Prince Ochonma (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)

…producing H2 from renewable biomass sources with in-situ CO2 capture. The building blocks for this technology include water, aqueous or solid biomass, and alkaline resources such as industrial residues or…

Adaptive Agricultural Landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco

…systems design, sensible water allocation strategies, and efforts to match crop genetic traits to stress-prone environments. By collaborating with public and civil society organizations, researchers hope to increase food security…

Luisa Cortesi (Anthropology)

…in the environmental knowledge of increasingly disastrous waters, in particular floods and toxic drinking water, and environmental justice. She works primarily in North Bihar, India, a place that is recurrently…

Soil Health Assessment, Management, and Policy to Support Sustainable Land Management in China (TNC)

…1/14th of the world’s arable land area, while resources diminish and the climate changes. In order to ensure future food, water, and energy security, the health of China’s soils must…

Deploying Novel Sensor Technology and Proven Data Analytics to Assess Fugitive Emissions from the Hydrogen Supply Chain (EDF Impact Grant)

…highly flammable. H2 in the atmosphere can warm the climate indirectly by extending the lifetime of methane, triggering reactions that form tropospheric ozone, and breaking down into water vapor in…

Allasandra Valdez (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)

…the impact of forage type on methane flux, potentially linked to plant transport, and how soil methane oxidation rates vary with management decisions like water retention. Findings will inform scalable…

Cornell University at UN Biodiversity COP16

2020: Hotspots of Nitrogen Loss in River Basins (EDF)

Researchers will examine nitrogen runoff in the watersheds of both the Upper Mississippi River Basin and the Chesapeake Bay. Nitrogen is a vital nutrient for agricultural production, but nitrogen runoff…

Facing Floods, Non-white Homeowners Prepare, Protect Property

In flood-prone areas of New York state, non-white homeowners are more likely than white homeowners to take active, sometimes-costly measures – such as finding a way to protect a furnace,…

Heavy Metals in Baby Food: Cumulative Neurodevelopment Effects

…and pesticides contribute to elevated levels in soil and water and the food supply. Recently, the presence of Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, and Arsenic contamination of commercial infant/toddler food has come…