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Fred Sanders, pioneer storm forecaster, dies

October 27, 2006

Energy experts side with 'Truth'

September 27, 2006

Research led by MIT professor Elfatih Eltahir indicates that trees in a desert forest in Oman survive by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds.

MIT team describes unique desert cloud forest

September 6, 2006

This egg-drop contestant made it only partway down -- to the top of the door into the Green Building -- then broke on impact. The egg drop contest was part of an Aug. 28 orientation event sponsored by Terrascope, a learning community for freshmen that focuses on earth sciences and the environment. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('eggdrop-4-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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An eggs-ellent beginning

September 1, 2006

MIT researchers employed time-lapse vertical seismic profiling (VSP) to help identify natural gas pockets. The left panel shows seismic maps of underground faults and wells that may contain hard-to-get-at reservoirs of oil and gas. The middle and right panels show more detailed data gathered through VSP.

Acoustic data may reveal hidden gas, oil supplies

August 28, 2006

Clock in the rock: MIT geologist leads effort to measure Earth's history

August 14, 2006

Microbe center plumbs depths of ocean life

August 10, 2006

Scientists call for government action to avert disaster

July 25, 2006

Antarctic ocean found crucial to atmosphere's health

July 11, 2006

Human activity linked to rise in hurricanes

May 31, 2006

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