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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
Protecting drinking water from widespread organic contaminants using engineered soil bacteria
Christopher Voigt, Department of Biological Engineering
Kate Brown, Program in Science, Technology, 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
Predictive activity coefficient and diffusion models for transport in multicomponent brines
John H. Lienhard V
Denitrifying capsules to clean water sources
Andrew Babbin, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
The role of livestock in climate change: Holistic greenhouse gas assessments and implications for human diets
César Terrer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Smart buckets: Measuring water access in rural India
Gokul Sampath, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Jonathan Bessette, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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
Persistent monitoring of nitrogen waste products in the environment
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Development of transduction methods for the detection of arsenic in water
Alexander Radosevich, Department of Chemistry
Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
Nanoscale materials for removal of “forever chemicals”
Carlos Portela, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
Chemo-electrophilic interfaces for bacterial disinfection in wastewater
Kripa Varanasi, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Angela Belcher, Department of Biological Engineering
Using secondary metabolites to manage legacy phosphorus
Darcy McRose, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Multiplexed motion-amplified microbead sensors for rapid measurement and monitoring of trace contaminants in water
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
PFAS test kits based on 2D conductive metal-organic frameworks
Aristide Gumyusenge, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Optimizing cereal crop plant architecture during an era of high atmospheric CO2
David L. Des Marais, 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
Novel spectrofluorometer for online early detection of harmful algal blooms
Andrew J. Whittle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fabio Duarte, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Senseable City Lab and MIT Center for Real Estate
Solid-state scrap processing: A pathway to drastically reduce water consumption in steelmaking
Cem Tasan, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Catalyzing sustainable food and climate systems transitions in the Lake Victoria Basin
Greg Sixt, Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab
Michael Hauser, Research Affiliate, Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab
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
In silico discovery of metal-organic frameworks for selective ion separation
Heather J. Kulik, Department of Chemical Engineering
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
Liquid-infused membranes to separate emulsified oils from water
Gregory C. Rutledge, Department of Chemical Engineering
Enzymatic biomaterials for PFAS degradation
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
Solar photomolecular desalination
Gang Chen, 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
Engineered microbial cocultures to detect and degrade organophosphates
Ariel Furst, Department of Chemical Engineering
A new approach to enhance genetic diversity to improve crop breeding
Mary Gehring, Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute
On-site analysis of foodborne pathogens using density-shift immunomagnetic separation and culture
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Pratik Shah, MIT Media Lab
Precise fish vaccine injection using silk-based biomaterials
Benedetto Marelli, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Improving smallholder farmers’ welfare with AI-driven technologies
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
A sliding vane energy recovery device for photovoltaic-powered brackish water reverse osmosis desalination
Amos Winter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Hybrid evaporative and radiative cooling as a passive low-cost high-performance solution for food shelf-life extension
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Gang Chen, 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
Off-grid portable ion concentration polarization desalination unit
Jongyoon Han, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biological Engineering
Accurate optical sensing for efficient fertilizer use and increased yield in small farms
Rajeev Ram, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Rajesh Kumar, Biomedical Engineering- IIT Ropar
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
Using siderophore-conjugated microcins to combat foodborne pathogens
Elizabeth M. Nolan, Department of Chemistry
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
Enhancing water affordability for vulnerable urban households in the United States
Gabriella Carolini, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Lawrence Susskind, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Solving the phosphite bottleneck for next generation agriculture and clean water
Christopher C. Cummins, Department of Chemistry
Data-driven development of probiotics for shrimp aquaculture in Ecuador
Otto X. Cordero, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Reduction of risk from water- and food-borne N-nitrosamines by induction of the Nrf2 chemo-protective pathway in mammals
John Essigmann, Center for Environmental Health Science, Department of Biological Engineering
Developing flexible estimates of agricultural supply functions for answering demand-side agricultural questions
Dave Donaldson, Department of Economics
Securing the food supply with sustainable packaging
Bradley Olsen, Department of Chemical Engineering, Alexander and I. Michael Kasser (1960) Professor, Graduate Admissions Co-Chair
Low cost water testing and disinfection
Susan Murcott, MIT D-Lab
Sustainable agricultural planning for small farm holders in the Bist Doab region of Punjab
Saurabh Amin, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ickkshaanshu Sonkar, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
Reet K. Tiwari, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar
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
2019
Evaporative cooling technologies for fruit and vegetable preservation in Kenya
Daniel Frey, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Leon Glicksman, Department of Architecture
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Understanding effects of intermittent flow on drinking water quality
Andrew J. Whittle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Designing purely weather-contingent crop insurance with personalized coverage to improve farmers’ investments in their crops for higher yields
Robert M. Townsend, Department of Economics
Electrocatalytic ammonia synthesis for distributed agriculture
Yogesh Surendranath, Department of Chemistry
Microparticle systems for the removal of organic micropollutants
Patrick Doyle, Department of Chemical Engineering
Learning food and water contaminants using wireless signals
Fadel Adib, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Development of communication materials for the dissemination and commercialization of an open-sourced xylem water filter
Krithika Ramchander, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Designing supply chain platforms for smallholders in Indonesia
Joann de Zegher, Sloan School of Management
Piloting evaporative cooling technologies to improve vegetable shelf-life and farmer income in Western India
Eric Verploegen, MIT D-Lab
Anish Paul Antony, MIT D-Lab
QuantiSoil: Commercialization of an on-site soil analysis system for smallholding farmers
John Hart, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management
Supporting the resilience of the citrus industry
Olivier de Weck, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2018
Anthropogenic soils of the Amazon: Origins, extent, and implications for sustainable tropical agriculture
Dorothy Hosler, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Heather Lechtman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Taylor Perron, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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
Purifying water from boron contamination with highly selective metal-organic framework (MOF) membranes
Zachary Smith, Department of Chemical Engineering
Supermolecular nanostructure gels for chelation of arsenic from drinking water
Julia Ortony, Department of Materials Science and Engineering