Past Seed Grant Recipients
2023-24
Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado (SEAS), “Improving Ice Flow Models with a Cubic Kilometer of Instrumented South Pole Ice”
Martin Bechthold (GSD), “Carbon-Negative Building Insulation: Algae foam”
Joe Blatt (HGSE), “Making the Case: Communicating the benefits of climate change action”
Rema Hanna (HKS), “Take-up and Impact of Electricity Subsidies in the Developing World: Evidence from Indonesia”
Gage Hills (SEAS), “Quantifying the Embodied Footprint of Future Computing Systems”
Vijay Janapa Reddi (SEAS), “Enhancing Campus Sustainability: Unlocking efficiency with embedded machine learning for building intelligence”
Frank Keutsch (FAS-SEAS), “Blending Wildfire Observations with Numerical Modeling: A first step toward linking wildfire science with policy and public health”
Michèle Lamont (FAS), “Recognition and Climate Change: A comparative study”
Megan Murray (HMS), “Workshop: Building Climate Resilient Health Systems for Vulnerable Populations”
Holly Samuelson (GSD), “A New View on Window Design: How revised glass requirements could shift electricity demand to times of solar generation and ease the threat of winter peaks”
Karen Thornber (FAS), “Narrating Climate Change, Mental Health, and Inequality”
Stéphane Verguet (HSPH), “Setting Health Priorities in a Warming Climate: Identifying pathways to low-carbon, high-value healthcare in low- and middle-income countries”
Amy Whitesides (GSD), “Toward a National Agro-Forest”
Gu Yeon Wei (SEAS), “Carbon Facts: Counting and reporting embodied carbon, from theory to practice”
Joanna Aizenberg (SEAS), “Liquid Windows for Universal Indoor Sunlight Management”
Ann-Christine Duhaime (HMS), “Health Effects of Peaker Power Plant “ON” versus “OFF” states: Assessing benefits of peak demand alternatives in a large urban health network”
Richard Liu (FAS), “Light-switchable Materials for CO2 Capture and Release”
Kaighin McColl (FAS-SEAS), “Creating a Land Climate Community”
Yiqiao Song (SEAS), “Study of the Chemical Reaction of Water and Mafic Rocks to Produce Green Hydrogen, a Potential Clean Primary Energy Source”
Michael Aziz (SEAS), “Redox-Mediated Salt Splitting for Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide”
Adrien Bilal (FAS), “Workshop: The Macroeconomic Implications of Climate Change”
Andrew Davies (FAS), “Quantifying the Magnitude of Zoogeochemical Effects on Vegetation Carbon Stocks”
Peter Huybers (FAS-SEAS), “Workshop: Climate Change and Volatility in Food Supply”
Michael McElroy (FAS-SEAS), “Workshop: Climate-Resilient Development in Southeast Asia”
Gerald Neuman (HLS), “Workshop: African Perspectives on International Climate Law”
Benton Taylor (FAS), “The Changing Composition of Soil Carbon Inputs: Root exudate responses to climate change”
Hannah Teicher (GSD), “Adaptive Climate Migration: A case study of resettlement from the Solomon Islands to Canada”
2024-25
Sharon Block (HLS), “Labor in the Just Transition”
Kristen Stilt (HLS), “Workshop: Climate Change and Rights of Nature”
Carole Voulgaris (GSD), “Analyzing Zoning Codes to Identify Sustainable Locations for New Housing”
Charles Waldheim (GSD), “A Performance Evaluation Methodology for Nature-Based Adaptation Solutions”
David Weitz (SEAS), “From Waste to Taste: High-throughput screening for microbes to transform dairy waste into sweet-tasting proteins as novel sugar alternatives”
Melani Cammett (FAS), “The Political Economy of Energy Transitions in the Middle East”
Jim Anderson and Craig Mascarenhas (FAS-SEAS), “Quantifying the Feasibility of High-altitude Long-endurance (HALE) Platforms for Wildfire Applications During the Pre-fire, Active fire, and Post-fire Stages”
Jonathan Grinham (GSD), “Upcycling Wool Ecologies”
David Williams (HSPH), “Climate Stress: Mapping mental health vulnerabilities using new data-driven insights”
Peter Tufano and Ishita Sen (HBS), “Workshop: Climate Change and Insurance”
Emily Breza (FAS), “Impacts of Government-Provided Weather Insurance: Evidence from India’s PMFBY Program”
Joanna Aizenberg and Frank Keutsch (FAS-SEAS), “Rapid Radiative Cooling Atmospheric Water Harvesting through Soft-Engineered Materials”
Lotem Bassan-Nygate (HKS), “Breaking Commitments: Public reactions to withdrawals from international climate agreements”
Rachel Meltzer (GSD), “Wildfires and the Resilience of Commercial Activity”
Eugene Richardson (HMS), “Adaptation Frontiers in Vulnerable Socio-economic Systems in Brazil”
Carla Martin (FAS), “Workshop: The Futures of Africa’s Cocoa Industry”
Missy Holbrook (FAS), “Impacts of Rising Temperatures on Plant Productivity and Crop Yield”
Eve Blau (GSD), “Workshop: Supporting Kazakhstan’s Green Transition”