The most pressing problems facing our natural environment are complex, often requiring collaborative investigation by scholars versed in different disciplines. By connecting scholars and practitioners from different disciplines, we seek to raise the quality of environmental research at Harvard and beyond.
Scientists at Harvard SEAS address climate issues such as global warming; stratospheric ozone depletion; local and regional air and water pollution; clean energy production and storage; the future of food production; societal impacts and mitigations; as well as understanding and predicting climate-related natural disasters.
This work requires perspectives from a diverse set of scientific disciplines including atmospheric physics and chemistry, oceanography, glaciology, hydrology, geophysics, ecology, and biogeochemistry as well as materials science, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering.
We seek to provide the next generation of Harvard-educated researchers, policymakers and corporate leaders with a comprehensive interdisciplinary environmental education, while fostering linkages and partnerships amongst different parts of the University as well as between the University and the outside world.
