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The Isotope Lab @eapsMIT is a participant in the Anadarko Basin coring project (#DeepDust), supported by @icdpDrilling and @NSF. Coring began on August 16 and exceeded 1 mile as of last weekend. @J_Ramez is on site right now as part of the science team. icdp-online.org/projects/by-…
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MIT researchers, including several affiliated with CS3, are advancing tools to help evaluate a location’s vulnerabilities to flooding, cyclones, humid heat waves, or other #climate-related events. #ExtremeWeather #Resilience tinyurl.com/bdea2566
![The “New World of Weather” project, one of MIT’s five Climate Grand Challenges announced in 2022, is “advancing the science, technologies, and practical strategies needed to help communities anticipate [extreme weather] and build greater resilience,” says MIT Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang.
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ALT The “New World of Weather” project, one of MIT’s five Climate Grand Challenges announced in 2022, is “advancing the science, technologies, and practical strategies needed to help communities anticipate [extreme weather] and build greater resilience,” says MIT Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang. Credits: Image: iStock
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What better way to understand climate risks than through a game? With the help of a J-WAFS grant, EAPS PRS Sai Ravela has created a game that helps communities discover ways to improve their collective agricultural resilience. buff.ly/Kt112Iv
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New research has found that peptides - short strings of amino acids - remain stable in extremely acidic environments such as the clouds of Venus. This opens up the types of planets that could host life.
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By looking at ancient mineral grains in a meteorite sample collected in Antarctica, EAPS Professor Ben Weiss and alumni Cauê Borlina estimate that magnetism likely playing a significant role in the formation of the our solar system, including the sun.
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NASA's Pandora mission has started scientific observations! The satellite will observe exoplanet transits, helping refine our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres and how they interact with light as we search for habitable planets in our universe.
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New system upgrades means that MIT's Haystack Observatory can now become a critical piece of instrumentation for MIT's Planetary Defense Project, measuring space objects that could pose a hazard to Earth.
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Hello, Mars 👋 The NASA Psyche spacecraft completed a flyby of the red planet in May, and took the opportunity to test out its on-board instruments to make sure everything is functioning properly on its @MissionToPsyche in 2029.
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EAPS Prof Dan Rothman and Sergei Petrovskii from the University of Leicester found that the mismatch in the rate at which the environment changes on a global scale and the rate at which species adapt can determine the severity of a mass extinction event.
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While the concrete is hot today in Cambridge, it's not to blame for rising global temps. Urban heat islands only change estimates of how much the world has warmed since 1900 by 0.01°C. Cities don't cover enough of the earth to compete with CO2 emissions.
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Congrats to EAPS Professor Carl Wunsch on receiving a Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the BBVA Foundation! His pioneering research on oceans "epitomizes the power of collaborative science to answer fundamental questions".
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Old hack, new tricks: The Green Building Tetris hack is up and running again, thanks to the dedication of a collection of MIT students who were willing to sink countless hours and resources into redesigning the hardware.
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The ocean changes when the atmosphere changes, and ocean circulation plays a critical role in not only ecosystems and heat transfer but carbon transportation. Professor Raffaele Ferrari talks about oceans and climate on the Climate Reveal podcast.
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Scientists have confirmed the detection of organic molecules on Mars. They were found in a sample collected by NASA's Curiosity Rover and analyzed using the rover's on-board mini lab called the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM).
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EAPS professor Julien de Wit is this year's keynote speaker for Beyond the Cradle, where leaders, researchers and visionaries across the space industry come together to envision a new space age. MIT community members can register FOR FREE: buff.ly/9ByJA1d
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Samples collected from asteroid Ryugu contain nucleobases, commonly called the building blocks of life. They have also been found from samples collected from asteroid Bennu, suggesting that the chemical ingredients for life may be common beyond Earth.
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Climate sensitivity measures how much the global average temperature will increase if CO2 levels double. EAPS postdoc Vincent Cooper has placed the upper bound on climate sensitivity at 4 degrees celsius, one degree lower than previously estimated.
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Often called an "atmospheric detergent", hydroxl radical (OH) breaks down the greenhouse gas methane. A new model shows that rising planetary temperatures can both improve and hinder their creation, making their effectiveness in the future unclear. buff.ly/xT9RJZg
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Scientists from WHOI, Columbia and MIT have identified major compounds released by ocean phytoplankton that play a key role in returning carbon to the atmosphere, helping build realistic representations of marine microbial communities in the carbon cycle. buff.ly/AkdaCc0
ALT Six test tubes filled with phytoplankton cultures.
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EAPS prof Talia Tamarin-Brodsky and collaborators derived an equation for simplified wave breaking, offering a dynamical explanation for Rossby Wave Breaking events.The paper, published in @AguAdvances, was recently highlighted by @AGU_Eos
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