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TREX 2019: The Mission to Ascend Mauna Kea

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Peter Duff ’20 On our sixth day on the island, we had a singular mission; ascend Mauna Kea, and do so in one piece. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano, stretching ear-popping 13800 feet into […]

TREX – Day 5: Mauna Kea!

January 22, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 REX Day 5: Mauna Kea! Today, we drove up Mauna Kea, the second-highest mountain on the island. At the top, there was none of the heat nor humidity we have come to […]

TREX Day 8: Leilani and the Super Blood Moon

January 20, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Leilani Estates was right by the Fissure 8, the most destructive fissure during this past summer’s lava flows. The surrounding area has been transformed into volcanic glass; it is dangerous, unstable, and […]

TREX – Day 4

January 17, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 Today was an exciting disappointment. We were originally supposed to head over to Leilani to see newly formed lava fields, but never got a call back on whether today was okay for […]

TREX Off the Clock: Coffee, Beaches, and Early Morning Runs

January 16, 2019 | TREX 2019 | ceemit

By Rayna Higuchi ’20 TREX is an incredible opportunity to learn about the environment, climate, and how human interactions affect each, but we would be remiss if we came to Hawaii for two weeks and never […]

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 […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Australia Week 3

July 11, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

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MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Magnetic Island

July 9, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By: Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The locals say magnetic island got its name because Captain Cook’s compass went on the fritz as he approached the island, making him wonder if the island had a magnetic effect that […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Vlog 3

July 2, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

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MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Rebirth of the Giants

July 2, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By: Sierra Rosenzweig ’20 The Great Barrier Reef has been ravished by outbreaks of the same spiny predator since the1960s. The Crown of Thorns starfish explode in numbers approximately every 17 years and consume vast areas […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative: Climbing Castle Hill

June 29, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

[fusion_text]By Zoe Lallas ’20 Despite being hard at work all week long, the students of the MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative have still found time to go on adventures and explore our surroundings. This past Saturday […]

MIT Great Barrier Reef Initiative – Vlog 2

June 29, 2018 | Fieldwork | ceemit

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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 […]

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 […]