The Center gratefully acknowledges Bertram Cohn for his generous support of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund. Please also acknowledge the support of the Thomas B. AB 1943 and Joan Herzfeld HUCE Undergraduate Summer Research Fund. 

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2024 Award Recipients

Independent Research Projects

• Hannah Adler ’25, “Wetland Biogeochemistry and Restoration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta” with Prof. Jackie Matthes (Harvard Forest)
• David Brown ’25, “Wildfire Prevention with Stratospheric Balloons” with Prof. Marianna Linz (FAS)
• Andrew Chu ’26, “Electrochemical Decarbonization of Critical Minerals Refining” with Prof.
• Philip Kim (FAS)
• Anna Collins ’26, “Indigenous Perspectives in Climate Science: Reconnecting to Traditional Ways of Land Care” with Prof. William Friedman (FAS)
• Charlotte Duesing ’25, “Agriculture and Air Pollution: The Costs and Solutions of Deforestation Fires on Planetary Health” with Prof. Kari Nadeau
• Eduardo Goyanna Filho ’25, “The Effects of Organized Crime in Local Climate Action by the Brazilian Amazon Municipal Governments” with Prof. Marcia Castro (HSPH)
• Kasie Leung ’27, “Synthesis and Characterization of Oxidation-Resistant Molecules for Reversible Carbon Capture” with Prof. Richard Liu (FAS)
• Jayne Morley ’25, “Climate resilience in coral reefs, fisheries, and food-insecure Indigenous peoples in Madagascar” with Prof. Aaron Hartmann (FAS)
• Eamon O’Cearuil ’25, “Europe’s Greatest Security Threat – Water. Studying European Water Diversification Strategies” with Prof. Sheila Jasanoff (HKS)

Research Assistant Projects

• Liam Downing ’25, “MethaneSAT/MethaneAIR Image Analysis and Methane Emission Determination” with Prof. Steven C. Wofsy (SEAS, FAS)
• Addason Harris ’26, “Plant Responses to Soil and Atmospheric Drought” with Prof. Missy Holbrook (FAS)
• Miriam Hibbert ’26, “Optimizing Environmentally Responsible Health Care” with Prof. Ann-Christine Duhaime (HMS)
• Christopher Mesfin ’26, “Environmental Economics and Policy” with Prof. Robert Stavins (HKS)
• Pranav Moudgalya ’26, “Political Economy of Energy Transitions and Adaptation” with Prof. Dustin Tingley (FAS)
• Hannah Nguyen ‘27, “Liquid Windows toward 0-Energy, 0-Carbon Buildings” with Prof. Joanna Aizenberg
• Audrey Platt ’25, “History of the Health Effects of Climate Change” with Prof. David Jones (FAS, HMS)
• Kenith Taukolo ’27, “Climate Health and the Immune System: A Hot Topic” with Prof. Kari Nadeau (HSPH)
• Matthew Thompson ’26, “Strengthening Communities for Changing Energy Systems” with Prof. Diane Davis (GSD)

2023 Award Recipients

Independent Research Projects

• Hannah Adler ’25, “Science Communication and Conservation Field Research in the Karingani Game Reserve” with Professor Andrew Davies (FAS)
• Andrew Chu ’26, “Multilateral Methane Border Adjustment Fees for the US and EU” with Professor Catherine Wolfram (HKS)
• Eddie Dai ’25, “Humans, Nature, and Boundaries Through Ethnographic Film” with Professor Lucien Castaing-Taylor (FAS)
• Seychelle Doyley ’24, “Drying without Dying” with Professor George Church (HMS)
• Tim Fargiano ’24, “Using Satellite Data to Analyze Climate and Farming in the Sahel” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS)
• Harmony Fisher ’26, “Investigating MethaneAIR Datasets to Determine Rates and Spatial Distributions of Methane Emissions” with Professor Steven C. Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
• Izzy Goodchild-Michelman ’24, “Engineering a Photosynthetic Microbial Co-culture System for Carbon-Capture” with Professor George Church (HMS)
• Hailey Hurd ’25, “Characterizing Phase Transitions of Barocaloric Materials in Liquid Mediums” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
• Lillian Krcmar ’25, “An Analysis of Microbial Methane Production within Wetland Ecosystems” with Professor Ann Pearson and Professor Jerome Blewett (FAS)
• Agustín León-Sáenz ’25, “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Heavy Metal Concentrations in Northeast Drinking Water” with Professor Elsie Sunderland (SEAS) 
• Alex Oort Alonso ’26, “Using the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI) Model to Assess the Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Methane Emissions” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)

Research Assistantship Projects

• Cory Beizer ’24, “Stories of Ecological Devastation, Mental Illness, and Inequality” with Professor Karen Thornber (FAS)
• Christian Chiu ’25, “Data-Driven Placement of PM2.5 Air Quality Sensors in the United States: An Approach to Target Urban Environmental Injustice” with  Professor Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
• Ashley Dawn ’25, “Plant Responses to Soil and Atmospheric Drought” with Professor Missy Holbrook (FAS)
• Abby Fennelly ’24, “Strengthening Communities for Changing Energy Systems” with Professor Diane Davis (GSD)
• Saskia Fisher ’24, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution and Heat Waves” with Professor David Jones (FAS, HMS)
• Alyson Harvey ’25, “Cell Fusion for Repopulation & De-extinction” with Professor George Church (HMS)
• Uzma Issa ’25, “Optimizing Environmentally Responsible Health Care” with Professor Ann-Christine Duhaime (HMS)
• Ellie Klibaner-Schiff ’26, “Climate Health and the Immune System: A Hot Topic” with Professor Kari Nadeau (HSPH)
• Ee Jenn Lee ’25, “From Kyoto to Paris: The Evolution of International Climate Cooperation” with Professor Gunnar Trumbull (HBS)
• Alice Liu, ’26, “MethaneSAT/MethaneAIR Image Analysis and Methane Emission Determination” with Professor Steven C. Wofsy (SEAS)
• Tomoki Matsuno ’25, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Executive-Branch Policymaking” with Professor Daniel Carpenter (FAS)
• Elisabeth Ngo ’26, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution and Heat Waves” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
• Max Park ’26, “Shape-Morphing Liquid Droplets for Smart Windows & Zero-Energy Buildings” with Professor Joanna Aizenberg (SEAS)
• Genevieve Raushenbush ’24, “Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa” with Professor M. Cammett (FAS, HSPH)
• Tali Wong ’25, “Environmental Sensors Project (Healthy Cities Lab)” with Professor Gary Adamkiewicz (HSPH)

2022 Award Recipients

Independent Research Projects:

• Nick Daley ‘23, “Exploring the Effects of Siberian Alder Expansion on Plant Communities in the Alaskan Arctic” with Professor Ben Taylor (FAS)
• Devin Guevara ‘25, “Modeling the Changing Carbon Flux of the Alaskan North Slope” with Professor Steve Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
• Klara Kuemmerle ‘24, “Analyzing the Effect of CO2 Emissions Reductions on Levels of Atmospheric NO2” with Professor Frank Keutsch (SEAS)
• Gabe LeBlanc ‘25, “Increasing Gas Solubility Through Permanent Porosity in Liquids” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
• Bella Nesti ‘24, “Atmospheric Chemical Interactions With Flora” with Professor Frank Keutsch (SEAS)
• Sarah Packman ‘25, “Analyzing Recent Trends in Anthropogenic and Biogenic CO2 Fluxes in the Boston Area ” with Professor Steve Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
• Alexandra Fogel ‘23, “Relocation in the Wake of Natural Disaster: A Case Study of Rockaway, New York” with Professor Diane Davis (GSD)
• Marco Hansel ‘25, “Optimizing Silicalite-2 Zeolite Nanoparticles for Microporous Water Applications” with Professor Jarad Mason (FAS)
• Madi Howard ‘23, “In the Place That Had Been Elsewhere: v.S. Naipaul’s Representations of Rural England” with Professor Homi Bhabha (FAS)
• Hana Kiros ‘23, “40 Million City Trees: The Relation of Race and Income to Spatial Clustering, Biodiversity, and Climate Effects in Urban Forests” with Professor Andrew Berry (FAS)
• Maryna Macdonald ‘23, “A Plan to Decarbonize the Electrical Grid in Canada” with Professor David Keith (SEAS)
• Em Murdock ‘23, “Changes in Temperature, Soil Moisture and Radiative Variance, and Their Implications for Food Security” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
• Maddy Ranalli ‘23, “Lawn Chair Environmentalism: The Persistence of High-Emissions Land Use Policy in Suburban America” with Professor Dustin Tingley (FAS)
• Devinder Sarai ‘25, “Cequest: Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Production via Seawater Electrolysis” with Professor Daniel Schrag (FAS)
• Lisa Wang ‘23, “Decarbonization, Decentralization, and Digitalization of the Electric Grid” with Professor Jim Stock (HKS)

Research Assistantship Projects: 

• Davit Antonyan ‘23, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Executive-branch Policymaking” with Professor Daniel Carpenter (FAS)
• Kayla Baker ‘23, “Investigating the Mold Resiliency of Buildings in Future Climates” with Professor Holly Samuelson (GSD)
• Nicki Bugliosi ‘24, “Climate Dynamics” with Professor Eli Tziperman (FAS, SEAS)
• Sameer Das ‘24, “Climate Dynamics” with Professor Eli Tziperman (FAS, SEAS)
• Tim Fargiano ‘24, “Optimizing Placement of Air Quality Sensors across the United States and in Selected Cities” with Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
• Robert Greene ‘24, “Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Executive-branch Policymaking” with Professor Daniel Carpenter (FAS)
• Alayna Jenkins ‘23, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
• Sanjna Kedia ‘25, “Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
• Grace Kim ‘25, “Designs for Environmentally Responsible Health Care Facilities” with Professor Ann-Christine Duhaime (HMS)
• Cooper Knarr ‘25, “Research and Fact Checking for Book Chapter about Global Adaptation and Managed Retreat” with Professor Susan Crawford (HLS)
• Julia Mansfield ‘25, “Constraining Mercury Burial in Marine Sediment” with Professor Elsie Sunderland (SEAS)
• Daniel Pinckney ‘24, “Urban Futures” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (GSD)
• Da’Vion Tatum ‘25, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
• Claire Wigglesworth ‘24, “Urban Futures” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (GSD)
• Kaitlyn Zhou ‘25, “Wild African Elephant Social Behavior and Conservation” with Professor Caitlin O’Connell (HMS)

2021 Award Recipients

Independent Research Projects:

• Charlotte Dyvik Henke ‘22, “Arctic Sea Ice Variability and Comparisons with CMIP6 Model Simulations” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
• John Ferguson ‘22, “China’s Mega Transmission Lines: Lessons Learned from State Grid” with Professor William Alford (HLS)
• Noah Jones ‘22, “High-Altitude Long-Endurance Solar Powered Aircraft” with Professor Jim Anderson (SEAS)
• DJ Kranchalk ‘23, “Rural Nitrogen Oxide Emissions at Harvard Forest” with Professor Steve Wofsy (FAS, SEAS)
• Roy Mugobi ‘22, “A Comparative Study of the Artisanal Mining in Zimbabwe with Emphasis on the Role the Government Plays” with Professor John Shaw (FAS)
• Daniel Shen ‘24, “Improving Sentinel-2 Methane Retrievals over Heterogeneous Terrain” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
• Lincoln Sorscher ‘22, “Humor as an Effective Climate Change Communicator” with Professor Daniel Schrag (FAS)
• Natural Taylor ‘24, “Air Quality in the DC Metro System as Measured by Particle Count, Date and Time, and Station” with Professor Steve Wofsy and Professor Elsie Sunderland (SEAS)

Research Assistantship Projects: 

• Raisha Rahman ‘22, “Case Studies about the Future in Historical Perspective” with Professor Bruno Carvalho (GSD)
• Alessio Pignatelli ‘23, “Wild African Elephant Behavior and Conservation” with Professors Caitlin O’Connell (HMS)
• Lewis McAllister ‘21, “Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
• Nirupama Roka Magar ‘24, “History of the Health Effects of Air Pollution” with Professor David Jones (FAS)
• Kathleen Downey ‘24, “Designs for Environmentally Responsible Health Care Facilities” with Professor Tina Duhaime (HMS)
• Layla Seaver ‘24, “Legal, Social, and Political Correlates of Water Conservation in Mexico: Environmental Negotiation as a Tool for Mitigating Climate-change Induced Drought” with Professor Diane Davis (GSD)
• Paul Curran ‘23, “Energy Infrastructure Siting” with Professor Henry Lee (HKS)
• Charles Hua ‘22, “Renewable Hydrogen” with Professor Henry Lee (HKS)
• Idabelle Paterson ‘22, “Amazonian Deforestation and Archaeological Landscapes” with Professor Jason Ur (FAS)
• Alison Kim ‘22, “Taking the Fingerprints of Sea Level Change” with Professor Jerry Mitrovica (FAS, SEAS)
• Matej Cerman ‘23, “Low-carbon Standards and Green Technology Policy” with Professor Jim Stock (HKS)
• Samuel Lin ‘24, “Investigations of Air Quality” with Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
• Maggie Vallejo ‘23, “Investigations of Air Quality” with Loretta Mickley (SEAS)
• Madeline Kitch ‘21, “Case Studies on Climate Adaptation” with Professor Susan Crawford (HLS)
• Jason Jorge ‘23, “Resolving Soil Moisture of Small-Scale Farms using SMAP Remote Sensing” with Professor Peter Huybers (FAS, SEAS)
• Kevin Luo ‘24, “Improving Inverse Modeling Setups for Optimizing Methane Emissions” with Professor Daniel Jacob (SEAS)
• Gabriel Maxemin ‘24, “Using AIRS-MLS Data to Identify Convective Impacts on Stratospheric Water Vapor Levels” with Professor Jim Anderson (SEAS)
• Emma Zuckerman ‘24, “Solar Powered Aircraft for Climate Observing” with Professor Jim Anderson (SEAS)