Earth on Us

Research

Research guides students to identify environmental issues, analyze their causes and impacts, and develop evidence-based solutions through independent inquiry. Projects are organized across key environmental domains below, helping students apply data, scientific reasoning, and engineering approaches to understand complex environmental systems and inform real-world solutions.

Research Highlights

Air

  1. 1.ANOMALy: A Real-Time Globalized System for Effective Regional Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Emissions… More Info
  2. 2.Using Dropsonde Descending Speed to Determine Vertical Air Velocity in a Hurricane… More Info
  3. 3.Urban Ozone Forecasting and Policy Recommendations Through Photochemical Modeling and Machine Learning… More Info
  4. 4.Mobile Weather Station and Databank… More Info
  5. 5.A Comprehensive Spatiotemporal Model for Interpolation of Tropospheric Fine Particulate Matter Concentration… More Info

Water

  1. 1.PFAS Contamination Data Visualization and Research Tool… More Info
  2. 2.Public Water Systems, PFAS Exposure, and Community Cognitive Risks… More Info
  3. 3.Improved Efficiency of Steam Generation Using Carbon Nanoparticles… More Info
  4. 4.Developing a Sustainable Water Filtration System for Use in Low Income Countries… More Info
  5. 5.Passive Manipulation of Thermal Radiation: Dual Purpose Condensers to Provide Potable Water… More Info
  6. 6.Domestic Wastewater Clarification and Power Generation with Microbial Fuel Cells… More Info

Climate

  1. 1.Modeling Past Atmospheric Conditions Using Ice Core Data from Law Dome and WAIS Divide… More Info
  2. 2.Estimating CO₂ and CH₄ Emissions from Washington DC Using Low-Cost Sensors and Small Drones… More Info
  3. 3.ANOMALy: Real-Time Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrous Oxide Emissions… More Info
  4. 4.Measuring the Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Rivers… More Info
  5. 5.Coupled Hydrodynamic Ocean and Atmospheric Simulation of El Niño… More Info

Chemicals and Toxics

  1. 1.Acoustic Filtration: Ultrasonic Removal of Microplastic Particles from Water… More Info
  2. 2.Global Microplastic Pollution: Ecotoxicological Effects on Aquatic Organisms… More Info
  3. 3.Zeolite Composite for Removal of Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care Products, and PFAS… More Info
  4. 4.Can Ants Help Save the Bees? Screening Pesticide Effects on Honeybee Behavior… More Info

Land and Soil

  1. 1.Detection and Removal of Dinotefuran from the Environment: HPLC-MS Analysis… More Info
  2. 2.Biodegradation of Chlorpyrifos and Soil Remediation Using Native Soil Bacteria… More Info
  3. 3.The Heavy Metal Movement: Phytoremediation with Panicum virgatum L.… More Info
  4. 4.Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Industrial Wastewater Using Algal Alginate… More Info
  5. 5.Arsenic Contamination through Tsunami Wave Movement in Hawaii… More Info

Ecosystems and Biodiversity

  1. 1.Climate Change on Crocodilians: Modeling Phenological Shifts… More Info
  2. 2.Tropicalization of Temperate Ecosystems… More Info
  3. 3.Buffering the Bloom: Nutrient Management and Pond Eutrophication… More Info
  4. 4.Conservation of Wetland Resources with Rhizophora mucronata Nursery… More Info
  5. 5.Effects of Ocean Acidification on Primary Consumers… More Info

Energy

  1. 1.Improved Efficiency of Steam Generation Using Carbon Nanoparticles… More Info
  2. 2.Nature-Derived Carbon Microsheets as Electrocatalyst for Energy Storage… More Info
  3. 3.Proton Induced Thin Film Synaptic Transistors… More Info
  4. 4.Natural Gas Separation and Haber-Bosch with Thermally Rearranged Polymers… More Info
  5. 5.Optimization of Lithium-Sulfur Battery Cathode… More Info

Human Health and Environment

  1. 1.Epigenetic Effects of Hookah Smoke Extract on Human Oral Keratinocytes… More Info
  2. 2.The Effect of Pollutant Bisphenol A on Cancer Cell Proliferation… More Info
  3. 3.Circadian Oscillations in Oral MicroRNA and Microbiome Levels… More Info
  4. 4.Serum Marker of Glyphosate Exposure and Microbiome Composition… More Info
  5. 5.Endocrine Disruptors BPA and BPS Effects on Blaptica dubia Roaches… More Info