Featured Stories

• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 20, 2017

  PAOC Faculty Promotions

  Congratulations to Michael Follows and David McGee for their recent promotions, recognizing their achievements and contributions to the department.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 7, 2017

  Aerocene Soars at the 47th World Economic Forum Meeting

  Climate-conscious sculptures influence world perspectives in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 6, 2017

  Faculty Promotions

  The Executive Committee of the Corporation has approved the promotion of Michael Follows to Full Professor and David McGee to Associate Professor (effective July 2017.)
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | February 1, 2017

  Transparent, Gel-based Robots Can Catch and Release Live Fish

  Made from hydrogel, robots may one day assist in surgical operations, evade underwater detection.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | January 31, 2017

  How the smallest, most abundant bacteria inspired a children’s book series

  Institute Professor Penny Chisholm teams up with author and illustrator Molly Bang to write environmental children’s book series.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 31, 2017

  Atmospheres, Oceans and Planetary Studies on Display at AGU

  Over the week of December 12th, members of MIT’s PAOC attended the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 49th annual Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
• Featured Stories, MIT News, News | January 30, 2017

  Explained: Greenhouse gases

  Carbon dioxide isn’t the only one that matters, and the gases vary widely in potency and duration. By David L. Chandler | MIT News Office When hearing the words “greenhouse gas,” most people think immediately of carbon dioxide. This is indeed the greenhouse gas that is currently producing the greatest impact on the Earth’s rapidly changing … Continue reading Explained: Greenhouse gases →
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 30, 2017

  Solomon is 2017 National Academy of Sciences Medalist

  Susan Solomon, the Lee and Geraldine Martin Professor of Environmental Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will receive the 2017 National Academy of Sciences, Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 26, 2017

  Ono is 2017 EAG Medallist

  Prof Shuhei Ono receives the 2017 Paul Gast Lectureship of the European Association of Geochemistry.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | January 26, 2017

  Celebrating Pauline Morrow Austin: A Founder of Radar Meteorology

  MIT Faculty, friends and family of Mrs. Austin gathered to remember her life and commemorate her contributions to science with the unveiling of an exhibit in EAPS.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News, WHOI | January 17, 2017

  Observing and Modeling the Arctic Ocean and Sea Ice: A Meeting in Woods Hole

  Last November, a group of MIT researchers joined scientists from around the world to attend the fifth meeting of the Forum for Arctic Modeling & Synthesis (FAMOS) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, News | January 17, 2017

  Mother-of-Pearl Holds the Key to Historical Ocean Temperatures

  Studying this iridescent material in mollusk shells may give scientists a more accurate way to track historical ocean temps.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | January 10, 2017

  Short-lived greenhouse gases cause centuries of sea-level rise

  Through warming effects, methane and other gases impact rising seas long after leaving the atmosphere.
• Featured Stories, MIT Sea Grant, News, WHOI | January 8, 2017

  Dr. Don Anderson: Using robots to measure toxins in the ocean

  Funded by MIT Sea Grant, Dr. Don Anderson’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and others has developed a robotic system that can monitor blooms of toxic algae and their toxins in real time.
• Featured Stories, News, WHOI - Oceanus | January 5, 2017

  Communicating Under Sea Ice

  Engineers use ocean channel to efficiently relay sound
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | January 2, 2017

  Students, academics, and entrepreneurs join forces to tackle the future of water utilities

  Fifth annual MIT Water Summit brings together interdisciplinary panelists to give multiple perspectives on major issues surrounding the water sector.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | December 20, 2016

  Samuel A. Bowring Receives 2016 Walter H. Bucher Medal

  Samuel A. Bowring was awarded the 2016 Walter H. Bucher Medal at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 14 December 2016 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for "original contributions to the basic knowledge of crust and lithosphere."
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News | December 19, 2016

  New study sets oxygen-breathing limit for ocean’s hardiest organisms

  Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen.
• Featured Stories, MIT, MIT News, News, WHOI | November 23, 2016

  Saharan Dust in the Wind

  Scientists find huge reduction in African dust plume led to more Saharan monsoons 11,000 years ago.
• Featured Stories, MIT, News | November 18, 2016

  Replicating Ancient Fossilization

  Using modern microbes to understand the preservation of marine bacteria