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Machine Learning Methods to Determine Arctic Methane Emissions

Data and Imaging Science | Environmental and Climate Science

MSI PIs are using machine learning methods to reduce uncertainty in measuring estimates of methane emissions from Arctic lakes.

9/10/2025

St. Louis River Estuary Habitat Map

Ecosystems and Agriculture | Environmental and Climate Science

A team of researchers preparing a habitat map of the St. Louis River Estuary used MSI's supercomputing cluster, Agate, for their computational work.

8/13/2025

Carbon Emission Efficiency and Human Mobility

Environmental and Climate Science

MSI PI Di Zhu (Assistant Professor, Geography, Environment, and Society) is working on a project called “Quantifying Carbon Emission Efficiency

5/7/2025

Atmospheric Chemicals and Their Reactions

Environmental and Climate Science

The presence and reactions of atmospheric chemicals affect conditions at the ground level. MSI PI Dylan Millet (Professor, Soil, Water, and Climate) s...

11/13/2024

Reducing Pollution From Agriculture and Mining

Environmental and Climate Science

Agriculture and mining are two important industries in Minnesota, but they are also associated with significant environmental concerns due to the carb...

9/6/2024

University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership

Environmental and Climate Science

The University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership (MCAP) is a joint program of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource S...

7/10/2024

Computational Modeling to Determine Effects of Climate Change Mitigation

Environmental and Climate Science

As the largest terrestrial carbon pool, global soils provide great opportunity for climate change mitigation by transforming atmospheric CO2 as soil o...

4/17/2024

Manufacturability Framework for E-Textile Circuits and Systems

Computational Science and Technology | Data and Imaging Science | Environmental and Climate Science | Infrastructure and Resources | Materials Science and Engineering

E-textile products are a fast-growing area of the wearable technology industry. However, commercial efforts are often hampered by the significant cost...

10/25/2023

Using Nanopore Adaptive Sampling for Genetic Analysis

Computational Science and Technology | Data and Imaging Science | Environmental and Climate Science | Genetics and Genomics

New long-read sequencing technologies and bioinformatics pipelines have been developed that provide scientists with tools to more efficiently map and ...

9/13/2023

Nutrient Network Research

Data and Imaging Science | Ecosystems and Agriculture | Environmental and Climate Science

The Nutrient Network, aka NutNet, is a global collaborative research group studying two of the most important effects of humans on grassland ecosystem...

8/9/2023

Modeling Greenhouse Gases in a Tropical Peatland

Computational Science and Technology | Data and Imaging Science | Environmental and Climate Science

Tropical peatlands are a large natural source of atmospheric methane (CH4), which is a powerful greenhouse gas. However, their impact on climate is no...

7/11/2023

Computational Model to Predict Nitrogen Oxides

Computational Science and Technology | Data and Imaging Science | Environmental and Climate Science | Materials Science and Engineering

Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are a major pollutant caused by combustion. To understand the NOx output of a combustion system, researchers can use computer si...

6/14/2023

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