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TREX Day 3 – Plant Life

January 15, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was a pants kind of day. Our group started off adventuring into the woods behind the house to take something called a transect. Professor Dave Des Marais walked 50 feet straight […]

TREX 2018 Day 3: Rocks! Lava! Steam! Fun!

January 20, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By Meghan Reisenauer ’19 Kilauea’s craters seen from above Day 3 in Hawai’i began with a hike to the Kilauea Iki crater. After stopping for photos at the lookout, where we could see both Halema’uma’u crater […]

TREX 2018 Day 3: Biodiversity in the Kilauea Iki Crater

January 20, 2018 | TREX 2018 | ceemit

By Ju Chulakadabba ’19 While the world has roughly 13 climate zones, Hawaii has more than ten of these climate zones in its small islands. As an environmental engineering student, I am interested in various things […]

Professor Dave Des Marais joins Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

October 10, 2017 | 2017 News in Brief | ceemit

[fusion_text]Assistant Professor Dave Des Marais was profiled on MIT News for his research into plant physiology and how plants naturally respond to environmental stresses. Des Marais officially joined the department on October 1, and works in […]

Splash! Raindrops Spread Pathogens Among Plants

February 17, 2015 | 2015 News in Brief | ceemit

Historical weather records have previously indicated that rainfall is correlated with appearance and spread of foliar diseases among plants, yet the mechanism governing such correlation remains unknown. A paper published in the Journal of the Royal […]