MIT CEE Archives - Page 12 of 118

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Exploring the Whitsundays

June 28, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Zoe Lallas ’20 This weekend found four-fifths of the MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative just about four hours south of our home in Townsville in the Whitsunday Islands on a boat. Eager to explore Australia […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Cutting Coral Cores

June 28, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Zoe Lallas ’20 Working at the Australian Institute for Marine Science (AIMS) the past two months has been full of learning experiences and odd jobs. Each member of the Great Barrier Reef Initiative was able […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Week 1 in Italia

June 26, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Cleverine Cong ’21 Last week, a group of 15 jetlagged rising sophomores arrived in Rome for the Course 1 experience of a lifetime – ONE MA3. Here are a few things, not related to research, […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus

June 25, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Rachel Weissman ’21 This morning we traveled to the Parco Degli Acquedotti. This park, located 9km outside of Rome, contains the largest collection of intact Roman aqueducts. As we walked around the sunny park, archeologist […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Masters of Mortar

June 24, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today began with a lecture on geo polymers, limestones, and ancient building materials by the revered Gilberto Quarneti. We learned the steps to make limestone and some of the history behind how […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Home, Home on the Range, where the Cows and the Engineers Play

June 24, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Amber VanHemel ’19 After a 45-minute drive, we pulled up to a cattle farm in Woodstock, Australia. However, this is not your typical farm…it is actually a research facility that belongs to Commonwealth Scientific and […]

Professor Oral Buyukozturk receives George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring

June 22, 2018 | 2018 News in Brief | ceemit

Professor Oral Buyukozturk received the 2018 George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The medal was awarded for his “pioneering and transformative developments in video-based structural […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Castle Living

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 The Castle Caetani has been our home for the past week, and we’re finally getting used to living in a medieval castle. The girls live down the steps toward the stables, and […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Koala Sanctuary

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The MIT Great Barrier Initiative team began working on projects at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) on Tuesday. By the end of the week, research had been initiated on the […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Exploring Ninfa

June 21, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today we began by touring the Ninfa Gardens, which was built on a medieval city that was destroyed in 1382. Our guide explained how the city of Ninfa was a linking point […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Snorkeling in Australia

June 20, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Zoe Lallas ’20 After traveling for almost 48 hours to get from Chicago to the other side of the world, I met up with the other MIT students to finally unite the MIT Great Barrier […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Learning Photogrammetry and DPI

June 20, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Rachel Weissman ’21 After a weekend of kayaking and beaches, we began our real work on Monday, June 18. In the morning we received a guest lecture from Diego Ronchi, a doctorate student at the […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Adventuring with Area.3

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 Today it seemed as if we were adopted by an extended Italian family – the family who operates the Gruppo Canoisti Pontini, aka Area.3, in Sermoneta. They took us trekking up to […]

ONE-MA3 2018: Balancing conservation of nature and history

June 19, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Patricia Gao ’21 Trees yawned. Water sparkled. Flowers bloomed, in the midst of clouds of butterflies. All of it happened around, over, and through the remains of a medieval village. This was the most romantic […]

ONE-MA3 2018: A Day in Priverno

June 18, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

By Sophie Cohen ’21 A metal triangle hangs on the side of the Caetani Castle’s kitchen exterior, and the chefs’ children hit it with a hammer to signal meal times. This is how our day began, […]