Research Publications

Clean hydrogen is a promising decarbonization pathway, yet it continues to face a chicken-and-egg problem where high costs and sparse infrastructure have not aligned with demand. To better coordinate ...

This article, the ninth in the series, presents kinetic and photochemical data sheets evaluated by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Task Group on Atmospheric Chemical...

Climate change is fueling more frequent and severe droughts, with growing consequences for water security, food production, biodiversity, and ecological wellbeing. Yet responses remain too often react...

This essay considers the political potential of informality as a force for challenging authoritarianism and creating more equal and democratic outcomes. Building on Bandauko's concept of ‘subaltern su...

As solar capacity grows in the United States, there are increasing concerns about managing End-of-Life (EoL) photovoltaic (PV) modules. Circularity through reuse and recycling aims to reduce EoL manag...

This capstone project evaluated the technical and economic feasibility of producing hydrogen for return-to-base trucking in Southeast Michigan. Two hydrogen production pathways were studied: green hyd...

Urban agriculture (UA) is frequently promoted as a pathway to improve urban sustainability, food security, and resilience, yet cross-city evidence on its scalable, system-wide impacts remains limited ...

Urbanization drives global socio-spatial transformation. Informality is central to this transformation, but is treated as a peripheral process on the margins of cities and economies. Informality is of...

This article examines the securitization of the Marange diamond industry in Zimbabwe, arguing that it represents a deliberate political strategy to engineer an “architecture of opacity” for regime sur...

Intermittent water supply (IWS), where piped water is not continuously available, can compromise water security and quality. Extreme rainfall may exacerbate these risks by enabling microbial contamina...

Global warming and electric heat pump adoption will, together, likely have a complex effect on energy burdens in the United States. Here, for 10,000 representative buildings in 28 U.S. cities, we esti...

Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is often informal and constitutes the leading nonfarm source of rural income in much of the world. Despite international support, over a billion dollars invested...

Growing evidence suggests that extreme precipitation increases over most regions globally as the climate warms. However, it remains poorly understood how the fraction of annual precipitation from extr...

We comment on the recent article by Vincent at al.

Meeting global decarbonization targets requires large-scale, low-carbon hydrogen (H2) production around midcentury. A crucial pathway for this production is electrolysis driven by renewables, tying hy...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are key to transportation decarbonization, yet their battery performance and longevity are vulnerable to temperature extremes, which will be affected by climate change. Battery...

Urban resource circularity – the symbiotic sharing of material and energy between urban actors - reduces demand for raw resources and waste generation. Researchers currently lack a unified vernacular ...

We present here a systematic evaluation of the molar yields of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), perfluoropropanoic acid (PFPrA), and perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) from the atmospheric degradation of gases ...

This essay critically engages with the concept of ‘crisis urbanism’, situating it within the broader dialectics of contemporary urban life. It examines whether crises have become a persistent and stru...

We assess the total cost of ownership (TCO) of internal combustion engine (ICEV), hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in the United States. As previous studies ha...

We survey a representative sample of ~1000 rural Michigan residents to understand their constraints and attitudes around electric vehicle (EV) adoption and find that only 5% of respondents would choos...

Freshwater systems are undergoing unprecedented pressures from climate-induced changes in seasonal patterns and intensification of hydrological extremes. The Laurentian Great Lakes Basin (GLB), which ...