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Ambient Sensing, a half-day symposium presented by the MIT.nano Immersion Lab, featured talks by MIT faculty and researchers from multiple disciplines who highlighted that sensing and senor technology research is all around us from up in the sky to below the Earth’s surface and deep in the ocean.
Thwaites Glacier, coined as the ‘doomsday glacier’, contributes an estimated 4 percent of annual sea level rise. Stanford modeling research, published in March, reveals how this melting could occur and indicates that the unique topography around and beneath Thwaites contributes to glacial widening and glacial retreat.
Ten faculty in the MIT School of Science are appointed named professorships in biology; Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences; mathematics; and physics.