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2024
High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by vibrational actuation
Svetlana Boriskina, Mechanical Engineering Department
Empowering Indigenous communities: A framework for climate resilience and migration planning in La Guajira, Colombia
Sarah Williams, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Eran Ben - Joseph, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Gabriella Carolini, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Janelle Knox-Hayes, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
National crop type maps of India using deep learning and street view imagery
Sherrie Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Data, Systems, and Society
Food security in Africa under a changing climate – Navigating the energy and agricultural transition to net zero
Jennifer Morris, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, MIT Energy Initiative
Adam Schlosser, Center for Global Change Science, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Kenneth Strzepek, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science
Denitrifying capsules to clean water sources
Andrew Babbin, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
2023
Advancing technology development to improve microbiome processes for controlling harmful bacteria blooms in aquaculture algae feed production
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Robert Vincent, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT Sea Grant
Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus
Darcy McRose, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Automated counting of migrating salmon for conservation and fisheries management in the Pacific Northwest
Sara Beery, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of AI and Decision Making, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Solid-state scrap processing: A pathway to drastically reduce water consumption in steelmaking
Cem Tasan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Enhanced photosynthesis in crops (EPiC)
Matt Shoulders, Department of Chemistry
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Bin Zhang, Department of Chemistry
Bryan Bryson, Department of Biological Engineering
Robert Wilson, Department of Chemistry
2022
Sustainable hydrogel microparticles for the removal of micropollutants from water
Patrick Doyle, Department of Chemical Engineering
Safe off-grid brooder for Cameroonian poultry farmers
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Daniel Sweeney, MIT D-Lab
Converging trends in climate change, mining, and agriculture: Analysis of hydrosocial relations over desalination and glaciers in Chile
John E. Fernández, Department of Architecture
Scott D. Odell, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative
High-resolution plant water stress monitoring
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cloud-based data applications for streamlining natural resource management
Michael Triantafyllou, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2021
Impact of near-term climate change on water availability and food productivity in Africa
Elfatih Eltahir, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A new approach to enhance genetic diversity to improve crop breeding
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
Precise fish vaccine injection using silk-based biomaterials
Benedetto Marelli, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A sliding vane energy recovery device for photovoltaic-powered brackish water reverse osmosis desalination
Amos Winter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Converting dairy industry waste into food and feed ingredients
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Department of Chemical Engineering
Anthony J. Sinskey, Department of Biology
Mobile evaporative cooling rooms for vegetable preservation
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Systems analytics for small farms animal waste resource recovery
Olivier de Weck, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Afreen Siddiqi, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2020
Multi-criteria diet formulation for sustainable swine production
Jasmina Burek, MIT Materials Systems Laboratory
Smart porous hydrogels for atmospheric water harvesting
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Solving the phosphite bottleneck for next generation agriculture and clean water
Christopher C. Cummins, Department of Chemistry
Securing the food supply with sustainable packaging
Bradley Olsen, Department of Chemical Engineering, Alexander and I. Michael Kasser (1960) Professor, Graduate Admissions Co-Chair
A checklist-based advisory to minimize the cost and duration of worse-before-better in transitioning from chemical to organic smallholder farming
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management
Parwinder Singh, Humanities and Social Sciences - IIT Ropar
2018
Novel systems biology tools for improving crop tolerance to abiotic stressors
David L. Des Marais, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Caroline Uhler, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute for Data, Systems and Society
Decentralized torrefaction for producing high-yield, irrigation-saving fertilizer
Ahmed Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kung, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Assessing climate vulnerability of West African food security using remote sensing observations
Dara Entekhabi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Scaling a decentralized biomass torrefaction reactor for localized fertilizer production that improves farmers’ yields and reduces irrigation needs
Ahmed Ghoniem, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kevin Kung, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Alex Slocum, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Conservation credits for groundwater management
Christopher Knittel, Sloan School of Management
Ariel Zucker, Department of Economics
Nick Hagerty, Department of Economics
Gokul Sampath, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
2017
Electrochemical nitrogen fixation for distributed fertilizer production
Karthish Manthiram, Department of Chemical Engineering
The potential for private irrigation in Senegal
Stephen Graves, Sloan School of Management
Bishwapriya Sanyal, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Evaluation of fully synthetic nitrogen fixation pathways, designed for plant mitochondria and plastids
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
Distributed water harvesting from air in water-stressed and remote areas using metal-organic frameworks
Mircea Dincă, Department of Chemistry
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Multifunctional light-diffusing fibers for simultaneous light management and fluid transport in microalgae bioreactors
Mathias Kolle, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2016
Estimating the benefits to strengthening water markets
Christopher Knittel, Sloan School of Management
Waste to Food: Yarrowia lipolytica as protein and lipid production platform
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Department of Chemical Engineering
Gravity fingering during water infiltration in soil: Impact on the resilience of crops and vegetation in water-stressed ecosystems
Ruben Juanes, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Initial exploration of a root suction irrigation system
Amos Winter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2015
Strategies for urban stormwater wetlands Los Angeles & Houston
Alan Berger, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Heidi Nepf, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Engineered Nitrogen Fixation: Expression in plant organelles
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
Advancing water and food sustainability through improved understanding of uncertainties in climate change and climate variability
Susan Solomon, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Kenneth Strzepek, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Global Change Science
Quantifying mercury contamination of rice and its impact on food security in China
Noelle Selin, Institute for Data, Systems and Society, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Valerie Karplus, Sloan School of Management
Leverage Points: Opportunities for increasing food production in developing countries
Dennis McLaughlin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Erica James, Department of Urban Studies and Planning