On July 1, 2024, Noelle Selin was named as director of the newly launched Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy at MIT. For more information on the new Center, see the article at the link.
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-school-science-launches-center-sustainability-science-strategy-0805
Our study from Environmental Research Letters on the air pollution impacts of ammonia-powered shipping was featured in MIT News.
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Our paper quantifying the impact of deforestation on global mercury pollution, published in Environmental Science & Technology, was featured in MIT News.
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If reactors are retired, polluting energy sources that fill the gap could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths. Research led by EAPS PhD student Lyssa Freese. Read more in MIT News:
https://news.mit.edu/2023/study-shutting-down-nuclear-power-could-increase-air-pollution-0410
Our new modeling tool enables rapid design of effective and equitable policy combinations. Recently published article in ACS Environmental Au led by MIT Principal Research Scientist and group collaborator Sebastian Eastham. Read more in MIT News here https://news.mit.edu/2023/improving-health-outcomes-targeting-climate-air-pollution-simultaneously-0223
Our study on the health benefits of wind energy instead of fossil fuels, led by recent IDSS PhD Minghao Qiu, was highlighted in MIT News and other sources:
The winners of the first-ever Climate Grand Challenges (CGC) will become multiyear flagship research projects, helping define a new research agenda focused on addressing complex unsolved climate problems and bringing high-impact solutions to the world on an accelerated basis.
Prof. Selin co-leads the project Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge with Prof. Raffaele Ferrari (EAPS).
Read more at MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2022/flagship-projects-climate-grand-challenges-0411
More about the Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge project: https://climategrandchallenges.mit.edu/flagship-projects/bringing-computation-to-the-climate-challenge/
