Research Publications

Legislation and standards governing the built environment are transforming in response to the climate crisis, imperatives for decarbonization, and concern for building occupants’ mental and physiologi...

Water distribution systems (WDS) and power distribution systems (PDS) are strongly connected and mutually affect each other. Recently, several studies suggested accounting for this dependency to enhan...

Lake surface temperature extremes have shifted over recent decades, leading to significant ecological and economic impacts. Here, we employed a hydrodynamic-ice model, driven by climate data, to recon...

Hydrogen, an attractive energy carrier due to its high energy content per unit mass, offers   multiple promising pathways towards significant global decarbonization efforts when produced with ren...

This review examines the potential direct and indirect (synthetic fuels) uses of hydrogen in road, rail, air, and marine transportation. Key physical properties of hydrogen (e.g., energy density) are ...

Residential and commercial buildings account for 75% of electricity and 40% of the total energy consumption in the United States, costing over $400 billion annually. Electrification and energy efficie...

Limited strategies exist for chemical recycling of commodity diene polymers, like those found in tyres. Here we apply C–H amination and backbone rearrangement of polymers to deconstruct these material...

This Assessment Update by the Environmental Effects Assessment Panel (EEAP) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) addresses the interacting effects of changes in stratospheric ozone, sola...

Numerous life cycle assessments (LCA) have been performed on tomato production; however, results vary greatly due to different system boundaries and assumptions, tomato production methods, and geograp...

Clothes dryers emit 27 million tonnes CO2e annually in the US. Decarbonization efforts prioritize energy efficiency and electrification, overlooking effective behavioral changes like line and off-peak...

The formation of winter stratification and thermal structure in general across the Great Lakes varies in character not just between lakes, but interannually within individual lakes. Three large datase...

Home weatherization could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve residents' health and comfort. However, uptake in disadvantaged communities, which could benefit the most, is low. Here we assess ...

The Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) and the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) hosted a summit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from 22 to 23 July 2024. The event brou...

There is a growing interest in hydrogen for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industries. However, determining which industries to target, the scale of the opportunity, and how to meet the hydrogen demand o...

Expanding reusable takeout container systems using a returnable model may be accomplished through a city-wide centralized collection, washing, and redistribution system. We constructed an LCA model an...

The use of transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Uber and Lyft, is widespread in many US cities, including those with good transit. However, transit use produces smaller externalities relat...

Lake surface conditions are critical for representing lake-atmosphere interactions in numerical weather prediction. The Community Land Model's 1-D lake component (CLM-lake) is part of NOAA's High-Reso...

Electric vehicle battery (EVB) durability is critical for enabling affordable decarbonization of the transportation sector. However, the rising global temperatures pose great risks to battery lifespan...

As part of the green transition new technologies and chemical compounds are being introduced with lower climate impact. One example is the replacement of halogenated compounds with high global warming...

The summer 2024 federal electricity reliability assessment found large areas of the country are at risk for electricity shortages because of high-impact weather patterns causing supply and demand imba...

Hydrogen (H2) is critical for the decarbonization of transportation and industrial sectors, but its production cost and carbon footprint are vulnerable to the variability of renewable energy. Also, ex...

AbstractTo differentiate and understand drivers behind coastal ice cover trends and variability, we advance development of a model combining satellite, in situ, and teleconnection data along the shore...

Chemical mechanisms form the core of atmospheric models to describe degradation pathways of pollutants and ultimately inform air quality and climate policymakers and other stakeholders. The accuracy o...

PurposeLaser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing (AM) enables the design of complex parts using materials that are otherwise difficult to fabricate. Due to the high cost of machines, the p...