Eri Saikawa

 

Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Global Change Science
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

MIT

77 Massachusetts Avenue
MIT Bldg 54-1413
Cambridge, MA, 02139

Telephone: 617-452-5994
E-mail: esaikawa@mit.edu

 

 

Publications

 

CV

Education:

Ph.D., Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
         Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

MPA, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

BE, Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Tokyo

Research Interests:
I conduct interdisciplinary research on environment. I am interested in: atmospheric chemistry (modeling aerosols and tropospheric ozone), climate science (estimating emissions of greenhouse gases), and environmental policy (environmental standards and trade, health analysis and environmental politics)

Three projects in my dissertation were:
1) Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling - impacts of aerosols on air quality, premature mortality and radiative forcing
2) International Political Economy - mechanisms and impact of the diffusion of vehicle emissions standards
3) Policy Analysis - China's environmental policymaking processes both at the national and local levels

My dissertation is found here.

Currently, I am a member of the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), and work on the following projects:
1) Estimating global soil nitrous oxide emissions
2) Estimating global and regional emissions of HCFC-22
3) Analyzing the seasonality and inter-annual variability of nitrous oxide mole fractions