Low-Cost Active Climate Monitoring with Underactuated Agents

Atmosphere and ocean data improve our understanding of the climate, but nature-based sampling can be expensive. Tools like weather balloons and ocean buoys are low-cost solutions, but they are fundamentally…

Nonindigenous Invasive Species Are Killing Us

Smart Flow Sensors For Smart Stormwater Management

Climate change and growing urbanization are intensifying pressures on water resources. Urban watershed runoff leads to pollution and increased flood risk. The Nature Conservancy’s Brightstorm project addresses these challenges by…

Breaking Academic Silos and Brokering University Expertise: The Importance of Working With Partners Toward Large-scale Societal Impact

From Brain Gain to Brain Drain: The Cost of Undermining U.S. Higher Education

Scaling a Solution to Climate Change, Health, Agriculture, Water, and Energy Challenges in Africa

…vegetation and humans become infected when they enter infested water bodies to gather water for drinking, agriculture, or other purposes. Climate change is exacerbating the problem by changing rainfall patterns…

Bayu Ahmad (Ph.D. Candidate, Chemistry)

…capture technologies are energy- and cost-intensive. Unless energy transition has been realized, the use of mixed energy grid to drive direct air capture of CO2 is cost– and carbon-inefficient, and…

Sheila Olmstead

…of various pricing strategies on water conservation, economics and water quality considerations around shale gas development, measuring the economic value of improved water quality, and the effect of carbon capture…

Improving Energy Cost and Scalability of Algal Biofuels

…important alternative to plant-based biofuels, yet algal biofuel technology has a major limitation: current methods for removing water from the algae at harvest expend more energy than is harvested. Researchers…

Climate Optimist or Pessimist?