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Denise
Mauzerall

William S. Tod Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Public and International Affairs

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Research interests: Using science to inform far-sighted air quality policy that considers impacts of air pollution on health, agriculture and climate change. Investigations include: Climatic benefit of black carbon (soot) mitigation; global crop yield reductions due to ozone exposure; inter-continental transport of fine aerosols; impact of emissions of aerosols from China on global air quality, mortality and radiative forcing.

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Denise Mauzerall was recognized for her work translating air pollution studies into research outcomes with relevance for public policy. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

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Naomi Cohen-Shields of Princeton’s Class of 2020 analyzed the effectiveness of China’s efforts to reduce air pollution for her senior thesis research. She also investigated how air pollution differs across China’s provinces based on regional affluence — and if poor populations face more exposure. Cohen-Shields is pictured at the Great Wall of China in December 2019.

Senior thesis: Naomi Cohen-Shields explores who benefits as China cleans its air

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James McSpiritt, an optomechanical engineer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, adjusts an eddy covariance tower, a stationary device used to measure air pollution. (Photo by Bernhard Buchholz)

Controlling methane is a fast and critical way to slow global warming, say Princeton experts

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A survey of offshore installations extracting oil and natural gas in the North Sea revealed far more leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, than currently estimated by the British government. The researchers, who conducted the survey using a laser-based device mounted on small fishing boats, believe a careful analysis of leakage from offshore platforms is important for global emissions inventories and for mitigating climate change. Photo by Stuart Riddick

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fundamental insights into the built and natural environments, and interactions between the two

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Princeton School of Public and International Affairs