Finalists
Five flagship and 22 finalist projects were selected from a field of nearly 100 letters of interest.
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| Title | MIT Faculty and Researchers |
| Policy innovation and experimentation for effective and equitable climate solutions | Abhijit Banerjee (lead), Iqbal Dhaliwal (lead), Claire Walsh (lead), Clare Balboni, Sarah DiCioccio, Gabrielle Hauray, Namrata Kala, Benjamin Olken, Maike Pfeiffer, Adrien Rose, Andrea Christina Ruiz |
| Protecting and enhancing natural carbon sinks - Natural Climate and Community Solutions (NCCS) | John Fernandez (lead), Daniela Rus (lead), Joann de Zegher (lead), John Aldridge, Marcela Angel, Deborah Campbell, Alessandra Fabbri, John Loomis, Björn Lütjens, Luis Gilberto Murillo-Urrutia, Dava Newman, Roberto Rigobon, Cesar Terrer |
| Reducing group-based disparities in climate adaptation | Evan Lieberman (lead), Danielle Wood (lead), Siqi Zheng (lead), Kristi Acuff, Ann-Marsha Alexis, Paige Bollen, Volha Charnysh, Fabio Duarte, Sideena Grace, Nicolas Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Nadia Khan, Rorisang Lekalake, Asya Magazinnik, Dava Newman, Nicolas Studen |
| The Deep Listening Project: Communication infrastructure for collaborative adaptation | Eric Gordon (lead), Yihyun Lim (lead), James Paradis (lead), Kat Cizek, Caesar McDowell, Deb Roy, William Uricchio, Sarah Wolozin |
| The Equitable Resilience Framework | Janelle Knox-Hayes (lead), Nicholas Ashford, David Birge, Gabriella Carolini, Rania Ghosn, Sally Haslanger, Caroline Jones, Miho Mazereeuw, Caitlin Mueller, Leslie Norford, Mary Anne Ocampo, Eric Robsky Huntley, Justin Steil, Lawrence Vale, Sarah Williams, Nicholas de Monchaux |
| Title | MIT Faculty and Researchers |
| Carbon>Building | Mark Goulthorpe (lead), Nicola Ferralis, Jeff Grossman, A. John Hart, Jeremiah Johnson, James E. Kelsey, Randy Kirchain, Christopher Knittel, Richard Roth, Brian Wardle |
| Decarbonizing and strengthening the global energy infrastructure using nuclear batteries | Jacopo Buongiorno (lead), Ross Allen, Sacit Cetiner, Fabio Duarte, Kerry Emanuel, Nicholas Fang, Benoit Forget, Charles Forsberg, Jeremy Gregory, Ruonan Han, Asegun Henry, Christopher Knittel, Gordon Kohse, Ju Li, John Parsons, David Rand, Carlo Ratti, Guiseppe Romano, Daniela Rus, Koroush Shirvan, Neil Todreas, Jessika Trancik, Kripa Varanasi, Erez Yoeli |
| Emissions reduction through innovation in the textile industry | Yuly Fuentes-Medel (lead), Greg Rutledge (lead), Svetlana Boriskina, Jeremy Gregory, A.John Hart, Jeremiah Johnson, Randolph Kirchain, Dava Newman, Bradley Olsen, Joseph Paradiso, Kristala Prather, David Rand, Zachary Smith, Luis Velasquez-Garcia, Erez Yoeli |
| Rapid decarbonization of freight mobility | Yossi Sheffi (lead), Matthias Winkenbach (lead), Christopher Caplice, Henry Chen, David Correl, Jarrod Goentzel, Xiaotong Guo, Angelo Gurgel, Annie Hudson, Milena Janjevic, Jonas Lehmann, Sergey Paltsev, Anson Steward, Josué Velázquez Martínez , Shenhao Wang, Jinhua Zhao |
| Solar fuels as a vector for climate change mitigation | Yuriy Román-Leshkov (lead), Yogesh Surendranath (lead), Martin Bazant, Christopher Cummins, Randall Field, Emre Gencer, William Green, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Sergey Paltsev, Alexander Radosevich, Yang Shao-Horn, Zachary Smith, Gregory Stephanopoulos, Robert Stoner, Troy Van Voorhis, Alison Wendlandt, Bilge Yildiz |
| The MIT Low-Carbon Co-Design Institute | Audun Botterud (lead), Dharik Mallapragada (lead), Robert Stoner (lead), Saurabh Amin, Anuradha Annaswamy, Clare Balboni, Kirkor Bozdogan, Antje Danielson, Pablo Duenas-Martinez, Kerry Emanuel, Betar Gallant, Emre Gencer, T. Alan Hatton, Marija Ilic, Christopher Knittel, Donald Lessard, Jennifer Morris, Elsa Olivetti, Sergey Paltsev, Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Christoph Reinhart, Angeliki Diane Rigos, Sanjay Sarma, Richard Schmalensee, Andy Sun, Yogesh Surendranath, Jessika Trancik |
| Tough to Decarbonize Transportation | Steven Barrett (lead), William Green (lead), Florian Allroggen, Angela Belcher, Peter Belobaba, Sebastian Eastham, Christoph Falter, Randall Field, Betar Gallant, Emre Gencer, Ahmed Ghoniem, Edward Greitzer, Carmen Guerra-Garcia, John Hansman, Wesley Harris, Dan Hastings, T. Alan Hatton, David Hsu, Chris Knittel, Jing Li, Dava Newman, Sergey Paltsev, David Perreault, Kristala Prather, Ronald Prinn, Yuriy Roman, Jayant Sabnis, Shanbhogue Santosh, Adam Schlosser, Noelle Selin, Zolti Spakovszky, Ray Speth, Gregory Stephanopoulos, Yogesh Surendranath, Jessika Trancik, Kripa Varanasi, Ian Waitz, Jinhua Zhao |
| Title | MIT Faculty and Researchers |
| Demonstrating safe, globally distributed geological CO2 storage at scale | Bradford Hager (lead), Howard Herzog (lead), Ruben Juanes (lead), Michael Fehler |
| Deploying versatile carbon capture technologies and storage at scale | Betar Gallant (lead), Bradford Hager (lead), T. Alan Hatton (lead), Fikile Brushett, Randall Field, Emre Gencer, Jeffrey Grossman, Howard Herzog, Christopher Knittel, Jennifer Morris, Sergey Paltsev, Kristala Prather, Yang Shao-Horn, Zachary Smith, Robert Stoner, Yogesh Surendranath, Timothy Swager, Kripa Varanasi |
| Directed Evolution of Biological Carbon Fixation Working Group at MIT (DEBC-MIT) | Edward Boyden (lead), Matthew Shoulders (lead), Fábio Duarte, Claire Gorman, Robert Wilson |
| Managing sources and sinks of carbon in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems | Charles Harvey (lead), Tami Lieberman (lead), Heidi Nepf (lead), Saurabh Amin, David Des Marais, David Hsu, David McGee, Darcy McRose, J. Taylor Perron, Cesar Terrer |
| Strategies to reduce atmospheric methane | Desiree Plata (lead), Saurabh Amin, John Hart, Charles Harvey, Harold Hemond, Asegun Henry, David Hsu, Jeremiah Johnson, Sheila Kennedy, Heather Kulik, Leslie Norford, Shuhei Ono, James Paradis, Yuriy Román, Yang Shao-Horn, Zachary Smith, Michael Strano, Yogesh Surendranath, Timothy Swager, Jessika Trancik, Bilge Yildiz |
| The Advanced Carbon Mineralization Initiative | Edward Boyden (lead), Matěj Peč (lead), Yogesh Surendranath (lead), Martin Bazant, Emre Gencer, Bradford Hager, Oliver Jagoutz, Admir Masic, Shuhei Ono, Yuriy Roman, Kripa Varanasi, Shuguang Zhang |
| Title | MIT Faculty and Researchers |
| Ocean vital signs | Christopher Hill (lead), Ryan Woosley (lead), Fadel Adib, Andrew Babbin, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Alan Edelman, Raffaele Ferrari, Gael Forget, Oliver Jahn, Jon Lauderdale, John Marshall, Dava Newman, Mark Veillette, Greg Wagner, Danielle Wood |
| Quantifying and managing the risks of sea-level rise | Brent Minchew (lead), Carolina Bastidas, Camilla Cattania, Pedro Elosegui, William Frank, Janelle Knox-Hayes, John Marshall, David McGee, Nori Nakata, Sai Ravela, Brent Ryan, William Wheaton, Andrew Whittle |
| Stratospheric Airborne Climate Observatory System to initiate a climate risk forecasting revolution | R. John Hansman (lead), Brent Minchew (lead), John Ashcom, Brian Aull, David Burke, John Cho, Mark Drela, Kerry Emanuel, Dara Entekhabi, T.Y. Fan, Bob Galeis, William Herzog, Jalal Khan, Matt Stowe, Dave Wolinski, Beijia Zhang |
| The future of coasts - Changing flood risk for coastal communities in the developing world | Dara Entekhabi (lead), Miho Mazereeuw (lead), Danielle Wood (lead) |