Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University studies the processes that shape the Earth, from the primeval forces surrounding its formation to pressing environmental issues of the present.

Affiliation: Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Web site: http://www.eps.harvard.edu/

Recent articles about Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Expert: Lift taboo on Earth engineering (September 23, 2009)
Huybers and Mahadevan named MacArthur Foundation Fellows (September 22, 2009)
Geology is destiny (June 9, 2009)
Unusual Antarctic Microbes Live Life on a Previously Unsuspected Edge (National Science Foundation, April 16, 2009)
Microbes thrive in harsh, isolated water under Antarctic glacier (April 16, 2009)
Taking a stride toward synthetic life (March 7, 2009)
Riding — and reading — the Earth tide (January 28, 2009)
Hotter seasons coming earlier, research finds (January 21, 2009)
Climate options must include ‘all of the above’ (January 1, 2009)
Researchers study glaciers on Earth’s coldest desert (December 30, 2008)
For science adviser, dogged work against global perils (New York Times, December 23, 2008)
John P. Holdren named President-elect Obama’s Science Advisor (December 20, 2008)
Global warming threatens his nation's existence, a president warns (September 30, 2008)
Mars' water appears to have been too salty to support life (May 28, 2008)
Sulfur dioxide may have helped maintain a warm early Mars (December 20, 2007)
Oceans are back on Mars (Harvard University Gazette, June 13, 2007)
Visualization Lab provides data in three dimensions (Harvard University Gazette, September 14, 2006)
Tilting at ice ages (Harvard University Gazettte, July 26, 2006)
Global warming yields 'glacial earthquakes' in polar areas (Harvard University Gazette, March 23, 2006)
Climate choices: Grim and grimmer (Harvard University Gazette, October 6, 2005)

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