Policy
Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
Director, MIT Sea Grant, Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering Professor of Mechanical & Ocean Engineering Home Phone: 617 253-7131 Personal Email: chrys@mit.edu Interest Areas: autonomous underwater vehicles Website WebsiteDevelopment of technology and systems for advanced autonomous surface and underwater vehicles.
Harry F. Hemond
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-1637 Personal Email: hfhemond@mit.edu Interest Areas: biogeochemistry, renewable energy Website WebsiteEarth’s biochemical cycles and development of novel observational systems to study those cycles; methods to interact sustainably with the natural environment.
Nicolas Makris
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 258-6104 Personal Email: makris@mit.edu Interest Areas: engineering, remote sensing Website WebsiteOcean exploration, remote sensing of marine life and geophysical phenomena, census of marine life, ocean acoustics, and hurricane classification.
Noelle Eckley Selin
Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems and Atmospheric Chemistry Home Phone: (617) 324-2592 Personal Email: selin@mit.edu Interest Areas: Engineering Systems Division and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Website WebsiteMy research focuses on using atmospheric chemistry modeling to inform decision-making strategies on air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Lawrence Susskind
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning; Director, MIT Science Impact Collaborative Home Phone: (617) 253-2026 Personal Email: susskind@mit.edu Interest Areas: Urban and Environmental Planning Website WebsiteTheory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, the practice of public engagement in local decision-making, the resolution of science-intensive policy disputes, renewable energy policy, climate change adaptation and the land claims of Indigenous Peoples; many areas of his work relate to ocean and coastal resource management.
