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• Featured Stories | August 17, 2018

  O’Gorman Awarded 2018 School of Science Teaching Prize

  EAPS Associate Professor, Paul O'Gorman, is honored for excellence in graduate teaching.
• Featured Stories | July 31, 2018

  China Could Face Deadly Heat Waves Due to Climate Change

  One of the world’s most densely populated regions may push the boundaries of habitability by the end of this century, study finds.
• Featured Stories | July 31, 2018

  Jimmy Gasore Receives the 2018 Rossby Award

  The prize is given for the best PhD thesis done the preceding year within PAOC.
• Featured Stories | July 25, 2018

  Description and Evaluation of the MIT Earth System Model (MESM)

  Results from the latest version of MESM compare favorably with those produced by more computationally intensive models
• Featured Stories | July 18, 2018

  Study Finds Climate Determines Shapes of River Basins

  Results may help identify ancient climates on Earth or other planets.
• Featured Stories | June 19, 2018

  Study: Climate Action Can Limit Asia’s Growing Water Shortages

  Following the Paris accord could reduce risk of severe water-access problems, researchers find.
• Featured Stories | June 19, 2018

  Tracking Air Quality Changes Across Space and Time

  Modeling advance enables more efficient and precise estimates
• Featured Stories | June 19, 2018

  Checking China’s Pollution, By Satellite

  Study finds reduction in sulfur emissions from power plants.
• Featured Stories | June 18, 2018

  A Change Has Come in the Arctic

  MIT-WHOI graduate student Lauren Kipp's research travels reveal how a rise in radium in the ocean signals climate-related changes along the coast.
• Featured Stories | June 13, 2018

  Targeting One of Climate Modeling’s Biggest Uncertainties

  New method enables faster, more accurate simulation of aerosol-cloud interaction
• Featured Stories | June 5, 2018

  Using Machine Learning with Physical Models to Predict Extreme Events

  Talking Shop: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Themistoklis Sapsis
• Featured Stories | June 4, 2018

  Meet the School of Science’s Tenured Professors for 2018

  Six faculty members are granted tenure in four departments, including Dan Cziczo from the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
• Featured Stories | May 24, 2018

  How the Earth Got its Oxygen

  Video: MIT EAPS professors Greg Fournier and Tanja Bosak explain how molecular clocks, as well as modern biogeochemical and sedimentological processes in microbial systems can provide clues to when and how oxygen levels rose in Earth's atmosphere.
• Featured Stories | May 24, 2018

  MIT Joint Program Researcher Selected for “Make Our Planet Great Again” Program

  Chien Wang one of six new U.S. scientists to join French climate research initiative
• Featured Stories | May 18, 2018

  McGee Receives Excellence In Mentoring Award

  EAPS Associate Professor of Paleoclimatology, David McGee, has been awarded the Excellence In Mentoring Award by the office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming.
• Featured Stories | May 11, 2018

  Workshop Explores Intertwined Future of Food Production, Water, and Climate

  Choices by consumers and farmers can help limit global warming, but climate change may also curtail those choices in the future.
• Featured Stories | May 4, 2018

  Daniel Cziczo Awarded Tenure

  Daniel Cziczo holds positions with the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate within the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
• Featured Stories | May 4, 2018

  A Forum on the Future of the Nile River

  International workshop proposes future directions for long-standing conflict.
• Featured Stories | May 3, 2018

  Clearing the air over Southeast Asia

  Study finds reducing biomass burning is not enough to significantly improve air quality in Southeast Asia. Photo: Southeast Asia shrouded by smoke (Source: NASA Earth Observatory) By Mark Dwortzan | MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change In recent years Southeast Asia has seen a significant increase in the intensity and … Continue reading Clearing the air over Southeast Asia →
• Featured Stories | April 26, 2018

  What Will We Eat in the Year 2050?

  Combining art and science to envision the global food system under climate change
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