Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
According to a Johns Hopkins earth scientist, the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has caused changes in the way that waters in those southern oceans mix – a situation that has the potential to alter the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and eventually could have an impact on global climate change. In a paper published in today’s issue of the journal Science, Darryn W. Waugh and his team show that subtropical intermediate waters in the southern oceans have become “younger” as the upwelling, circumpolar waters have gotten “older” – changes that are consistent with the fact that surface winds have strengthened as the ozone layer has thinned.
January 31, 2013 Tags: CFC-12, chlorofluorocarbon, Darryn Waugh, global climate change, global warming, Montreal Protocol, Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, ocean circulation, ozone layer, Science
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Before the program ended on September 30, Johns Hopkins received $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act or ARRA.
December 6, 2010 Tags: ALS, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, APL, Applied Physics Lab, ARRA, cocktail party effect, federal stimulus act, global climate change, Jeffrey Rothstein, Lloyd Minor, Mounya Elhilali, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, ocean circulation, ocean currents, Robert Moffitt, Ronald Daniels, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Haine, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Uncategorized
Using a $736,000 grant administered through the federal stimulus act, Johns Hopkins earth scientist Thomas Haine is working with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop what promises to be the biggest, most cutting-edge and detailed computer model of ocean currents ever made. The supercomputer model, which will be run by a National Science Foundation–built supercomputer capable of doing a million billion calculations per second, will simulate currents in the Arctic, Antarctic and Atlantic oceans in hopes of shedding light on how small-scale turbulent eddies affect large currents, such as the powerful Gulf Stream.
May 13, 2010 Tags: Antarctic Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, climate, climate change, Earth and Planetary Sciences, global climate change, Gulf Stream, Krieger School, ocean currents, supercomputers, Thomas Haine
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Natural Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University will cut its emissions of climate-changing carbon dioxide gas by more than half from projected levels by 2025, the university announced today.
March 11, 2010 Tags: global climate change, James T. McGill, Ronald J. Daniels, sustainability
| Category: Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
A summary of the greenhouse gas emission reduction goals of the Johns Hopkins climate change and sustainability plan announced on March 11, 2010.
March 11, 2010 Tags: global climate change, sustainability
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Comments by elected officials, students and members of the President’s Task Force of Climate Change on the Johns Hopkins climate change and sustainability plan announced on March 11, 2010.
March 11, 2010 Tags: global climate change, sustainability
| Category: Environment, Institutional News, University-Related
In an effort to provide tomorrow’s leaders with the tools needed to address both the science and policy issues confronting a world facing global climate change, Johns Hopkins’ Krieger School of Arts and Sciences has created an interdisciplinary major and minor in global environmental change and sustainability.
December 15, 2009 Tags: Engineering, Global Change Science Initiative, global climate change, Lee Meyerhoff Hendler, natural science, Parker, Public Health, social science, sustainability, Waugh
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Environment, Government and Politics, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Public Health
