In the Media

Oct 08, 2025
Panama Canal May Face Frequent Extreme Water Lows in Coming Decades
MES/CEE Associate Professor Samuel Muñoz was featured in the EurekAlert article “Panama Canal may face frequent extreme water lows in coming decades” for leading the study that used a computational […]

Oct 01, 2025
Commonwealth Fund Report Finds NY and Vermont Well Positioned To Weather Climate Challenges
CEE Associate Professor Matthew Eckelman was featured in the WAMC article “Commonwealth Fund report finds NY and Vermont well positioned to weather climate challenges.”

Sep 30, 2025
Boston, Northeastern University Launch Mobile Lab To Track Air Pollution Block by Block
CEE Assistant Professor Shang Liu was featured in the WCVB’s article “Boston, Northeastern University launch mobile lab to track air pollution block by block” as he deploys an Air Quality Mobile Lab to support a recent $1.1M grant Community Clean Air grant awarded to the city.

Jun 16, 2025
Researchers Discover Microplastics at All Ocean Depths
MES/COS/CEE Professor Aron Stubbins was featured on the NSF news story “Researchers discover microplastics at all ocean depths,” over the discovery of microplastics forming a “plastic smog” at all ocean depths, potentially disrupting marine food chains.

Jun 09, 2025
Hazy Futures
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly was quoted in Science’s article “Hazy Futures” for his research, published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL), which revealed that a widely used climate model downscaling method produced results statistically indistinguishable from random noise, thus having serious implications for adaptation planning.

Jun 04, 2025
Can AI Fight Climate Change Without Making It Worse?
CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly was featured in the Agents of Tech podcast “Can AI Fight Climate Change Without Making It Worse?,” where he discusses how AI can be a […]

Jun 03, 2025
A New Project Is Helping Chelsea Residents Better Understand Their Air Quality
Engineers as part of Northeastern’s ISUPER Impact Engineer, led by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering under Distinguished Professor Yang Zhang, in collaboration with the city of Chelsea and […]

May 21, 2025
‘Dialogue of Civilizations—Climate Change in Emerging Economies’ Program
A Dialogue of Civilizations program led by CEE Distinguished Professor Auroop Ganguly and civil engineering alums Ruth Linnaea Cahill, E’20, and Francisco Mendes, E’17, was featured in a live broadcast on Polar Radio in Punta Arenas, Chile.