Visualizing a climate-resilient MIT
New climate resiliency dashboard helps reduce uncertainty of current and future flood risks in Cambridge.
New climate resiliency dashboard helps reduce uncertainty of current and future flood risks in Cambridge.
Within minutes, the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011, brought an unprecedented wave of death, displacement, and destruction to Japan.
State and Local Innovation Initiative seeks government partners to rigorously evaluate policies and programs aiming to address critical social issues.
MIT anthropologist Amy Moran-Thomas reflects on the deep connection between planetary and human well-being.
Automated tools can help emergency managers make decisions, plan routes, and quantify road damage at city scales.
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers are investigating how the layouts, or textures, of cities influence extreme weather events.
MIT frameworks are helping the U.S. Forest Service find solutions to fire.
Postdoc Héctor De Jesús-Cortés works to build up the STEM pipeline from his homeland to MIT and beyond.
UROP student Sonia Reilly studies the math of machine learning to improve predictions of natural disasters.
MIT associate professor of urban studies Mariana Arcaya examines health disparities within metro areas.
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub scientist explains how rating systems akin to LEED for resilient construction can make communities more hazard-resistant.
To predict building damage, Kostas Keremidis of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub is modeling structures as ensembles of atoms.
Economic benefits of mitigation arrive much sooner than previously thought.
Lincoln Laboratory's lidar data, processed quickly with support from the organization MCNC, helped FEMA assess flooding and damages caused by Hurricane Florence.
“The human impact that I have is equally, if not more, important to me than the technical rigor of the work I’m doing,” says the senior.