Principal Investigator Ruben Juanes
Project Website http://cee.mit.edu/research/resources/
Food, water, air, energy, materials. Civilization cannot survive without them. They are the resources that keep us functioning. We are looking to revolutionize those resources. We want them to be more accessible, a higher quality, more sustainable. We focus on natural and human-made resources, their extraction, generation, and interaction with the environment.
Key areas include:(*) Water, e.g. the SMART Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling (CENSAM)(*) Atmosphere & air quality, e.g.: Air pollution impacts on global crop yields; Regional hotspots where climate change may severely impact human habitability(*) Food & agriculture, e.g.: Bacterial viruses as pathogen control agents in aquaculture systems; Gravity fingering during water infiltration in soil: Impact on the resilience of crops and vegetation in water-stressed ecosystems(*) Energy, e.g.: Hydraulic Fracturing and Fracture Flow in Rocks; Reservoir-on-a-chip; Simulating Fracture in Geomaterials(*) Material sourcing, e.g. Transforming animal waste to biobinder and bio-petroleum(*) Coastal resilience, e.g.: Green Infrastructure: Vegetated Landscapes and Coastal Protection