Projects
The MIT Joint Program's sponsored research projects that are currently ongoing or that have been conducted within the past year are listed below. Select a particular project title to see more information. Prior Projects.
Funding Source: Corporate & Foundation Gifts
- Development of the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM)
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and John Reilly - Application of the MIT IGSM to Policy Analysis
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Sergey Paltsev - Assessment of Impacts of Global Environmental Change using the MIT IGSM
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Ronald Prinn - Analysis of Climate Change Uncertainties and Risks using the MIT IGSM
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and John Reilly - Development of a Model of the U.S. Economy
Project Leaders: John Reilly
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- An Integrated Framework for Climate Change Analysis
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and John Reilly - Quantifying Climate Feedbacks from Abrupt Changes in High-Latitude Trace-Gas Emissions
Project Leaders: Adam Schlosser, Qianlai Zhuang, Jerry Melillo, Katey Walter - Methods for Decision under Technological Change Uncertainty and Risk Assessment for Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
Project Leader: Mort Webster - Assessing the Impact of Future Climates on the Thermal Electric and Hydroelectric Generating Capacity of the Southeast U.S
Project Leaders: Adam Schlosser and Ken Strzepek
Funding Source: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- An Improved Framework for Analysis of Global Warming: Development and Application
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and John Reilly - Development of a Model of the U.S. Economy
Project Leaders: John Reilly
Funding Source: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
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What are Sustainable Climate-Risk Management Strategies?
Project Leaders: Klaus Keller, Mort Webster
- A Paradigm Shift in Ecosystem and Environmental Modeling: An Integrated Stochastic, Deterministic, and Machine Learning Approach
Project Leaders: John Reilly, Qianlai Zhuang, Jerry Melillo - Tropospheric Anthropogenic Aerosols and Climate
Project Leader: Chien Wang - The Interface of Infrastructures, Markets, and Natural Cycles—Innovative modeling and control mechanisms for managing electricity, water and air quality in Texas
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn, Mort Webster, David Allen - An Improved Model of Endogenous Technical Change Considering Uncertain R&D Returns and Uncertain Climate Response
Project Leader: Mort Webster - Decision making under coupled multi-timescale uncertainty: Advanced electric power systems planning
Project Leaders: Mort Webster and Youssef Marzouk - The Future of Ecosystems and Extremes: Using Diverse Environmental Data Sets in Support of Regional to Global Earth-System Models and Predictions
Project Leaders: Adam Schlosser, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Benjamin Felzer, Jerry Melillo - Evaluating the Competing Impacts of Global Emissions Reductions and Climate Change on the Distribuibution and Retention of selected POPs in Arctic Ocean
Project Leaders: Noelle Selin, Rainer Lohmann and Elsie Sunderland -
Mercury in the Atmosphere Over the Eastern United States
Project Leaders: Noelle Selin, Christopher Cantrell, Daniel Jaffe
Funding Source: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Shifts in Extreme Precipitation Events Based on Resolved Atmospheric Changes
Project Leaders: Dara Entekhabi and Adam Schlosser - Land use-Ecosystem-Climate Interactions in Monsoon Asia
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Hanqin Tian - Changes of Land-Cover and Land-Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales
Project Leaders: John Reilly, Qianlai Zhuang, Jerry Melillo - A Modeling Analysis of the Impact of Aerosols from Combustion Sources on Actinic Fluxes and Photolysis Rates Constrained by Aircraft and Satellite Data
Project Leader: Chien Wang
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Air Pollution, Health and Economic Impacts of Global Change Policy and Future Technologies: An Integrated Model Analysis
Project Leaders: Noelle Selin and Mort Webster - Integrated Assessment of Greenhouse Gases and Climate Impacts
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Chien Wang -
Integrated Assessment of Transportation-Related Policies on Greenhouse Gases, Land Use Change, and Other Economy-Wide Impacts
Project Leader: Sergey Paltsev - Analysis of Dynamic, Flexible NOx and SO2 Abatement for Power Plants in the Eastern US and Texas
Project Leaders: Mort Webster and Elena McDonald-Buller
Funding Source: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Environmental Cost-benefit Analysis of Alternative Jet Fuels ("PARTNER Project 28")
Project Leaders: Sergey Paltsev and Steven Barrett -
Economic and Environmental Effects of the Introduction of a Cap-And-Trade Policy in Aviation
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Ian Waitz - Aviation System Global Climate Performance Analysis
Project Leaders: Steven Barrett and Ron Prinn
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Assessing Metrics and Simplified Aviation Climate Impact Models
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and Ian Waitz
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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Climate Change and Water Resource Impacts
Project Leader: John M. Reilly
Funding Source: MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)
- Carbon Taxes and Biofuels
Project Leader: John Reilly
Funding Source: BP
- Analysis of Evolving Energy and Fuels Markets
Project Leader: Henry Jacoby -
The Commercial Potential of Biofuels in a Resource Constrained World
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Niven Winchester
Funding Source: Energy Foundation (EF)
- An Integrated Assessment of Emissions, Air Quality, Economic, and Health Impacts of Transport Policies in China
Project Leaders: Eri Saikawa, Valerie Karplus
Funding Source: Deutsche Bank (DB)
- Carbon Counter Project
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and John Reilly
Funding Source: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)
- Probabilistic Climate Change Projections for Singapore and Surrounding Regions
Project Leader: Chien Wang
Consortium: Eni, ICF International, Shell, AFD
- China Energy and Climate Project (CECP)
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Valerie Karplus