Cycle Revealed
You know El Niño—now meet the Pacific Centennial Oscillation -
Featured Stories, MIT, WHOI | September 27, 2012
An Ocean’s Perspective on the Changing Water Cycle
Related topics | Oceans and Climate | A Warming World -
Featured Stories | September 27, 2012
Building the Cyberinfrastructure of the Pioneer Array
Related topics | The Coastal Oceans | Ocean Engineering -
Featured Stories | September 27, 2012
Oceans at MIT
Related Topics | History of Oceans at MIT | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -
Featured Stories | September 27, 2012
Greenland Melting? Three Questions with Patrick Heimbach
Related topics | Oceans and Ice | Greenland -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 26, 2012
Where to find a tasty codepod
MIT-WHOI Joint Program grad student Nick Woods and the team from the Autonomous Systems Laboratory at WHOI are helping to untangle the combination of physical and biological processes that create dense patches of the tiny marine organism (codepods... -
WHOI News | September 25, 2012
Newest Navy Research Vessel Is Named Neil Armstrong
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the nation’s newest research vessel will be named the R/V Neil Armstrong, after the renowned astronaut and the first man to set foot on the moon. The ship will be operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic ... -
WHOI News | September 25, 2012
Researchers Highlight Growing Problem of Ocean Acidification
An international group of scientists, including researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, are working to improve communication about the growing problem of ocean acidification to help the public better understand the pressing global is... -
WHOI News | September 20, 2012
Dedication Ceremony Held for New Laboratory
WHOI President and Director Susan Avery and Director of Research Larry Madin were joined by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Deputy Director Willie May at a dedication ceremony Sept. 20 for the new Laboratory for Ocean Sensors and ... -
WHOI - Oceanus | September 20, 2012
Deep-sea Detectives
Follow the trail to unravel a seafloor mystery -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 19, 2012
NASA-JPL director Charles Elachi talks about latest Mars mission
Curiosity is the most ambitious planetary rover mission ever, but it’s just one of the many exploratory projects JPL is undertaking - MIT News reports on Monday's special lecture "Challenges and Excitement of Space Exploration" -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 18, 2012
What the past teaches: meeting today’s global environmental challenges
Atmospheric science pioneer, EAPS Professor Susan Solomon speaks on past environmental accomplishments, technology’s role and how history should be our guide to meeting today’s global challenges. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 17, 2012
When it rains, it pours
Global warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. A new study authored by Paul O'Gorman provides an estimate based on model simulations and observations. -
WHOI - Oceanus | September 14, 2012
Deep-sea Vents Yield New Species
Scientists explore the Mid-Cayman Rise in the Caribbean -
WHOI News | September 13, 2012
New Website Invites Public to Help Identify Seafloor Life and Habitats
A new partnership between oceanographers studying seafloor habitats, Web programmers and social scientists has resulted in a unique, interactive website called “Seafloor Explorer,” which asks members of the public to help identify objects t... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 12, 2012
Mars and Beyond at the MOS
Morgan O'Neill, Da Zhu, Mike Sori, Yodit Tewelde and Glenn Flierl recently participated in the Boston Museum of Science, 2 day "Mars and Beyond" extravaganza, to coincide with Curiosity's arrival on the Red Planet. -
MIT News | September 12, 2012
How to clean up oil spills
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for magnetically separating oil and water that could be used to clean up oil spills. They believe that, with their technique, the oil could be recovered for use, offsetting much of the cost of cleanup.T... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 11, 2012
Study maps pollution’s pathway to the Arctic, sets path for future research
Noelle Selin and Carey Friedman have built a model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments.
