Earth and atmospheric sciences

A model of the way the tsunami may have contaminated coastal wells: tsunami waves brought seawater to inland areas where it pooled for several days, before migrating back toward the coast with groundwater flow.

Letters from Sri Lanka

February 18, 2005

Tsunami's impact on well water a concern for MIT

February 14, 2005

Meteorologist thrills to the hazards of blizzards

February 2, 2005

Tropical seesaw: A flooded Amazon means drought in the Congo

January 31, 2005

Predicting the next blizzard

January 25, 2005

Symposium examines evolution of Earth system

March 17, 2004

The class does some climbing at California's Fossil Falls, the remains of a waterfall carved by the Owens River thousands of years ago. Students found obsidian chips and places in the rock where women once ground grain at a Native American settlement on the river bank.

Students dig rock and road on IAP trip

February 4, 2004

Students scale the heights on rock-and-road trip

January 30, 2004

The Hydros satellite will rotate to focus its beam for scanning a wide area of Earth's surface as it circles the planet every 90 minutes at an altitude of 670 kilometers.

Satellite to gather new data on climate

January 14, 2004

This image from Jan. 10 shows the observed temperature (violet is the coldest) and storm circulation (white lines) in the lower troposphere. At this time of year, the coldest air is normally a solid block close to the North Pole, but last Saturday, the cold pool was split into two pieces by warmer air over Alaska with the coldest air displaced southward.

California casts the big chill

January 14, 2004

A view of the area around Northridge, Calif., where the 1994 earthquake occurred, as seen from space.

Space-based technology boosts understanding of earthquakes

December 17, 2003

A geological model of the Northridge earthquake. Researchers are relying increasingly on space-based methods to predict earthquake activity.

Space-based research helps predict earthquakes

December 12, 2003

This flare, one of the largest solar flares ever observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), set off a strong high-energy proton event and a fast-moving coronal mass ejection that hit Earth early on Oct. 29. Scientists at MIT's Haystack Observatory used radars to track the space- weather effects on the ionosphere.

'Perfect storms' upset Earth's atmosphere

December 3, 2003

Asteroid of one-kilometer or larger strikes Earth every 600,000 years

September 10, 2003

Maria Zuber to assume top spot in EAPS

June 12, 2003

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