Business & Finance

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Isa Gaillard

2019 Fellow
City planner with extensive experience overseeing capacity building, sustainable transportation, and environmental justice projects.
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Sherry Login: Making the grid more efficient by incentivizing off-peak charging

Fellow Sherry Login, the manager of electric vehicles for Consolidated Edison (Con Edison) in New York, manages all customer-facing electric vehicle (EV) programs for the company. Her special project, however, is SmartCharge New York, an off-peak charging incentive program that she created two years ago.
May 21, 2019
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Holmes Hummel: Accelerating private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions

Fellow Holmes Hummel is the Founding Director of Clean Energy Works, a nonprofit organization that seeks to accelerate private capital utility investments in inclusive clean energy solutions.
May 21, 2019
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Derek Lemoine: Predicting future behavior despite a relative scarcity of data

Fellow Derek Lemoine is an Associate Professor of Economics at The University of Arizona, where his research combines economic theory and computational methods to better understand the dynamics of environmental policy and of energy systems.
May 21, 2019
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Richter publishes on sixty years of research and inaction on fluorinated compounds

Lauren Richter has published an article in Social Studies of Science, "Non-stick science: Sixty years of research and (in)action on fluorinated compounds" about how the risks of PFASs have been both structurally hidden and unexamined by existing regulatory and industry practice. Abstract
October 2, 2018
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Sustainable Aquaculture Communities

Aquaculture is experiencing extremely fast growth in Maine, as it is in other parts of the country and around the world. Fishing is a critical part of Maine's economy; aquaculture is becoming more and more prevalent as commercial fishermen...
June 12, 2018
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Janelle Heslop

2018 Fellow
Janelle Heslop is the Associate Director for Strategy and Innovation at NASA’s Earth Science Division, where she leads strategic initiatives and partnerships that connect cutting-edge science with real-world applications. With a background in engineering and business, she works at the intersection of technology, innovation, and strategic decision-making to drive meaningful change for our planet.
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Daniel Morris: Fiscal impacts of major disasters on government planning

How do we ensure funds are available on a national or even international scale when climate disasters strike? Daniel Morris, who is currently Advisor to the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank, has spent recent years thinking about how to make communities and countries more financially resilient in the face of catastrophic disasters in the future.
May 29, 2018
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Moore finds even Obama administration may have set social cost of carbon too low

As the Trump administration slashes federal estimates of the future costs of climate change, new research suggests that even the much higher cost calculated by the Obama administration might be too low.
March 14, 2018
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Wironen quoted on Vermont governor's manure-to-money scheme

Vermont has a problem. The state is $1.2 billion short of the funding it will need to meet federal targets for reducing pollution in state waterways. To solve that problem, Gov. Phil Scott suggested a creative solution last week in his budget address: Turning the pollutant into a commodity and selling it out of state. The pollutant is phosphorus, a primary ingredient of fertilizer, which is widely used in farming. ...
February 14, 2018