Climate Science PhD Candidate @eapsMIT. Oceanography, @MITglaciology. @CornellAEP taught me physics. married to @joseph_fridman. she/her
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ALT A picture of a comet as the sun sets; some tree tops are visible at the bottom.
ALT Graphic showing the air temperature in the stratosphere over Antarctica. There are two globes focused on the South Pole. The one on the left is for August 2023. There is a roughly circular shape of black ringed in purple, indicating temperatures around minus 75 degrees Celsius. The surrounding area is orange and yellow, indicating temperatures around minus 55 to minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit. The one on the right is for August 2024 and has a long, thin black and purple area in the center, illustrating how the polar vortex weakened and elongated.
ALT screenshot of article by MIT Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill on MIT Admissions website. abbreviated: 1. After the SFFA decision, we expanded our recruitment and financial aid initiatives to further improve access for students from all backgrounds 2. Despite this, there was still a significant decline in enrollment from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds 3. This is because the SFFA decisions effectively bans our ability to consider race/ethnicity to assemble a broadly diverse class, and students from historically underrepresented backgrounds are underrepresented due to profound racial inequality in American education 4. This big change in class composition comes with no change to the quantifiable academic characteristics of the class 5. However, the SFFA decision threatens the qualitative strength of an MIT education, both by reducing the educational benefits of diversity and by making MIT less attractive to the best students from all backgrounds
ALT Geomorphology can facilitate a better understanding of glacier and ice sheet behaviour in several ways: by moderating glacial response to climate change; by providing rates of glacier change and sensitivity to climate; as information of ice flow properties and basal conditions; and as constraints for ice sheet modelling.
ALT This graphic displays Tornado Watch watch number 448 plotted on a map. The watch is in effect until 8:00 PM EDT. The watch includes parts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. The threats associated with this watch are a few tornadoes likely, scattered hail up to ping pong size possible and scattered gusts up to 70 mph likely. There are 8,239,304 people in the watch along with 2667 schools and 183 hospitals.
