Daniel H. Rothman

Professor of Geophysics

Co-Director of the Lorenz Center

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT news releases

• Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds (2022)
• Microbes and minerals may have set off Earth's oxygenation (2022)
• Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds (2021)
• Study: A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered "Snowball Earths" (2020)
• Breaching a "carbon threshold" could lead to mass extinction (2019)
• An escape route for carbon (2019)
• Study finds climate determines shapes of river basins (2018)
• Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction (2017)
• Daniel Rothman awarded math prize for work on Earth's carbon cycle (2015)
• Cracking the problem of river growth (2015)
• Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean (2015)
• Sequestration on shaky ground (2015)
• Ancient whodunit may be solved: The microbes did it! (2014)
• The mathematics of leaf decay (2012)
• A look back in time (2010)

Stories about our work

• Hidden heroines of chaos (Quanta, 2019)
• A universal law for blood of the Earth (Quanta, 2018)
• Hidden order emerges in stream networks (Physics Today, 2013)

Other media

• Thresholds of Catastrophe in the Earth System (2023 Geology Bites Podcast)
• Ice on Fire (2019 HBO Documentary narrated and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio)