Posts for tag "MIT"
Undercover Marine Bacteria Killers: New Lineage of Non-tailed Viruses Identified
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is using benthic macroinvertebrates to monitor water quality and making their data public.
- Posted February 28, 2018
Northeast Pacific Acidification From Anthropogenic Carbon Calculated
Scientists led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have measured the acidification owed to anthropogenic carbon in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
- Posted October 12, 2016
Amidst Temperature Records, Southern Ocean Is Cooling
MIT scientists use circulation models to study the Southern Ocean, which is cooling despite warming trends.
- Posted August 19, 2016
Prototype Air Quality Sensors Tackle Delhi, India Air
Air quality sensors in development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology may help bring down costs and up the resolution of Delhi, India air monitoring.
- Posted July 8, 2016
MIT Scientists Find Cause Of Past Ice Age: Massive Carbon Sequestration
For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has been relatively stable. But around 80 million years ago, temperatures plummeted during an ice age. Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology think they have figured out why the...
- Posted May 31, 2016
Seismic Waves Track Greenland’s Ice Melt
MIT researchers have found a new way to monitor changes in Greenland’s ice sheet: seismic waves. The waves occur as the ocean crashes against the ice sheet, creating vibrations that can be detected and measured with high...
- Posted May 25, 2016
MIT Study Yields New Insights Into Global Mercury Cycle
A recent study led by scientists at MIT shows that Asian countries emit 1,770 tons of mercury per year, or more than twice the previously accepted estimate. It also changed what we thought we knew about how...
- Posted September 9, 2015
Desert Dust Blown Into The Ocean Drives Phytoplankton Growth
Phytoplankton growth is being significantly influenced by desert dust blown into the ocean, according to a recent MIT press release. Dust from desert storms in Mongolia and China is carried in the wind and deposited into the...
- Posted September 1, 2015
New Method Allows For Predicting River Delta Shapes
Researchers at MIT have determined a new way to find what shape river deltas will take, which will help them determine how lands could change for people who live in river delta regions and whether the lands...
- Posted July 30, 2015
Future Ocean Acidification May Help Some Phytoplankton, Decimate Others
The oceans of the world continue to acidify as they take up more carbon due to human activities. The acidification will cause many disruptions in the future, especially among phytoplankton, who are the basis of the entire...
- Posted July 27, 2015
Levels Of Oceanic Greenhouse Gas Underestimated
Research by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has provided a way to quantify the cycling of nitrous oxide in the ocean, according to a release. Scientists say their techniques show that levels of the greenhouse...
- Posted June 5, 2015
MIT undergrads characterize Kīlauea’s volcanic smog
Undergraduate students at MIT use sulfur dioxide and aerosol measuring devices to characterize volcanic smog coming out of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano.
- Posted April 20, 2015
