Earth and atmospheric sciences

Hurricane horror mostly bad luck -- for now

November 9, 2005

New web site explores local hurricane risk

September 28, 2005

Aerial image of Grand Isle, La., taken on Aug. 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Post-hurricanes, MIT gets to work

September 28, 2005

Through Friday, Sept. 16, between 12 and 1 p.m., the 35 speakers installed on the south faÃ§ade of the Green Building broadcast an abstract sound collage generated from research data collected in the ionosphere.

'Listening Up' tunes into sounds of science

September 15, 2005

MIT professors quoted on Hurricane Katrina

September 7, 2005

Hurricane Ivan pounds the Gulf of Mexico in 2004.

Hurricanes growing fiercer with global warming

July 31, 2005

Using the new Earth System Modeling Framework, researchers coupled an atmosphere model and an ocean model that had not interacted before. This image depicts the sea surface temperature after five iterations of the simulation. The collaborators on this field test are MIT and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

Scientists give boost to climate change predictions

July 28, 2005

Freshman Lissa Riley, who traveled to the Galapagos Islands as part of MIT's Terrascope program, works on a knot displayed in the lobby of Building 13 as a metaphor for the complexity of pleasing all of the stakeholders in the Galapagos, from residents to tourists and from the government to the ecosystem.

Freshmen exhibit Galapagos lessons

May 17, 2005

New fault found in Himalayas

May 11, 2005

Geologists' find is evolutionary

April 13, 2005

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

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