NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, ATMOSPHERIC AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
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A New Spin on Mercury
Researchers including Maria Zuber, David Smith, and Antonio Genova of EAPS, use gravity and spin data from the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft to determine the state of Mercury's innermost layer.
Read the story at EAPS News
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Life: Born From Ponds?
A new study from Babbin Lab postdoc Sukrit Ranjan and others finds primitive ponds may have provided a suitable environment for brewing up Earth’s first life forms, more so than oceans.
Read the story at EAPS News
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“I think it tells us that when we are trying to interpret the past, it's a really different planet.... I think we are just starting to scratch the surface of what possible mineral outcomes, what kind of textural outcomes we can even expect.”
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Deep Carbon Gatekeepers
EAPS Patrick Beaudry and Shuhei Ono, along with an international team of researchers, help find the first evidence that subterranean life plays a role in removing carbon from subduction zones.
Read the story at EAPS News
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Water Infrastructure Design Amid Uncertainty
Graduate student Megan Lickley co-authors a framework for communities to evaluate temperature and precipitation trends when investing in infrastructure.
Read the story at EAPS News
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Student Profile:
In Exchange of Ideas
The MIT-Imperial Academic Exchange program offers undergraduates, like third-year student Matthew Cotton, a chance to expand cultural and scientific interests.
Read the story at EAPS News
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Planetary Researchers Just Destroyed a Simulated New York City with a Huge Fake Asteroid
In an exercise at the biennial Planetary Defense Conference, Richard Binzel and colleagues evaluated our planetary defense plan — with a hypothetical 200-foot asteroid. Learn more about the threats Earth faces from asteroids, an upcoming space mission to redirect them, and the lessons conference attendees took away.
Read the story at NBC News
ALSO:
Read Binzel's Nature Astronomy paper on the value of asteroid exploration
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The Imperfect Storm
A survey of the range of modeling and simulation tools required for accurate weather prediction—and their limitations. Adam Schlosser explains the considerations taken into account when modeling extreme weather events and their impacts on infrastructure in a changing climate.
Read the story at Scientific Computing World
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While everyone’s been busy with classes and research this month there have been few comings and goings in the department, but we did say goodbye to postdoc Yenny Gonzalesz Ramos of the Ono Group and wish her all the best.
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IN MEMORIAM
Norman Phillips (1923-2019)
The eminent meteorologist and former department head for MIT Meteorology, Course XIX 1970-74, dies at 95.
Read the story at EAPS News
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Celebrating Graduate Women of Excellence
EAPS graduate students Christina Hernandez, Gabriela Serrato Marks, and Maya Stokes honored for their leadership, contributions to the Institute, and outstanding accomplishments.
Read the story at EAPS News
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McGee and Cahoy Awarded Tenure
EAPS congratulates Associate Professors David McGee and Kerri Cahoy—who holds a joint appointment in AeroAstro—upon being granted tenure by the MIT Executive Committee of the Corporation.
Read about David McGee
Read about Kerri Cahoy
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A Steward for Ocean Research and Climate Health
Raffaele Ferrari was selected for the 2019 Ally of Nature Fund Award, bestowed annually by the School of Science to support exploratory projects whose purpose is to prevent, reduce, and repair the impacts of humanity on the natural environment.
Read the story at EAPS News
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ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
The Scientist as Storyteller
Former EAPS graduate student and geology professor Kip V. Hodges PhD '82 discusses the power of narrative. As a scientist and a former journalist, Hodges teaches others to lean on the humanities and arts to help form and convey a compelling scientific story, which sustains the work of science.
Watch courtesy ASU Project Humanities
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MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 54-918
Cambridge, MA 02139
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© 2019 MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
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