MIT Stories
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MIT News | October 21, 2012
A better way to shed water
Condensers are a crucial part of today’s power generation systems: About 80 percent of all the world’s powerplants use them to turn steam back to water after it comes out of the turbines that turn generators. They are also a key element in desali... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | October 16, 2012
At MIT, Dalai Lama calls for better stewardship of Earth’s resources
Tibetan Buddhist leader urges a more enlightened view of self-interest in remarks at a conference held at MIT this week. EAPS' Kerry Emanuel participates in "Ethics, Economics and Environment" panel. -
Featured Stories, MIT, MIT Oceanography, WHOI | October 14, 2012
Geotraces: Building a Periodic Table for the Ocean
Related topics | Biogeochemical Cycles |Human Influences -
MIT, MIT EAPS | October 4, 2012
Ocean Microstructure and Why Study It?
Grad student Alec Bogdanoff is currently at sea making ocean microstructure measurements. Find out what that means and meet the team he works with at WHOI in today's NASA Earth Observatory blog entry. -
MITgcm News | October 4, 2012
Overflowing with Movies
Nuno Serra from the University of Hamburg has used MITgcm in many ocean modeling projects, both from a process-modelling perspective and "realistically", incorporating forcing from NCEP and ECMWF. He is especially interested in the processes regulating... -
MIT News | October 3, 2012
The mathematics of leaf decay
The colorful leaves piling up in your backyard this fall can be thought of as natural stores of carbon. In the springtime, leaves soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, converting the gas into organic carbon compounds. Come autumn, trees shed thei... -
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 -
Featured Stories, MIT, WHOI | September 27, 2012
An Ocean’s Perspective on the Changing Water Cycle
Related topics | Oceans and Climate | A Warming World -
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... -
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. -
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. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 7, 2012
More than just a “Category 1”
How could we improve the rating systems for natural disasters like hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes: Kerry Emanuel shares his thoughts in the New York Times. -
MIT News | September 6, 2012
Weapon-wielding marine microbes may protect populations from foes
Professor Martin Polz, left, and postdoc Otto Cordero examine a petri dish of Vibrio bacteria.Photo: James M. Long, MIT Competition is a strong driving force of evolution for organisms of all sizes: Those individuals best equipped to obtain resources... -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 6, 2012
Giving Rein to Curiosity
EAPS alumna, Sarah Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist and 2008 PhD recipient, envisions combining academia with public policy. -
MIT, MIT EAPS | September 4, 2012
DEAPS Extreme Weather 2012
From August 22 - August 26, 11 new MIT freshmen took part in Discover EAPS (DEAPS), a freshmen pre-orientation program focused on extreme weather and climate. Led by coordinator Lodovica Illari and 12 other faculty, staff, and graduate and undergr...
