Position:
Core Staff
Associate Professor
Email:
sheliem@umich.edu
Website:
Office Location:
1532 Dana Building, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Degrees:
PhD., Civil and Materials Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006
M.E., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, 2001
B.S., Chemistry, Denison University, 2000
Research Interests:
Dr. Miller’s research interests center around the life cycle impacts of emerging energy systems. Recent work focuses on the non-carbon aspects of biofuels, such as disruptions to the nitrogen cycle and changes in land use. Interests also include advancing Life Cycle Assessment methods to analyze dynamic and emerging systems, such as hydraulic fracturing in the US and electricity grids in developing countries.
Projects:
- CAREER: Creation of a Predictive and Dynamic Life Cycle Assessment Tool
- Changes in Energy Use and Water Stress Caused by the Emergence of the Cold Chain
- Comparing toxic emissions of shale gas and coal for electricity
- Developing a Spatially-Explicit Agent-Based Life Cycle Analysis Framework for Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Bioenergy Systems
- Dow Distinguished Awards: De-silting Minor Irrigation Ponds in South India: The Sustainability of Decentralized Resource Distribution
- Integrated Energy-Economy-Environment (3E) Modeling for Clean Vehicle Development in China
- M-Cubed Diamond: Defining Innovative Sustainable Solutions for Film-Based Packages
- M-CUBED: Hydraulic Fracturing of Shales: Water Contamination Risks, Treatment Options, and Fate of Fracking Fluids
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Building the Business Case for Sustainable Agriculture in Asia
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Environmental and Economic Life Cycle Assessment of Alternative Source Water at Bell’s Brewery, Inc.
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Cattle Ranches in the Brazilian Amazon
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Improving Energy Sustainability for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians (LTBB) Reservation
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Life-Cycle Modeling and Environmental Impact Assessment of Commercial Scale Biogas Production
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Modeling Circular Urban Metabolism in Santiago, Chile
- MASTER'S PROJECT: More than Me! Sustainable School Yard Design, Liberia
- MASTER's PROJECT: Towards a Global Plastics Protocol: Policy Solutions for Closing the Loop on Plastics
- Morgan Stanley Plastics Waste Reduction Research and Fellowship
- REFRESCH: Researching Fresh Solutions to the Energy/Water/Food Challenge in Resource-Constrained Environments
- Sustainability and Development Conference - Enterprise Funds
- The Global CO2 Initiative: Transforming a liability into an opportunity
- U.S.-China: Integrated Systems Modeling of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus for Urban Sustainability
- Update Material Production Modules in the GREET 2 Model
- Value of Wind Diversity for Increased Integration of Wind Power into the Grid
Publications:
- A comparison of two methods to conduct material flow analysis on waste tires in a Small Island Developing State
- A Game Theory Analysis of Market Incentives for US Switchgrass Ethanol
- A Stochastic Approach to Model Dynamic Systems in Life Cycle Assessment
- Agent-Based Life Cycle Assessment for Switchgrass-Based Bioenergy Systems
- An applied analysis of the recyclability of electric vehicle battery packs
- Applying Industrial Symbiosis to Smallholder Farms: Modeling a Case Study in Liberia, West Africa
- Assessing The Non-Carbon Impacts Of An Emerging Bioenergy Industry
- Avoiding the unintended consequences of bioenergy
- Beyond Life Cycle Analysis: Using an Agent-Based Approach to Model the Emerging Bio-Energy Industry
- Carbon dioxide utilization in concrete curing or mixing might not produce a net climate benefit
- Cellulosic ethanol production: Landscape scale net carbon strongly affected by forest decision making
- Comparative Human Toxicity Impact of Electricity Produced from Shale Gas and Coal
- Comparison of Life Cycle Environmental Impacts from Meal Kits and Grocery Store Meals
- Critical Research Needed to Examine the Environmental Impacts of Expanded Refrigeration on the Food System
- Emerging challenges and opportunities for the food-energy-water nexus in urban systems
- Estimating maximum land use change potential from a regional biofuel industry
- Evaluating The Development And Demographics Of Electrical Grids In Third World Countries Through Agent Based Models
- Framework for Analyzing Transformative Technologies in Life Cycle Assessment
- Growing Algae for Biodiesel on Direct Sunlight or Sugars: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment
- Growing Algae for Biodiesel on Direct Sunlight or Sugars: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment [Conference Proceedings]
- Impact of Updated Material Production Data in GREET Life Cycle Model
- Improving Rural Electricity System Planning: An agent-based model for stakeholder engagement and decision making
- Informing the Development of the Renewable Energy Sector in Liberia through Industrial Ecology and Complexity
- Life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: Evaluation techniques at different stages of market and technical maturity
- Life Cycle Assessment of End-of-Life Treatments for Plastic Film Waste
- Life Cycle Material Data Update for GREET Model
- Modeling nitrogen loss from switchgrass agricultural systems
- Modelling the Socio-Economic Impacts of Modern Bioenergy in Rural Communities in Ghana
- Overview of cold chain development in China and methods of studying its environmental impacts
- Planning the Development of Electricity Grids in Developing Countries: An Initial Approach Using Agent Based Models
- Policy incentives for switchgrass production using valuation of non-market ecosystem services
- Potential for Integrating Diffusion of Innovation Principles into Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies
- Potential Greenhouse Gas Changes from Refrigerated Supply Chain Introduction in a Developing Food System
- Potentials of GHG Emission Reductions from Cold from Cold Chain Systems: Case studies of China and the United States
- Predicting The Future: Determining Biomass Production Of New Crops For Bioenergy
- Quantifying the Urban Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: The Case of the Detroit Metropolitan Area
- Reference and Functional Unit Can Change Bioenergy Pathway Choices
- Regional differences in impacts to water quality from the bioenergy mandate
- Satisfying the Rural Residential Demand in Liberia with Decentralized Renewable Energy Schemes
- Sustainability implications of connected and autonomous vehicles for the food supply chain
- The Environmental Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles Depends on Adoption Patterns
- The environmental opportunity cost of using renewable energy for carbon capture and utilization for methanol production
- The need for and path to harmonized life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessment for carbon dioxide capture and utilization
- Using DAYCENT to quantify impacts of land use conversion to nitrogen-managed switchgrass in the southern U.S.
- Water quality impacts of converting intensively managed agricultural lands to switchgrass