Projects
The Global Change Program's ongoing funded research projects are listed below. Select a particular project title to see more information.
Funding Source: Corporate & Foundation Gifts
- Development of the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM)
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and Henry Jacoby - Application of the MIT IGSM to Policy Analysis
Project Leaders: Henry Jacoby and John Reilly - 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 Henry Jacoby - Development of a Model of the U.S. Economy
Project Leaders: Henry Jacoby and John Reilly
Funding Source: Anonymous Donations (via MIT Energy Initiative)
- Investigation of Transportation Alternatives
Project Leader: Henry Jacoby - Carbon Taxes and Biofuels
Project Leader: John Reilly
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- An Integrated Framework for Climate Change Analysis
Project Leaders: Henry Jacoby and Ronald Prinn - Quantifying Climate Feedbacks from Abrupt Changes in High-Latitude Trace-Gas Emissions
Project Leader: Adam Schlosser
Funding Source: U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
- Analytic Support for the Renewable Electricity Futures Study
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Ronald Prinn
Funding Source: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
- An Improved Framework for Analysis of Global Warming: Development and Application
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and Henry Jacoby - Development of a Model of the U.S. Economy
Project Leaders: Henry Jacoby and John Reilly
Funding Source: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 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 and Mort Webster - An Improved Model of Endogenous Technical Change Considering Uncertain R&D Returns and Uncertain Climate Response
Project Leaders: Mort Webster and Henry Jacboy - Global Effects of Human and Terrestrial Interactions
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Jerry Melillo - Synthesis of Arctic System Carbon Cycle Research
Project Leaders: Mick Follows and Ronald Prinn
Funding Source: U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Climate Effect of Black Carbon Aerosol on Tropical Convective Clouds and Precipitation
Project Leader: Chien Wang - The NASA Energy and Water-Cycle Study
Project Leader: Adam Schlosser - Waternet: The NASA Water Cycle Solutions Network
Project Leader: Adam Schlosser - 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 and Qianlai Zhuang
Funding Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Integrated Assessment of Multiple Greenhouse Gases, Climate Impacts, and Pollution
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Chien Wang - Dynamic Modeling of Emissions from Land-Use Activities
Project Leader: John Reilly - Biofuel Trade-Offs: Fuel, Forests, and Food
Project Leader: John Reilly - Air Pollution, Health and Economic Impacts of Global Change Policy and Future Technologies: An Integrated Model Analysis
Project Leaders: Mort Webster and Noelle Selin
Funding Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Climate and Fuel Policy and Competing Demands for Land
Project Leader: John Reilly
Funding Source: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- Economic and Environmental Effects of the Introduction of a Cap-And-Trade Policy in Aviation
Project Leaders: John Reilly and Ian Waitz
Funding Source: MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)
- Analytic Support for the MIT Natural Gas Study
Project Leaders: Henry Jacoby and John Reilly - Investigation of Transportation Alternatives
Project Leader: Henry Jacoby - Carbon Taxes and Biofuels
Project Leader: John Reilly
Funding Source: BP
- Analysis of Evolving Energy and Fuels Markets
Project Leader: Henry Jacoby
Funding Source: Deutsche Bank (DB)
- Carbon Counter Project
Project Leaders: Ronald Prinn and John Reilly