Researcher Highlights
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MIT researcher Sergey Paltsev studies how to supply the world's growing need for energy—without harming the climate.
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MIT graduate student David Ramberg studies the link between new technology and fuel prices.
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MIT graduate student Claudia Octaviano studies how energy storage technologies could transform the economics of renewable energy.
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There is one little-discussed side-effect of reducing emissions that produces immediate local benefits: cleaner air.
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To understand big problems—like the challenges facing China’s electricity grid—you have to ask big questions.
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Entekhabi has spent his career learning about the Earth through collecting data, and the information collected by his new NASA Earth monitor will fill a major gap in our understanding.
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“The challenge is, how can we create enough energy to support so many people in a sustainable way?” For Zhang, part of the solution is renewable energy.
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“Looking back, my interest in China developed out of spending a lot of time around people who were really passionate about the possibilities for their country,” Karplus says. “Working with colleagues in China over all of these years, I feel like the country has become a part of my own story.”
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Atmospheric Chemist Colette Heald combines observations and models to uncover lessons fro the gases and particles in our atmosphere.
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Do our opinions matter? Political scientist Christopher Warshaw is working to find out, as he uncovers the impact of public opinion on the policy process and strategies to create environmental change.