Stefan Helmreich conducts fieldwork aboard the unique FLIP ship
MIT anthropologist is researching how scientists understand waves.
MIT anthropologist is researching how scientists understand waves.
Trailblazing scientists Jule Charney and Edward Lorenz gave us numerical weather prediction and chaos theory, highlighting the value of basic research.
Students put their AI software for underwater vehicles to the test on the Charles River.
New acoustic analysis could pinpoint impacts by meteorites or possibly plane debris.
Method may help predict hotspots of instability affecting climate, aircraft performance, and ocean circulation.
Alison Criscitiello PhD '14 seeks ice cores in inhospitable locations, sometimes camping on ice sheets and sleeping with a shotgun in case of bear attacks.
Grantees will spend the 2017-2018 academic year conducting research abroad.
Simons Foundation supports enhanced computer infrastructure for MIT's Darwin Project, which focuses on marine microbes and microbial communities.
Study finds ocean circulation, coupled with trade wind changes, efficiently limits shifting of tropical rainfall patterns.
Study finds large amounts of carbon dioxide, equivalent to yearly U.K. emissions, remain in surface waters.
Startup’s novel aluminum batteries increase the range of UUVs tenfold.
Insights into the hydrodynamics of the move may improve underwater vehicle design.
Turbulence from seafloor topography may explain longstanding question about ocean circulation.
Bacteria can survive in marine environments that are almost completely starved of oxygen.
Awards to recent alumni honor the memory of Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in earth and atmospheric sciences.