MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Email Format
Higher EducationMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) is a higher education department focused on exploring the natural world across scales, from minerals and aerosols to planetary bodies and climate history. Its work combines basic theory with practical applications aimed at understanding Earth’s systems and their evolution, including how life originates and interacts with environmental processes. The department emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing geologists, atmospheric scientists, and researchers from related fields together to address questions about climate, geology, and planetary science. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, EAPS operates within MIT and serves students and scholars pursuing research across earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences.