Graduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Atmospheric Impacts of Hydrogen as an Aviation Fuel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)Hydrogen is being investigated as a promising zero-carbon aviation fuel, offering the potential to eliminate direct CO₂ emissions while being produced with low lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. Despite these benefits, ... -
A Changing Climate Beneath Our Feet: How plant and microbial life in tropical soils are shifting and what that could mean for the future of our warming planet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)Discussions about climate change and carbon sequestration have largely revolved around plant structures we can easily see, like leaves that absorb CO₂ for photosynthesis and woody trunks that store carbon as biomass. Carbon ... -
Engineering Winter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)As winters warm and snowfall becomes less reliable, ski resorts worldwide increasingly depend on artificial snow to stay open. Snowmaking, once a stopgap, has become the backbone of entire seasons in a sprawling choreography ...
