Earth and atmospheric sciences

Symposium examines evolution of Earth system

March 17, 2004

The class does some climbing at California's Fossil Falls, the remains of a waterfall carved by the Owens River thousands of years ago. Students found obsidian chips and places in the rock where women once ground grain at a Native American settlement on the river bank.

Students dig rock and road on IAP trip

February 4, 2004

Students scale the heights on rock-and-road trip

January 30, 2004

The Hydros satellite will rotate to focus its beam for scanning a wide area of Earth's surface as it circles the planet every 90 minutes at an altitude of 670 kilometers.

Satellite to gather new data on climate

January 14, 2004

This image from Jan. 10 shows the observed temperature (violet is the coldest) and storm circulation (white lines) in the lower troposphere. At this time of year, the coldest air is normally a solid block close to the North Pole, but last Saturday, the cold pool was split into two pieces by warmer air over Alaska with the coldest air displaced southward.

California casts the big chill

January 14, 2004

A view of the area around Northridge, Calif., where the 1994 earthquake occurred, as seen from space.

Space-based technology boosts understanding of earthquakes

December 17, 2003

A geological model of the Northridge earthquake. Researchers are relying increasingly on space-based methods to predict earthquake activity.

Space-based research helps predict earthquakes

December 12, 2003

This flare, one of the largest solar flares ever observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), set off a strong high-energy proton event and a fast-moving coronal mass ejection that hit Earth early on Oct. 29. Scientists at MIT's Haystack Observatory used radars to track the space- weather effects on the ionosphere.

'Perfect storms' upset Earth's atmosphere

December 3, 2003

Asteroid of one-kilometer or larger strikes Earth every 600,000 years

September 10, 2003

Maria Zuber to assume top spot in EAPS

June 12, 2003

Zuber to head Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

June 10, 2003

Trading on earthquake patterns

May 21, 2003

Blame it on the Rockies

May 7, 2003

Analysis of GPS navigation signals monitored at over 120 sites provides a snapshot of ionospheric total electron content (TEC) over North America during a major geomagnetic disturbance. A large scale plume of storm enhanced density (SED) spans the continent from a source region in the eastern US. The bold red contour marking TEC > 50 units outlines the low-altitude footprint of the TEC plume. T...

MIT researchers use earth-based tools to image weather in space

Results could lead to improved satellite transmissions

May 6, 2003

Unidentified woman tries to shield herself from the elements as she approaches the main entrance to MIT.

New England's wild weather is all about location, location, location

May 2, 2003

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