Integrated Process for Landfill and Leachate Management: Experimentally Informed Design of Waste-to-Energy Conversation for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Mitigation
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator With her project, Research Assistant Professor Jillian Goldfarb searches for a scheme to reduce the energy required to manage MSW and leachate landfills and develop new ways and materials to reduce waste and slow the spread of contaminants. Goldfarb will address municipal solid waste (MSW) management in urban areas by using […]
Establishment of New Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Monitoring Network in the City of Boston
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Associate Professors Pamela Templer and Lucy Hutyra seek to collect data on the nitrogen deposition levels both within and surrounding city limits by creating the first National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) monitoring system in a city to establish a mechanistic understanding of sources and transformation of emissions and deposition of nitrogen […]
What Lies Beneath: How the History of Boston Impacts its Water Quality Today
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Associate Professor Robinson Fulweiler and Ph.D. candidate Timothy Maguire will conduct a study on the urban groundwater and runoff in Boston to investigate the causes, effects, and extent of nutrient non-point pollution in urbanized subterranean estuaries. Publications Fulweiler, Robinson and Timothy Maguire. 2016. Urban Dissolved Silica: Quantifying the Role of Groundwater […]
Characterizing Urban Areas in the 21st Century: A Data-driven Approach
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Professors Sucharita Gopal and Nathan Phillips use a data-driven approach to define sustainability, resiliency, and metabolism metrics to provide cities across the globe with better ways to use data to address real urban challenges by examining the cities of Boston, New York, and Melbourne. Their research seeks to answer the following […]
Engineering Main Street: The Spatial Dimension of Organizations and Revitalization in Boston
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Ph.D. candidate Taylor Cain, under the advisement of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, seeks to identify how place attributes (including income, racial/ethnic composition, and residential and commercial property values) influence the strategies for and consequences of revitalization in two geographically proximate Main Streets business districts in Boston. Presentations “Competitive Streets: Do Market Driven […]
What Mayors Think: National Politics in Local Policy
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator In their new study, Assistant Professors Katherine Einstein and David Glick, lead authors of the 2014 and 2015 Menino Survey of Mayors, will combine extensive mayoral interview data with municipal capital expenditures, mayoral support for city ordinances and mayoral demographic data. They evaluate the extent to which national policies influence local […]
The Choices, Experiences, and Role of Second Homeowners in Boston
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Led by Ph.D. candidate Meaghan Stiman under the advisement of Professor Japonica Brown-Saracino, this study seeks to understand a rarely studied class of urban resident: the second homeowner. Stiman will evaluate how Boston second homeowners frame their residential choices and experiences, their civic, cultural, and economic contributions, and their impact on […]
Multi-Party Computation Software to Evaluate Pay Equity in the City of Boston
Principal Investigator Co-Principal Investigator Continuing a project that began in November 2014, Professor and Hariri Institute Director Azer Bestavros sought to create a proprietary software tool to enable area corporate employers to anonymously share employee wage data by gender, race/ethnicity, and level. The goal is to track the gender wage gap across thousands of employees […]