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Natalya Gomez receives 2023 AGU James B. Macelwane Medal

September 14, 2023

Former EPS PhD. candidate Professor Natalya Gomez of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at McGill University has been selected to receive the American Geophysical Union’s 2023 James B. Macelwane Medal, awarded annually to three to five early career scientists in recognition of their significant contributions to Earth and space science. AGU, the world's largest...

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Lucas Vargas Zeppetello receives 2023 AGU James R. Holton Award

September 14, 2023

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello was recently awarded the James R. Holton Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU).  The James R. Holton Award is presented annually and recognizes outstanding scientific research and accomplishments from honorees within three years of receiving their Ph.D. This award serves to acknowledge exceptional contributions at an early stage of the awardee’s career. AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association,...

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2023 Sep 18

EPS Colloquium - Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, Harvard University

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Geo Mus 102 (Haller Hall) and Zoom

Do stomata respond to variations in atmospheric humidity?

A growing literature argues that ecosystem-scale evapotranspiration is more sensitive to drying of the atmosphere because of stomatal regulation by plants than to reductions in surface soil moisture. Past studies analyzed observations, for which it is difficult to conclusively control for potential relations between plant physiology, measurable state variables like vapor pressure deficit (VPD) or soil moisture, and the ecosystem-scale water flux. Here, we analyze natural mechanism-denial experiments at non-vegetated...

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Graduate Student Ju Chulakadabba featured in The Harvard Gazette

April 13, 2023

When Ju Chulakadabba was in elementary school in Thailand, she learned that industrial emissions are one important way that humans are changing the global climate. That’s when she realized that trying to make a difference wouldn’t necessarily be a far-off concern in her case, but a family matter. 

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Professor Steve Wofsy featured in The Harvard Gazette

March 27, 2023

For Steven Wofsy, the satellite is worth sticking around for.

Wofsy, an atmospheric scientist who spent decades investigating climate change, could be enjoying retired life at age 76, but he still has an active lab. Admittedly most projects there are winding down, with one exception: MethaneSAT, which could prove to be something of a game changer.

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Harvard Crimson Article Featuring Professor Peter Huybers and Postdoc Jonathan Proctor

October 12, 2022

A new research study by Harvard faculty is shedding light on the significant influence of water supply on global crop yields and its connection to climate change.

The team — led by Harvard Earth and Planetary Sciences professor Peter Huybers — included Harvard Center for the Environment postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Proctor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute postdoctoral fellow Duo Chan, and UC Irvine professor Angela Rigden.

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2022 Nov 07

EPS Colloquium - Katherine de Kleer, CalTech

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Geo Mus 102 (Haller Hall) and Zoom

Talk Title:  The Thermal Histories of Solar System Moons and Small Bodies

Abstract:  The heat flow of a planetary body plays a major role in defining its evolution and current composition, driving processes from internal differentiation during its formation period through geological activity at the current time. However, these same active processes erase many of the surface signatures that would allow us to reconstruct its long-term thermal history. In this talk, I will present novel observational approaches, using primarily the ALMA interferometer...

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2022 Oct 24

EPS Colloquium - Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Geo Mus 102 (Haller Hall) and Zoom

Talk Title: Quantifying causes and consequences of historical changes in extreme climate conditions

Abstract:  Although the world is making progress in ramping up ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through global, national, local and non-governmental frameworks, it has now also become clear that we are already being impacted by the global warming that has already occurred...

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2022 Apr 18

EPS Colloquium - Professor Charles Ichoku, Howard University

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Geo Mus 102 (Haller Hall) and Zoom

Talk Titlte:  Wildfires and Climate

Abstract:  Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. These fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes that comprise different species of aerosols and trace...

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Ding Ma

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Kuang Group

Ding Ma received his Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard University. Advised by Prof.ZhimingKuang, his dissertation research investigated three dominant patterns of large-scale atmospheric variability, namely the South Asian monsoon, Madden-Julian Oscillation and the annular mode.Beforemoving back to Harvard, he was an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia University, where he was working with Prof. Adam Sobel to explore extreme weather associated with large-scale variability. His work emphasizes a combination of observational analysis andnumerical modeling. Guided by observations, numerical experiments are designed and conducted to pursue a better theoretical understanding of the large-scale atmospheric variability in the past, present and future. The main goal of his work is to identify essentialphysical mechanisms governing the large-scale circulation variability.... Read more about Ding Ma

dingma@fas.harvard.edu

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