Earth and atmospheric sciences

MIT algorithms were used to create this map, which shows a geological structure that traps oil many kilometers below the earth's surface.

Algorithms put to use in oil hunt

May 17, 2006

At MIT's Morphodynamics Laboratory, research scientist James Buttles adjusts the inflow valve of a sediment-laden, gravity-driven current flowing in an experimental channel. Observing how the sediment is deposited in and around the channel is providing new insights into the structure of oil-rich sediment-filled channels found deep under the sea floor.

Undersea channels studied to aid oil recovery

May 2, 2006

MacVicar Fellows Leslie Norford, second from left, and Dennis Freeman, third from left, were feted for educational excellence on Friday, March 3. Joining them are, from left, Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel Hastings, President Susan Hockfield, Provost L. Rafael Reif and Victoria MacVicar, sister of Margaret MacVicar. Not pictured is MacVicar Fellow Samuel Bowring.

Three awarded MacVicars for great teaching

March 8, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006

MIT team analyzes wind energy potential in Northeast

December 21, 2005

Hurricane horror mostly bad luck -- for now

November 9, 2005

Aerial image of Grand Isle, La., taken on Aug. 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Post-hurricanes, MIT gets to work

September 28, 2005

New web site explores local hurricane risk

September 28, 2005

Through Friday, Sept. 16, between 12 and 1 p.m., the 35 speakers installed on the south faÃ§ade of the Green Building broadcast an abstract sound collage generated from research data collected in the ionosphere.

'Listening Up' tunes into sounds of science

September 15, 2005

MIT professors quoted on Hurricane Katrina

September 7, 2005

Hurricane Ivan pounds the Gulf of Mexico in 2004.

Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming

July 31, 2005

Using the new Earth System Modeling Framework, researchers coupled an atmosphere model and an ocean model that had not interacted before. This image depicts the sea surface temperature after five iterations of the simulation. The collaborators on this field test are MIT and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Scientists give boost to climate change predictions

July 28, 2005

Freshman Lissa Riley, who traveled to the Galapagos Islands as part of MIT's Terrascope program, works on a knot displayed in the lobby of Building 13 as a metaphor for the complexity of pleasing all of the stakeholders in the Galapagos, from residents to tourists and from the government to the ecosystem.

Freshmen exhibit Galapagos lessons

May 17, 2005

New fault found in Himalayas

May 11, 2005

Geologists' find is evolutionary

April 13, 2005

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