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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
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
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
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
2022
Sustainable hydrogel microparticles for the removal of micropollutants from water
Patrick Doyle, Department of Chemical Engineering
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 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
Off-grid portable ion concentration polarization desalination unit
Jongyoon Han, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biological Engineering
2020
Using siderophore-conjugated microcins to combat foodborne pathogens
Elizabeth M. Nolan, Department of Chemistry
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
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
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
2019
Understanding effects of intermittent flow on drinking water quality
Andrew J. Whittle, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
2018
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
Manufacturing and marketing E. coli test kits to promote safely managed drinking water and improved public health in Nepal
Susan Murcott, MIT D-Lab
Jeffrey S. Ravel, Department of History
What controls arsenic contamination in South Asia? Making sense of two-decades of disjointed data
Charles Harvey, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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
High-efficiency chemical-free backwash strategy for reverse osmosis membrane antifouling
Xuanhe Zhao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
John H. Lienhard V
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
Developing intelligent selective electrodialysis for 21st century agriculture
John H. Lienhard V
Kishor Nayar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
2016
Estimating the benefits to strengthening water markets
Christopher Knittel, Sloan School of Management
Development of low-cost water filter using sapwood xylem
Amy Smith, MIT D-Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Active materials for heavy metal extraction from water
Timothy Swager, Department of Chemistry
Electrochemically-mediated adsorptive processes for water-remediation
T. Alan Hatton, Department of Chemical Engineering
Floating, heat localizing solar receivers for distributed desalination
Gang Chen, Department of Mechanical 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
Fouling-resistant nanoporous membranes
Jeffrey C. Grossman, Department of Materials Science and 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
Enabling distributed water quality management by dry sample preservation and centralized analysis
Rohit Karnik, Department of Mechanical Engineering
John Hart, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Chintan Vaishnav, Sloan School of Management
Electrochemically-modulated separation processes for the treatment of contaminated water sources
T. Alan Hatton, Department of Chemical Engineering