{"id":180352,"date":"2016-03-01T10:34:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webadmin.news-harvard.go-vip.net\/gazette\/gazette\/?p=180352"},"modified":"2016-03-01T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:34:05","slug":"1m-in-grants-to-support-10-climate-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/1m-in-grants-to-support-10-climate-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"$1M in grants to support 10 climate research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-square has-light-background has-colored-heading\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tScience &amp; Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\t$1M in grants to support 10 climate research projects\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"author wp-block-post-author__name\">\n\t\tKate Kondayen\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">\n\t\t\tHarvard Correspondent\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2016-03-01\">\n\t\t\tMarch 1, 2016\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t5 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tSix Harvard Schools gain support from Climate Change Solutions Fund\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-2c3b710d-aa44-4e50-bffe-981437d4aa03\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/river_climategrants_605.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/\">\n\t\t\tScience &amp; Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/02\/support-for-seven-from-presidents-climate-fund\/\">Support for seven from president\u2019s climate fund<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2015-02-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2015\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t8 min read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Belching smokestacks and idling cars may be the typical scapegoats for climate change, but millions of other factors contribute \u2014 sometimes ones we never think twice about, like cracking a window because the heat is too high or small leaks from old gas lines.<\/p>\n<p>As communities around the globe move to dramatically reduce emissions in an effort to curb the impact of climate change, researchers across Harvard are developing new energy technologies and promoting changes large and small to speed solutions on the local, regional, and global levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/president-fausts-climate-initiative-awards-1m-in-grants\/\">Ten research projects<\/a> driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">Climate Change Solutions Fund,<\/a> an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The projects sound as futuristic as shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere to deflect the sun\u2019s rays \u2014 and as down-to-earth as grassroots community campaigns to spark behavior changes at home. But the common threads are creativity and collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, forging an effort in which nontraditional factors of climate change are examined from multiple viewpoints in order to contribute inspired solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research wouldn&#8217;t happen in\u00a0our silos,\u201d said Holly Samuelson, an assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who is working with researcher Jose Guillermo Cede\u00f1o Laurent from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The pair will use Harvard\u2019s campus as a \u201cliving laboratory\u201d to find a better way to measure the overall climate impact of existing buildings, leveraging data from occupant behavior to improve construction and renovation planning tools for the indoor spaces where we spend most of our time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o Laurent has developed a way to passively gather data on occupant behavior through an algorithm that correlates environmental measures like temperature, noise, and carbon dioxide levels with activity data collected from wearable devices \u2014 in this case, donned by volunteer Harvard undergrads. The refinements in understanding of occupant behavior are critical to help building professionals design infrastructure that reduces environmental impact and offsets the challenges of changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal in life is not to build buildings, but [to] produce some kind of output in those buildings,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cIt\u2019s possible to have very energy-efficient buildings that are very unhealthy, and also it\u2019s possible to waste a lot of energy striving toward health goals in some buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the more nuanced occupant behavior data, Cede\u00f1o Laurent and Samuelson can develop and test a framework to assess a\u00a0building\u2019s performance on indoor environmental quality as well as energy use, metrics that tend to be evaluated separately today to the detriment of the green building movement. Using that framework, they will be able to\u00a0improve the accuracy of the energy models used to evaluate building performance.\u00a0Through the gathering of human and operational data, patterns emerge \u2014 and from patterns, more accurate predictions on occupant behavior and its prompts. Applying these patterns and predictions into energy modeling software could provide new insights for creating eco- and user-friendly spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, energy models are not used as much as they could be due to the costs of customization to each particular design project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the box, there are just so many thousands of knobs to turn in these energy simulations. They\u2019re\u00a0accurate enough to aid in\u00a0certain design\u00a0decisions, but to combat climate change, we need a more dependable\u00a0way to predict the results of riskier investments in\u00a0building design and operations,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cWe know that our buildings in the developed world operate very poorly across the board, but the problem is that every building is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuelson hopes an improved modeling system will become a standard part of design decision-making, not just in new construction but in retrofits and operational decisions. She cited once finding annual savings of $120,000 for a building just in changing operations of the cooling system. Multiply those energy savings times the millions of existing buildings in the country, and the environmental gains and financial payoffs could be huge.<\/p>\n<p>While Samuelson is working on realizing potential energy savings that enhance human well-being, other researchers are trying to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, will focus on lowering the costs of solar cells by exploring the use of commercially available organic dyes as the solar energy conversion component.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from their extraordinary adaptability, organic solar cells also carry greater potential for material application \u2014 like fabric. Think jackets that could charge your smartphone, or tarps covering rooftops in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started our search for organic solar materials, many things have changed. Manufacturers have lowered the cost for silicon, and a new class of materials has taken the world by storm,\u201d said Aspuru-Guzik, saying that although the market has improved, \u201corganics still have a niche. Where 2 billion people have no access to electricity, their costs will matter a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some costs have no dollar amount. Widely touted as more environmentally friendly than other energy sources, new hydroelectric sites release large pulses of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, where it persists for between 10 and 30 years, with global effects.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Elsie Sunderland, Daniel Jacob, also of the Paulson School, and James Hammitt of the Chan School are looking at the impact of methane released from dams to try to identify feasible alternatives. The project will track present methane releases, making use of satellite imagery, to help raise awareness of the issue among policymakers and inform decision-makers about future hydroelectric dams.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland echoed a sentiment from many of the fund\u2019s winners, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so excited that this research has been funded: This will do a lot in terms of starting that dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten research projects driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105622744,"featured_media":180356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gz_ga_pageviews":16,"gz_ga_lastupdated":"2017-10-06 03:40","document_color_palette":null,"author":"Kate Kondayen","affiliation":"Harvard Correspondent","_category_override":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1387],"tags":[8546,8551,8554,12464,27989],"gazette-formats":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-180352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-solutions-fund","tag-climate-research","tag-environments-sustainability","tag-president-drew-fausts-climate-change-solutions-fund"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$1M in grants to support 10 climate research projects &#8212; 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Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/02\/support-for-seven-from-presidents-climate-fund\/\">Support for seven from president\u2019s climate fund<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2015-02-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2015\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t8 min read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\r\n<p>Belching smokestacks and idling cars may be the typical scapegoats for climate change, but millions of other factors contribute \u2014 sometimes ones we never think twice about, like cracking a window because the heat is too high or small leaks from old gas lines.<\/p>\n<p>As communities around the globe move to dramatically reduce emissions in an effort to curb the impact of climate change, researchers across Harvard are developing new energy technologies and promoting changes large and small to speed solutions on the local, regional, and global levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/president-fausts-climate-initiative-awards-1m-in-grants\/\">Ten research projects<\/a> driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">Climate Change Solutions Fund,<\/a> an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The projects sound as futuristic as shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere to deflect the sun\u2019s rays \u2014 and as down-to-earth as grassroots community campaigns to spark behavior changes at home. But the common threads are creativity and collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, forging an effort in which nontraditional factors of climate change are examined from multiple viewpoints in order to contribute inspired solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research wouldn't happen in\u00a0our silos,\u201d said Holly Samuelson, an assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who is working with researcher Jose Guillermo Cede\u00f1o Laurent from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The pair will use Harvard\u2019s campus as a \u201cliving laboratory\u201d to find a better way to measure the overall climate impact of existing buildings, leveraging data from occupant behavior to improve construction and renovation planning tools for the indoor spaces where we spend most of our time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o Laurent has developed a way to passively gather data on occupant behavior through an algorithm that correlates environmental measures like temperature, noise, and carbon dioxide levels with activity data collected from wearable devices \u2014 in this case, donned by volunteer Harvard undergrads. The refinements in understanding of occupant behavior are critical to help building professionals design infrastructure that reduces environmental impact and offsets the challenges of changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal in life is not to build buildings, but [to] produce some kind of output in those buildings,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cIt\u2019s possible to have very energy-efficient buildings that are very unhealthy, and also it\u2019s possible to waste a lot of energy striving toward health goals in some buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the more nuanced occupant behavior data, Cede\u00f1o Laurent and Samuelson can develop and test a framework to assess a\u00a0building\u2019s performance on indoor environmental quality as well as energy use, metrics that tend to be evaluated separately today to the detriment of the green building movement. Using that framework, they will be able to\u00a0improve the accuracy of the energy models used to evaluate building performance.\u00a0Through the gathering of human and operational data, patterns emerge \u2014 and from patterns, more accurate predictions on occupant behavior and its prompts. Applying these patterns and predictions into energy modeling software could provide new insights for creating eco- and user-friendly spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, energy models are not used as much as they could be due to the costs of customization to each particular design project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the box, there are just so many thousands of knobs to turn in these energy simulations. They\u2019re\u00a0accurate enough to aid in\u00a0certain design\u00a0decisions, but to combat climate change, we need a more dependable\u00a0way to predict the results of riskier investments in\u00a0building design and operations,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cWe know that our buildings in the developed world operate very poorly across the board, but the problem is that every building is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuelson hopes an improved modeling system will become a standard part of design decision-making, not just in new construction but in retrofits and operational decisions. She cited once finding annual savings of $120,000 for a building just in changing operations of the cooling system. Multiply those energy savings times the millions of existing buildings in the country, and the environmental gains and financial payoffs could be huge.<\/p>\n<p>While Samuelson is working on realizing potential energy savings that enhance human well-being, other researchers are trying to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, will focus on lowering the costs of solar cells by exploring the use of commercially available organic dyes as the solar energy conversion component.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from their extraordinary adaptability, organic solar cells also carry greater potential for material application \u2014 like fabric. Think jackets that could charge your smartphone, or tarps covering rooftops in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started our search for organic solar materials, many things have changed. Manufacturers have lowered the cost for silicon, and a new class of materials has taken the world by storm,\u201d said Aspuru-Guzik, saying that although the market has improved, \u201corganics still have a niche. Where 2 billion people have no access to electricity, their costs will matter a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some costs have no dollar amount. Widely touted as more environmentally friendly than other energy sources, new hydroelectric sites release large pulses of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, where it persists for between 10 and 30 years, with global effects.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Elsie Sunderland, Daniel Jacob, also of the Paulson School, and James Hammitt of the Chan School are looking at the impact of methane released from dams to try to identify feasible alternatives. The project will track present methane releases, making use of satellite imagery, to help raise awareness of the issue among policymakers and inform decision-makers about future hydroelectric dams.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland echoed a sentiment from many of the fund\u2019s winners, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so excited that this research has been funded: This will do a lot in terms of starting that dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\r\n<p>Belching smokestacks and idling cars may be the typical scapegoats for climate change, but millions of other factors contribute \u2014 sometimes ones we never think twice about, like cracking a window because the heat is too high or small leaks from old gas lines.<\/p>\n<p>As communities around the globe move to dramatically reduce emissions in an effort to curb the impact of climate change, researchers across Harvard are developing new energy technologies and promoting changes large and small to speed solutions on the local, regional, and global levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/president-fausts-climate-initiative-awards-1m-in-grants\/\">Ten research projects<\/a> driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">Climate Change Solutions Fund,<\/a> an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The projects sound as futuristic as shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere to deflect the sun\u2019s rays \u2014 and as down-to-earth as grassroots community campaigns to spark behavior changes at home. But the common threads are creativity and collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, forging an effort in which nontraditional factors of climate change are examined from multiple viewpoints in order to contribute inspired solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research wouldn't happen in\u00a0our silos,\u201d said Holly Samuelson, an assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who is working with researcher Jose Guillermo Cede\u00f1o Laurent from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The pair will use Harvard\u2019s campus as a \u201cliving laboratory\u201d to find a better way to measure the overall climate impact of existing buildings, leveraging data from occupant behavior to improve construction and renovation planning tools for the indoor spaces where we spend most of our time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o Laurent has developed a way to passively gather data on occupant behavior through an algorithm that correlates environmental measures like temperature, noise, and carbon dioxide levels with activity data collected from wearable devices \u2014 in this case, donned by volunteer Harvard undergrads. The refinements in understanding of occupant behavior are critical to help building professionals design infrastructure that reduces environmental impact and offsets the challenges of changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal in life is not to build buildings, but [to] produce some kind of output in those buildings,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cIt\u2019s possible to have very energy-efficient buildings that are very unhealthy, and also it\u2019s possible to waste a lot of energy striving toward health goals in some buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the more nuanced occupant behavior data, Cede\u00f1o Laurent and Samuelson can develop and test a framework to assess a\u00a0building\u2019s performance on indoor environmental quality as well as energy use, metrics that tend to be evaluated separately today to the detriment of the green building movement. Using that framework, they will be able to\u00a0improve the accuracy of the energy models used to evaluate building performance.\u00a0Through the gathering of human and operational data, patterns emerge \u2014 and from patterns, more accurate predictions on occupant behavior and its prompts. Applying these patterns and predictions into energy modeling software could provide new insights for creating eco- and user-friendly spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, energy models are not used as much as they could be due to the costs of customization to each particular design project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the box, there are just so many thousands of knobs to turn in these energy simulations. They\u2019re\u00a0accurate enough to aid in\u00a0certain design\u00a0decisions, but to combat climate change, we need a more dependable\u00a0way to predict the results of riskier investments in\u00a0building design and operations,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cWe know that our buildings in the developed world operate very poorly across the board, but the problem is that every building is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuelson hopes an improved modeling system will become a standard part of design decision-making, not just in new construction but in retrofits and operational decisions. She cited once finding annual savings of $120,000 for a building just in changing operations of the cooling system. Multiply those energy savings times the millions of existing buildings in the country, and the environmental gains and financial payoffs could be huge.<\/p>\n<p>While Samuelson is working on realizing potential energy savings that enhance human well-being, other researchers are trying to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, will focus on lowering the costs of solar cells by exploring the use of commercially available organic dyes as the solar energy conversion component.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from their extraordinary adaptability, organic solar cells also carry greater potential for material application \u2014 like fabric. Think jackets that could charge your smartphone, or tarps covering rooftops in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started our search for organic solar materials, many things have changed. Manufacturers have lowered the cost for silicon, and a new class of materials has taken the world by storm,\u201d said Aspuru-Guzik, saying that although the market has improved, \u201corganics still have a niche. Where 2 billion people have no access to electricity, their costs will matter a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some costs have no dollar amount. Widely touted as more environmentally friendly than other energy sources, new hydroelectric sites release large pulses of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, where it persists for between 10 and 30 years, with global effects.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Elsie Sunderland, Daniel Jacob, also of the Paulson School, and James Hammitt of the Chan School are looking at the impact of methane released from dams to try to identify feasible alternatives. The project will track present methane releases, making use of satellite imagery, to help raise awareness of the issue among policymakers and inform decision-makers about future hydroelectric dams.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland echoed a sentiment from many of the fund\u2019s winners, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so excited that this research has been funded: This will do a lot in terms of starting that dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n"],"rendered":"\r\n<p>Belching smokestacks and idling cars may be the typical scapegoats for climate change, but millions of other factors contribute \u2014 sometimes ones we never think twice about, like cracking a window because the heat is too high or small leaks from old gas lines.<\/p>\n<p>As communities around the globe move to dramatically reduce emissions in an effort to curb the impact of climate change, researchers across Harvard are developing new energy technologies and promoting changes large and small to speed solutions on the local, regional, and global levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/president-fausts-climate-initiative-awards-1m-in-grants\/\">Ten research projects<\/a> driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">Climate Change Solutions Fund,<\/a> an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The projects sound as futuristic as shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere to deflect the sun\u2019s rays \u2014 and as down-to-earth as grassroots community campaigns to spark behavior changes at home. But the common threads are creativity and collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, forging an effort in which nontraditional factors of climate change are examined from multiple viewpoints in order to contribute inspired solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research wouldn't happen in\u00a0our silos,\u201d said Holly Samuelson, an assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who is working with researcher Jose Guillermo Cede\u00f1o Laurent from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The pair will use Harvard\u2019s campus as a \u201cliving laboratory\u201d to find a better way to measure the overall climate impact of existing buildings, leveraging data from occupant behavior to improve construction and renovation planning tools for the indoor spaces where we spend most of our time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o Laurent has developed a way to passively gather data on occupant behavior through an algorithm that correlates environmental measures like temperature, noise, and carbon dioxide levels with activity data collected from wearable devices \u2014 in this case, donned by volunteer Harvard undergrads. The refinements in understanding of occupant behavior are critical to help building professionals design infrastructure that reduces environmental impact and offsets the challenges of changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal in life is not to build buildings, but [to] produce some kind of output in those buildings,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cIt\u2019s possible to have very energy-efficient buildings that are very unhealthy, and also it\u2019s possible to waste a lot of energy striving toward health goals in some buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the more nuanced occupant behavior data, Cede\u00f1o Laurent and Samuelson can develop and test a framework to assess a\u00a0building\u2019s performance on indoor environmental quality as well as energy use, metrics that tend to be evaluated separately today to the detriment of the green building movement. Using that framework, they will be able to\u00a0improve the accuracy of the energy models used to evaluate building performance.\u00a0Through the gathering of human and operational data, patterns emerge \u2014 and from patterns, more accurate predictions on occupant behavior and its prompts. Applying these patterns and predictions into energy modeling software could provide new insights for creating eco- and user-friendly spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, energy models are not used as much as they could be due to the costs of customization to each particular design project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the box, there are just so many thousands of knobs to turn in these energy simulations. They\u2019re\u00a0accurate enough to aid in\u00a0certain design\u00a0decisions, but to combat climate change, we need a more dependable\u00a0way to predict the results of riskier investments in\u00a0building design and operations,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cWe know that our buildings in the developed world operate very poorly across the board, but the problem is that every building is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuelson hopes an improved modeling system will become a standard part of design decision-making, not just in new construction but in retrofits and operational decisions. She cited once finding annual savings of $120,000 for a building just in changing operations of the cooling system. Multiply those energy savings times the millions of existing buildings in the country, and the environmental gains and financial payoffs could be huge.<\/p>\n<p>While Samuelson is working on realizing potential energy savings that enhance human well-being, other researchers are trying to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, will focus on lowering the costs of solar cells by exploring the use of commercially available organic dyes as the solar energy conversion component.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from their extraordinary adaptability, organic solar cells also carry greater potential for material application \u2014 like fabric. Think jackets that could charge your smartphone, or tarps covering rooftops in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started our search for organic solar materials, many things have changed. Manufacturers have lowered the cost for silicon, and a new class of materials has taken the world by storm,\u201d said Aspuru-Guzik, saying that although the market has improved, \u201corganics still have a niche. Where 2 billion people have no access to electricity, their costs will matter a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some costs have no dollar amount. Widely touted as more environmentally friendly than other energy sources, new hydroelectric sites release large pulses of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, where it persists for between 10 and 30 years, with global effects.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Elsie Sunderland, Daniel Jacob, also of the Paulson School, and James Hammitt of the Chan School are looking at the impact of methane released from dams to try to identify feasible alternatives. The project will track present methane releases, making use of satellite imagery, to help raise awareness of the issue among policymakers and inform decision-makers about future hydroelectric dams.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland echoed a sentiment from many of the fund\u2019s winners, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so excited that this research has been funded: This will do a lot in terms of starting that dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n\r\n\r\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n","\r\n","\r\n","\n\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-2c3b710d-aa44-4e50-bffe-981437d4aa03\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/river_climategrants_605.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/\">\n\t\t\tScience &amp; Tech\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/02\/support-for-seven-from-presidents-climate-fund\/\">Support for seven from president\u2019s climate fund<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2015-02-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2015\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t8 min read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Belching smokestacks and idling cars may be the typical scapegoats for climate change, but millions of other factors contribute \u2014 sometimes ones we never think twice about, like cracking a window because the heat is too high or small leaks from old gas lines.<\/p>\n<p>As communities around the globe move to dramatically reduce emissions in an effort to curb the impact of climate change, researchers across Harvard are developing new energy technologies and promoting changes large and small to speed solutions on the local, regional, and global levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/president-fausts-climate-initiative-awards-1m-in-grants\/\">Ten research projects<\/a> driven by faculty collaborators across six Harvard Schools will share over $1 million in the second round of grants awarded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/vpr.harvard.edu\/internal-funding-opportunities-1\">Climate Change Solutions Fund,<\/a> an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust to encourage multidisciplinary research around climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The projects sound as futuristic as shooting reflective particles into the atmosphere to deflect the sun\u2019s rays \u2014 and as down-to-earth as grassroots community campaigns to spark behavior changes at home. But the common threads are creativity and collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, forging an effort in which nontraditional factors of climate change are examined from multiple viewpoints in order to contribute inspired solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research wouldn't happen in\u00a0our silos,\u201d said Holly Samuelson, an assistant professor of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who is working with researcher Jose Guillermo Cede\u00f1o Laurent from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The pair will use Harvard\u2019s campus as a \u201cliving laboratory\u201d to find a better way to measure the overall climate impact of existing buildings, leveraging data from occupant behavior to improve construction and renovation planning tools for the indoor spaces where we spend most of our time.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cede\u00f1o Laurent has developed a way to passively gather data on occupant behavior through an algorithm that correlates environmental measures like temperature, noise, and carbon dioxide levels with activity data collected from wearable devices \u2014 in this case, donned by volunteer Harvard undergrads. The refinements in understanding of occupant behavior are critical to help building professionals design infrastructure that reduces environmental impact and offsets the challenges of changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal in life is not to build buildings, but [to] produce some kind of output in those buildings,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cIt\u2019s possible to have very energy-efficient buildings that are very unhealthy, and also it\u2019s possible to waste a lot of energy striving toward health goals in some buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the more nuanced occupant behavior data, Cede\u00f1o Laurent and Samuelson can develop and test a framework to assess a\u00a0building\u2019s performance on indoor environmental quality as well as energy use, metrics that tend to be evaluated separately today to the detriment of the green building movement. Using that framework, they will be able to\u00a0improve the accuracy of the energy models used to evaluate building performance.\u00a0Through the gathering of human and operational data, patterns emerge \u2014 and from patterns, more accurate predictions on occupant behavior and its prompts. Applying these patterns and predictions into energy modeling software could provide new insights for creating eco- and user-friendly spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, energy models are not used as much as they could be due to the costs of customization to each particular design project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the box, there are just so many thousands of knobs to turn in these energy simulations. They\u2019re\u00a0accurate enough to aid in\u00a0certain design\u00a0decisions, but to combat climate change, we need a more dependable\u00a0way to predict the results of riskier investments in\u00a0building design and operations,\u201d said Samuelson. \u201cWe know that our buildings in the developed world operate very poorly across the board, but the problem is that every building is different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Samuelson hopes an improved modeling system will become a standard part of design decision-making, not just in new construction but in retrofits and operational decisions. She cited once finding annual savings of $120,000 for a building just in changing operations of the cooling system. Multiply those energy savings times the millions of existing buildings in the country, and the environmental gains and financial payoffs could be huge.<\/p>\n<p>While Samuelson is working on realizing potential energy savings that enhance human well-being, other researchers are trying to accelerate the transition to clean, renewable energy. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, will focus on lowering the costs of solar cells by exploring the use of commercially available organic dyes as the solar energy conversion component.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from their extraordinary adaptability, organic solar cells also carry greater potential for material application \u2014 like fabric. Think jackets that could charge your smartphone, or tarps covering rooftops in the developing world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we started our search for organic solar materials, many things have changed. Manufacturers have lowered the cost for silicon, and a new class of materials has taken the world by storm,\u201d said Aspuru-Guzik, saying that although the market has improved, \u201corganics still have a niche. Where 2 billion people have no access to electricity, their costs will matter a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some costs have no dollar amount. Widely touted as more environmentally friendly than other energy sources, new hydroelectric sites release large pulses of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere, where it persists for between 10 and 30 years, with global effects.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Professor Elsie Sunderland, Daniel Jacob, also of the Paulson School, and James Hammitt of the Chan School are looking at the impact of methane released from dams to try to identify feasible alternatives. The project will track present methane releases, making use of satellite imagery, to help raise awareness of the issue among policymakers and inform decision-makers about future hydroelectric dams.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland echoed a sentiment from many of the fund\u2019s winners, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m so excited that this research has been funded: This will do a lot in terms of starting that dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n"}},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":237376,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/01\/new-grants-for-climate-solutions\/","url_meta":{"origin":180352,"position":0},"title":"New grants for climate solutions","author":"gazettejohnbaglione","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Seven new research projects have been awarded funding in the fourth round of grants from Harvard\u2019s Climate Change Solutions Fund.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science &amp; Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science &amp; Tech","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/100810_stock_030_2500.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/100810_stock_030_2500.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/100810_stock_030_2500.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/100810_stock_030_2500.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175197,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2015\/10\/wanted-climate-change-solutions\/","url_meta":{"origin":180352,"position":1},"title":"Wanted: Climate change solutions","author":"harvardgazette","date":"October 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Harvard will again fund grants of up to $150,000 for promising ideas to combat climate change.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Science &amp; Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Science &amp; Tech","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/science-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100810_stock_045_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100810_stock_045_605.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/100810_stock_045_605.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":154611,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2014\/04\/fund-to-tackle-climate-change\/","url_meta":{"origin":180352,"position":2},"title":"Fund to tackle climate change","author":"harvardgazette","date":"April 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In an effort to catalyze research into sustainable energy sources, Harvard President Drew Faust has challenged University friends and alumni to raise a $20 million Climate Change Solutions Fund and seed new approaches to confronting the threat of climate change.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Campus &amp; Community&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Campus &amp; Community","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/faust_climate.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/faust_climate.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/faust_climate.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":180384,"url":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2016\/03\/president-fausts-climate-initiative-awards-1m-in-grants\/","url_meta":{"origin":180352,"position":3},"title":"President Faust&#8217;s climate initiative awards $1M in grants","author":"harvardgazette","date":"March 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The recipients of grants awarded by the Climate Change Solutions Fund, an initiative launched last year by President Drew Faust, were announced. 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