About Terrascope and Mission 2013
Mission 2013: Solving Complex Problems (12.000) is a program for first year students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that challenges students to develop a cohesive, interdisciplinary solution to a complex problem. The challenge presented to the Class of 2013 was carbon capture and sequestration and the issues associated with sequestering enough carbon to stop the steady increase in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The class is primarily student-driven with advice and oversight provided by Undergraduate Teaching Fellows (former Missioners) and alumni mentors from a variety of disciplines. However, it is we, the students, who determine the timeline of our semester and the particulars of our solution.
Over the course of three months, the goal and the method of obtaining the solution were developed and refined. As the semester unfolded, the class structure evolved from isolated groups dealing with particular aspects of the problem into a unified class containing knowledgeable individuals with regards to various solutions proposed.
The final solution which appears on this website results from the countless hours of work done by the class and would not have been possible without the following people:
Professor:
Sam Bowring
TA's:
Seth Burgess
Erin Shea
UTF's:
Adam Bockelie
Jennifer de Bruijnis
Carmen Chan
Yangbo Du
Samantha Fox
Tracey Hayse
Sameer Hirji
Elise Hens
Elizabeth Jones
Margaret Lloyd
Ruaridh Macdonald
Emily Moberg
Michelle Slosberg
Mentors:
Burl Amsbury
Lowell Anderson
Sheldon W. Buck
Stephen Estes-Smargiassi
Yolanda Fan
Samuel Friedmann
Bob Gurnitz
Hal Gustin
Todd Harland-White
Paul D. Jacobson
Bhupandra Khetani
Alfredo Kniazzeh
Sujeesh Krishnan
Keith MacKay
Jorge Phillips
Peter Ralston
Johnny Yang
The Class:
Melanie Adams
Ivan Amador
Anirudh Arun
Kaleb Ayalew
Zachary Barryte
Shaena Berlin
Ranjeetha Bharath
Rachel Bowman
Devin Cela
Jhanel Chew
Nikita Consul
Chen Dan Dong
Clarissa Forneris
Michelle Fung
William Gaviria
Olivia Gierlich
Isaac Gutekunst
Charlotte Herhold
Jing Jian
Alexander C Jordan
Luis Juarez
Alexander Keesling
Julia Kimmerly
Lauren Kuntz
Garrett Lau
Harriet Li
Josepher Li
Saul Lopez
Laura Matloff
Cameron Mcalpine
Samuel Millington
David Miranda-Nieves
Kenya Mejia
Alberta Nim
Ying Ngan
Tam Nguyen
Ethan Peterson
Marcela Rodriguez
Gerzain Rosas
Ron Rosenberg
Joseph Salinas
Allison Schneider
Bahar Shah
Missy Showers
Avanti Shrikumar
Shavinesh Sukesh
Wennie Wang
Yin-Jen Wang
Jaclyn Wilson
W. Victor Yarlott
Karine Tiemi Yuki
Yi Zhang
Hanna Zhu