Prof. Noelle Eckley Selin
Director, Technology and Policy Program (TPP)
Primary DLC
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Air Quality and Health
Policy and Regulations for Environmental Sustainability
Global Modeling of Toxic Emissions, Including Impact on Health
Research Summary
Research aims to inform sustainable management approaches to atmospheric pollutants, through understanding the processes and interactions of global environmental contamination from a systems perspective. Specifically, we develop new tools to better understand and quantify the pathway by which emissions of toxic substances travel and transform in the atmosphere to impact humans and the environment away from sources. The ultimate goal is to inform sustainability transitions. This research addresses fundamental scientific questions about the atmospheric behavior of contaminants, while addressing the engineering challenge of designing analytical tools to inform management strategies. Research addresses a conceptual system in which human activities create emissions, pollutants are then transported near and far, leading to human exposure and eventual health impacts. These human and environmental impacts lead to economic consequences and policy responses (including regulation) which can then modify emissions. The research examines all of the aspects of this system, and develops new modeling tools including fast-running model emulators to help understand interactions and feedbacks.
The lab's work has recently been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Biogen, Inc., and the MIT Superfund Center as well as through MIT’s Climate Grand Challenges.
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Projects
April 1, 2022Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Bringing Computation to the Climate Challenge
Principal Investigators Raffaele Ferrari , Noelle Selin
September 1, 2020Healthy Climate, Healthy Lives
Principal Investigators Ronald Prinn , Noelle Selin
October 19, 2016Center for Sustainability Science and StrategyInternational Mercury Regulation
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
July 21, 2016Center for Sustainability Science and StrategyClimate and Environment Focus Area: Regulating Particulate Pollution
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
July 29, 2015Center for Sustainability Science and StrategyEconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
July 29, 2015Center for Sustainability Science and StrategyHuman Activities and Emissions
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
July 29, 2015Center for Sustainability Science and StrategySelin Group: Pollution, Impacts and Policy at MIT
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
July 29, 2015Center for Sustainability Science and StrategyAtmospheric Fate and Transport of Pollutants
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
July 29, 2015Center for Sustainability Science and StrategyHuman Exposure and Health Impacts
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
November 20, 2013Center for Sustainability Science and StrategySustainable Infrastructure Planning System (SIPS)
Principal Investigator Noelle Selin
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Books
Publication date: October 15, 2020Books
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability through a Volatile Element
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Video
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Noelle Eckley Selin
Professor
Director, MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP)
Primary Appointment - MIT Institute for Data, Systems & Society (IDSS)11.17.20-Climate-Relate-Panel
Henry Jacoby
Professor of Management (Emeritus), Sloan School of Management
Jill Engel-Cox
Director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis
C. Adam Schlosser
Deputy Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Global Change Science (CGCS)
Sergey Paltsev
Deputy Director, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Senior Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative and MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR)
Director, Energy at Scale Center
Noelle Eckley Selin
Associate Professor in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences