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21 results
2024
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
2022
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
2021
2020
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
Developing flexible estimates of agricultural supply functions for answering demand-side agricultural questions
Dave Donaldson, Department of Economics
2018
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
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
2016
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
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
A data-driven approach to managing food security in global supply chains
Retsef Levi, Sloan School of Management
Tauhid Zaman, Sloan School of Management
Y. Karen Zheng, Sloan School of Management
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