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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Planetary Climates | Speaker: Sara Seager

    "Living in the Goldilocks Zone: Climate Essentials for a Habitable Planet" Sara Seager Class of 1941 Professor, EAPS, Physics. A Symposium...

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  • Welcome to EAPS

    Earth, Planets, Climate, Life: Welcome to the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), the place at MIT where the turbulent oceans and ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Continents & Climate | Speaker: Elfatih Eltahir

    "Regional Climates: Role of Land" Elfatih Eltahir Associate Department Head and Professor, CEE. A Symposium Presented by the Department...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Panel

    "What Should MIT do to Promote Science in Climate Action?" Kerry Emanuel (moderator) Co-director, Lorenz Center and Cecil and Ida Green Professor, EAPS ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Climate Change | Speaker: Ron Prinn

    "Climate Change: The Greenhouse Gamble" Ron Prinn Director, Center for Global Change Science and TEPCO Professor, EAPS. A Symposium...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Welcome & Introduction

    Rob van der Hilst Department Head and Schlumberger Professor, EAPS Maria Zuber E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, EAPS, MIT Vice President for ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Oceans, Ice & Climate | Speaker: John Marshall

    "Climate on a Water World" John Marshall Cecil and Ida Green Professor, EAPS. A Symposium Presented by the Department of Earth, Atmospheric...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Energy & Climate | Speaker: Dennis Whyte

    "Realistic Low-Carbon Energy Alternatives to Combat Climate Change" Dennis Whyte Director, Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Department Head and ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Cities & Climate | Speaker: John Fernandez

    "Urban Metabolism and Climate Change" John Fernandez Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative, Architecture. A Symposium Presented...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Atmosphere & Climate | Speaker: Dan Cziczo

    "Greenhouse Gases versus Clouds: Why Climate is What it is" Dan Cziczo Victor P. Starr Associate Professor, EAPS, CEE. A Symposium Presented...

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  • OPEN Team Why Sci? Interviews Dr. Sara Seager, Prf of Planetary Science and Physics MIT (LONG)

    OPEN Team Why Sci? Interviews Dr. Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Professor of Planetary Science, Professor of Physics, Class of ...

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  • Ben Thompson shares his experience as an undergraduate in MIT's EAPS

    Ben Thompson has an obvious passion for geology, but as he explains, that's a long way from what he thought he would end up majoring in when he first came ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Opening Keynote | Speaker: Marcia McNutt

    "Solving our Climate Challenges: Role of Basic Research" Marcia McNutt Editor-in-Chief, Science. A Symposium Presented by the Department...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Life & Climate | Speaker: Lindy Elkins-Tanton

    "The Complex Relationship between the Atmosphere and Life on Earth" Lindy Elkins-Tanton Director and Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Climate Risks | Speaker: Kerry Emanuel

    "Storms, Droughts and Rising Seas: Climate Change Risks" Kerry Emanuel Co-director, Lorenz Center and Cecil and Ida Green Professor, EAPS ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Climate History of Earth | Speaker: David McGee

    "From Snowballs to Hothouses: The Wild History of Earth's Climate" David McGee Kerr-McGee Development Assistant Professor, EAPS. A Symposium...

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  • "Telescopes" - Crowdfund MIT: US Astronomy Team Summer Training Camp

    Help EAPS step in to help the USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (USAAAO) team by providing access to telescopes, astronomers, and students at a ...

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  • Introducing: Planetary Scientist - Prof. Kerri Cahoy

    Cahoy joined EAPS in July 2011 as an Assistant Professor in the Planetary Sciences Program. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell ...

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  • EAPSpeaks in Brief: Planetary Scientist Sara Seager

    Sara Seager's current focus is on exoplanet atmospheres and interiors. A mere hypothesis until the mid-1990s, over 1800 are known to orbit nearby stars, with ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Policy & Climate | Speaker: Noelle Selin

    "Linking Science with Climate Policy & Decision-Making" Noelle Selin Esther & Harold Edgerton CD Associate Professor, IDSS, EAPS. A...

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  • Introducing EAPS Atmospheric Physicist - Prof. Kerry Emanuel

    Kerry Emanuel is a prominent meteorologist and climate scientist who specializes in moist convection in the atmosphere, and on tropical cyclones. His research ...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Economics & Climate | Speaker: Valerie Karplus

    "Economic Hurdles to Addressing Climate Risks in Emerging Markets" Valerie Karplus Assistant Professor, Sloan. A Symposium Presented...

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  • MIT on Climate = Science + Action | Grassroots Action & Climate | Speaker: Larry Susskind

    "Forging Consensus for Local Climate Risk Management" Larry Susskind Ford Professor Urban and Environmental Planning, DUSP. A Symposium...

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  • Looking Deep in the Earth

    Elizabeth Day is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT. A deep-Earth seismologist, Day is ...

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  • MIT Technology Day 2016: David McGee

    David McGee, Kerr-Mcgee Career Development, Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences speaks at MIT ...

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  • Shaenna Berlin shares her experience as an undergraduate in MIT's EAPS

    In this interview, recorded as she was entering her senior year, Shaenna Berlin shares her experience as an undergraduate in MIT's Department of Earth, ...

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  • Understanding Arctic Sea Ice at MIT

    Read more about Principal Research Scientist Patrick Heimbach's work in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT News: ...

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  • EAPS Lecture - "Pluto Revealed: Latest Results from NASA New Horizons Mission"

    Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) Professor Richard P. Binzel, a science team co-principal investigator for the NASA New ...

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  • Measuring Martian Snowflakes

    Renyu Hu (http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc/people/renyu-hu), a graduate student in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate ...

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  • Women of MIT: Celebrating Science and Engineering Breakthroughs (Session 2)

    Four professors talk in-depth about their most recent research undertakings in the fields of science and engineering. Session Chair: Cynthia Barnhart SM '85 ...

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  • Sara Seager, Astrophysicist, MIT - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

    Interview with Sara Seager, Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, MIT, conducted by science journalist James Bedsole, May, 2015.

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  • MIT-HACK: Tetris at the MIT Green building

    Context: http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2012/04/hackers_convert_mit_building_i.html You can play online at ...

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  • Where Biology and Geology Meet

    Geobiologist, and Hayes Career Dev. Assoc. Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Tanja Bosak ...

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  • Meet an EAPS Undergraduate: Molly

    For her senior project, Molly Kosiarek (XII '15) helped build and automate a telescope system she named the Small AUtonomous Robotic Optical Nightwatcher ...

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  • EAPS in Brief: Geology Professor Oliver Jagoutz

    Oliver Jagoutz is an Assistant Professor of Geology concerned with the origin and evolution of the lithosphere. Favoring addressing scientific questions by a ...

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  • The Oceans in a Warming World - John Marshall

    How are the oceans changing and what role do they play in climate change? John Marshall is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography in the ...

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  • EAPS in Brief: An interview with Raffaele Ferrari

    Cecil & Ida Green Professor of Oceanography at MIT Raffaele Ferrari studies the circulation of the ocean, its impact on present and past climates, and its role on ...

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  • At the intersection of biology and physics in the ocean

    Mick Follows is a Senior Research Scientist in the Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (http://eaps-www.mit.edu/paoc), part of the Department of Earth ...

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  • OPEN Team Why Sci? Interviews Dr. Sara Seager, Prof of Planetary Science at MIT (Short Version)

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  • Observe@MIT: Observing the sky at MIT

    Observe@MIT is a series of astronomical observation sessions led by astronomer and planetary science lecturer Amanda Bosh. Members of the MIT community ...

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  • EAPS in Brief: Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald

    Atmospheric chemist Professor Colette Heald joined MIT this spring as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in EAPS and Civil and Environmental ...

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  • Life on the Edge: A short film about biofilms

    Prior to his arrival at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, Crosby Postdoctoral Fellow Giulio Mariotti's research focus had been ...

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  • Undaunted Exploration: Revealing our Solar System from Asteroids to Pluto

    On November 30, 2016, MIT Professor Richard P. Binzel spoke to a meeting of the New England Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and ...

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  • Inspiration in a Spray Can: Michael McClellan

    Atmospheric chemistry graduate student Michael McClellan joined the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) in fall 2013. In this ...

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  • OPEN Team Why Sci? Interviews Dr. Sara Seager Prf of Planetary Science and Physics MIT (SHORT)

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  • Introducing Atmospheric Scientist - Prof. Ron Prinn

    Ronald G. Prinn is the TEPCO Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry, Director of the Center for Global Change Science and Co-Director of the Joint Program on ...

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    In this movie we see a simulation of a landscape, viewed from above, evolving over millions of years due to rivers cutting down into rock, tectonic uplift of that ...

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  • Michael Sori - EAPS Grad. Student

    Graduate student Mike Sori studies planetary science. His particular research interest is understanding the nature and variations in cratering of Earth's moon.

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  • Yodit Tewelde

    Yodit Tewelde is a graduate student in the Planetary Science Program in EAPS. Childhood planetarium visits and a love of reading science fiction novels, meant ...

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