Center for the Environment - Harvard University

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.
Ofer Bar Yosef	Prehistoric archeology; the rise of agriculture in the Neolithic age.
William C. Clark	Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology.
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.
Jerry R. Green	Economics of incentives, principles of equity for use in collective decision making and the use of data on choice to evaluate economic well-being.
James K. Hammitt	The development and application of quantitative methods--including benefit-cost, decision, and risk analysis--to health and environmental policy.
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 J. 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.
Marc Lipsitch	Transmission dynamics and within-host population biology of infectious disease.
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	Biological oceanography, phytoplankton ecology, nitrogen nutrition of phytoplankton.
Michael B. McElroy	Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere, evolution of planetary atmospheres.
Paul R. Moorcroft	How demographic and competitive processes within terrestrial plant communities affect large-scale ecosystem dynamics.
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.
Forest L. Reinhardt	Relationships between market and non-market strategy; the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources; the economics of externalities and public goods.
Daniel P. Schrag	Geochemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, stable isotope geochemistry; climate change.
Joel Schwartz	Epidemiology and the health consequences of exposure to lead and air pollutants; methodological questions regarding the modeling of continuous covariates in epidemiologic studies.
Robert N. Stavins	Environmental economics and public policy; market based strategies for future climate policy.
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	Physical oceanography; large-scale ocean and climate dynamics; combining ocean data and models.
Richard Vietor	International energy issues, the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes, and strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services.
Steven Wofsy	Chemistry of the atmosphere on global and regional scales, including stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry.
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

Atmospheres, Oceans, 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)
Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements (HKS)
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences