As a Research Center at a public research university, the unifying goal of all our research is to support evidence-based climate decisions, policy, and action in the Commonwealth and beyond. We welcome the opportunity to serve as a resource for policymakers and also research the impact our work has on climate change decision-making in Massachusetts and around the world.
Climate Variability and Climate Change
American Politics, Political Methodology
Labor economics, the economics of disability, applied econometrics, scholarship of teaching and learning
Theoretical molecular spectroscopy with emphasis on the spectral line shape problem
Buyer-supplier relationship; marketing innovations; mobile marketing; international marketing; emerging markets.
Evolution, Biodiversity, Phylogenetics, Herpetology
Environmental Economics and Policy, Risk, Natural Hazards, Disaster Mitigation, Climate Change
Cost Management, Institutions and Sustainability
Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Policy
Applied Macro and Micro Models, Energy & Environmental Economics, Economics of Occupational Health
Engineering and applied mechanics, computational modeling of materials and structures, and applied statistics
Political Violence and Extremism, Security Policy and Politics, Far-Right Politics (Europe, US and Israel), Political Socialization, Middle Eastern Politics, Research Methodology (SNA).
Areas of expertise include social change, work and inequality, and gender and science.
Climate Change and Sustainability, Microbial Ecology, Biogeochemistry
Work Environment Policy, Health Education and Policy
Renewable polymers, Plastics processing, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering
Environmental Health, Chemicals Policy, Pollution Prevention, Risk Assessment
