Events

May
16
2012
54-915 | 12:10pm-1pm

Geography of baroclinic instability and eddy mixing in the ocean

Observations show that the ocean has a ubiquitous, energetic geostrophic eddy field on scales of order 100km. These eddies are thought to play an important role in many...

May
16
2012
MIT @ Parsons 48-316 | 4pm-5pm
May
16
2012
54-915 | 4pm-5pm

An Iconoclast's Guide to Stromatolites

May
18
2012
54-915 | 9am-4pm
May
18
2012
E25-605 | 3pm-4pm

Erik Sperling, Harvard University
"Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals"
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May
18
2012
R&D Cafe, 4th floor Stata Center | 6pm-8:30pm

Join faculty, and staff for the presentation of the 2012:

Goetze Prize for Undergraduate Research
W. O. Crosby Award for Sustained Excellence
Carl-Gustaf Rossby Award and
Graduate Student Teaching Prizes.
Open to...

May
21
2012
54-915 | 12pm-1pm

Title: Equilibration of the Extra-Tropical Atmosphere by Large-Scale Eddies

Speaker's website: http://web.mit.edu/~mfjansen/www/

May
23
2012
54-915 | 12:10pm-1pm

A framework for parameterizing eddy potential vorticity fluxes

May
23
2012
54-915 | 4pm-5pm

The Fracture of Ice on Scales Small and Large: Physical Mechanisms