Postdoctoral Associate
Center for Global Change Science
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and
Planetary Sciences
Joint Program on the Science and
Policy of Global Change
77 Massachusetts Avenue
MIT Bldg 54-1413
Cambridge, MA, 02139
Telephone: 617-452-5994
E-mail: esaikawa@mit.edu
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