NEROC 2020: 5th Annual, 1st Virtual
The Fifth Annual NEROC Symposium in Radio Science was hosted by MIT Haystack Observatory in November 2020, held for the first time online. In 2020, the NEROC Symposium format consisted of two keynote...
View ArticleMelanie Straight highlighted in Spotlight article
Haystack Senior Fiscal Officer Melanie Straight was highlighted in the Spotlight section of the MIT Research Administration newsletter in December 2020. The Spotlight section profiles an MIT employee...
View ArticleEHT awarded Royal Astronomical Society 2021 Group Achievement Award
MIT Haystack Observatory and the entire Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration (https://eventhorizontelescope.org/organization) has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) 2021 Group...
View ArticleFormer REU student co-authors research in Journal of Geophysical Research
Cole Tamburri, now a graduate student in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado–Boulder, has co-authored with Haystack’s Larisa Goncharenko and others a...
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Akiyama: now under “A” in Encyclopedia Britannica
Haystack’s Kazunori Akiyama is first on the new Encyclopedia Britannica “20 Under 40: Young Shapers of the Future (Science and Technology)” list for his work on imaging black holes with the Event...
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Haystack climate change research: how fast are icebergs melting?
Pedro Elosegui has co-authored an article for Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) on “Measurements of iceberg melt rates using high‐resolution GPS and iceberg surface scans” (Schild et al. 2021,...
View ArticlePaul B. Sebring, first Haystack Observatory director, dies at 102
Former and first MIT Haystack Observatory Director Paul Brown Sebring died January 3, 2021, at age 102, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Born in 1918 in Washington, Indiana, Sebring graduated from Purdue...
View ArticleDhiman Mondal hired as Research Scientist
MIT Haystack Observatory has hired Dhiman Mondal as research scientist in the geodesy group. Mondal has been working at Haystack as a post-doctoral associate since 2018, focused on improving the...
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Monitoring Arctic sea ice
Ken Wilson with SIDEx buoy at Haystack Haystack scientists and engineers have designed an autonomous geodetic-quality GNSS buoy, and have built and shipped twelve such buoys to remote northern Alaska...
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Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole
MIT Haystack Observatory is one of the 13 stakeholder institutions that constitute the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole. The EHT...
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Telescopes united in unprecedented observations of famous black hole
This article is taken from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration press release, available with more information at...
View ArticleMOXIE produces oxygen from Mars atmosphere
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been marking milestones on Mars since landing on the Red Planet in February. Its latest historic accomplishment is the first creation of oxygen from carbon dioxide in the...
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Westford Scout installs historic marker sign
As part of his Eagle Scout service project, local Scout Carter Purple designed and installed a series of monument markers at historical sites around Westford, including one at the entrance gate to MIT...
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EHT pinpoints dark heart of the nearest radio galaxy
An international team anchored by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is known for capturing the first image of a black hole in the galaxy Messier 87, has now imaged the heart of...
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How a sudden stratospheric warming affected the Northern Hemisphere
Weather is a tricky science — even more so at very high altitudes, with a mix of plasma and neutral particles. In sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) — large meteorological disturbances related to...
View ArticleSpectrumX collective launches the first NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative...
Communication technologies are the lifeblood of modern society, and these fundamentally depend on rapid, wireless exchange of information. The increasing demands of wireless networks, GPS navigation...
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Haystack celebrates Herb Weiss and six decades of making history
An exhibit commemorating some of the significant milestones in Haystack’s history was unveiled on September 28, 2021. The display chronicles many of the major contributions of Haystack scientists and...
View ArticleSwoboda awarded ONR Young Investigator Program grant
Dr. John Swoboda of MIT Haystack Observatory’s Millstone Hill Geospace Facility (MHGF) has been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)’s Young Investigator Program (YIP). His project...
View Article2022 Tonga volcanic eruption induced global propagation of ionospheric...
The recent eruption of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai volcano, at 04:14:45 UT on Jan. 15, was recently confirmed by Haystack researchers to have launched far-reaching, massive global disturbances...
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Imaging geomagnetic storms in the Earth’s ionosphere—in 3D
Space weather variations in the region near our planet are of increasingly important interest for our space faring and communications reliant society. However, accurately imaging variations in the...
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