RESEARCH AREAS
Climate
| FACULTY | |
| James G. Anderson | Catalytic processes in the atmosphere controlling global change of ozone; development of laser systems from stratospheric and troposheric studies; development of high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft for studies of global climate change. |
| Michael J. Aziz | Electrochemical processes for energy technology and mitigating global climate change; synthesis and properties of novel optoelectronic semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures using energetic beams; nanoporous materials. |
| Ofer Bar Yosef | The origin of modern humans and early farming societies; Near East. |
| William C. Clark | Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology. |
| Paul R. Epstein | Health impacts of climate change; health applications of climate forecasting and remote sensing. |
| Brian F. Farrell | The influence of spatial and temporal variation in the availability of habitats or other resources on speciation and the rate of evolution of inter-specific interactions. |
| Jody Freeman | Administrative law; environmental law; governance theory; natural resource law; privatization; regulation. |
| Paul F. Hoffman | Global tectonics, the evolution of the Earth's crust in the Precambrian, sedimentology and stratigraphy. |
| John Holdren | Energy and resource options in industrial and developing countries, global environmental problems, impacts of population growth, and international security and arms control. |
| Peter Huybers | Paleoclimate, including glacial cycles, ocean circulation, and Earth's surface temperature explored through observational analysis and mathematical models. |
| Daniel J. Jacob | Air pollution, atmospheric transport, regional and global atmospheric chemistry, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, climate change. |
| Sheila Jasanoff | Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; and science and technology policy. |
| Dale W. Jorgenson | Information technology and economic growth, energy and environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics. |
| Zhiming Kuang | Tropical convection and large scale atmosphere-ocean dynamics. |
| Charles Langmuir | The solid earth geochemical cycle, petrology, volcanology, ocean ridges, convergent margins, ocean islands, composition and evolution of the earth's mantle. |
| Henry Lee | Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy. |
| Jennifer Logan | Effects of boreal fires on atmospheric composition and air quality in a future climate; analysis of MISR data for injection heights of fire plumes; trends in ozone. |
| Scot T. Martin | Atmospheric particles, cloud formation, and climate change; energy, pollution, and climate; mineral origins of life; energy technology; biosphere-atmosphere feedback. |
| James J. McCarthy | Marine nitrogen cycling; coastal and offshore plankton productivity; biological-physical interactions in the sea; effects of climate change on marine systems. |
| Michael B. McElroy | Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere, evolution of planetary atmospheres. |
| Brendan Meade | Dynamics of plate boundary zones; theoretical geomorphology. |
| J. William Munger | Long-term measurements of net carbon exchange, canopy-atmosphere exchange of selected trace gases, and regional atmospheric chemistry. |
| Richard O'Connell | Geodynamics: mantle flow, convection and plate tectonics; models of tectonic processes; elasticity and rheology of rocks and minerals. |
| Ann Pearson | Carbon isotope biogeochemistry; global organic carbon cycle; microbial metabolism in anoxic marine systems; sources of carbon to marine sediments. |
| Christoph Reinhart | Daylighting; passive climatization concepts; building energy use. |
| Daniel P. Schrag | Geochemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, stable isotope geochemistry; carbon sequestration; climate change; energy technology. |
| Joel Schwartz | Health effects of lead and air pollutants and ozone exposure; cost-benefit analysis in environmental decision making. |
| Robert N. Stavins | Environmental economics and public policy; market based strategies for future climate policy. |
| Lawrence H. Summers | Economics of climate change; macroeconomics; international policy; finance; public economics; labor. |
| Noreen Tuross | Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions; human impacts on the land, paleodiet, migration, and seasonality. |
| Eli Tziperman | El Niño's dynamics; large-scale oceanic circulation; past climate dynamics. |
| Steven Wofsy | Sources, sinks, transformations, and transport of atmospheric gases; climate change. |
| Richard Zeckhauser | Performance of institutions confronted with inadequate commitment capabilities, incomplete information flow and human participants who fail to behave in accordance with models of rationality. |
Climate-Related Programs at Harvard
Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics (FAS)
Atmospheric Sciences (FAS)
Atmospheric Sciences Seminar (FAS)
China Project
Climate Seminar Series (FAS)
Earth and Planetary Sciences (FAS)
Environment and Natural Resources Program (HKS)
Environmental Microbiology and Geochemistry (SEAS)
Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (FAS)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Harvard Forest
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements (HKS)
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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