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EPS 52 students co-authors on paper examining artificial water impoundment and sea level change.

Students in the Fall 2024 co-hort of EPS 52 are co-authors on a recent paper titled, “True Polar Wander Driven by Artificial Water Impoundment: 1835-2011”. The paper exams how artificial water impoundment contributed to sea level change during the 20th century. Graduate student, Natasha Valencic, led the study, working with…

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Roger Fu and Sarah Steele featured in Harvard Gazette article.

Evidence suggests Mars could very well have been teeming with life billions of years ago. Now cold, dry, and stripped of what was once a potentially protective magnetic field, the Red Planet is a kind of forensic scene for scientists investigating whether Mars was indeed once habitable and, if so,…

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Jerry Mitrovica featured in article from the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.

If you imagine the effect melting polar ice caps have on sea levels, you might picture a uniform rise around the world – like sitting down in a bathtub, or like the crow dropping pebbles, one by one, into Aesop’s pitcher. For a long time, that view dominated among scientists.