Podcast episode·Apr 9, 2026

MCB: Can Brighter Clouds Cool the Planet? with Dr. Jessica Wan

via Oceanography
Climate scientist and CSEi Research Fellow Jessica Wan joined the Oceanography podcast to explain how marine cloud brightening (MCB) works, and what climate models reveal about MCB's unintended effects.
Podcast episode·Apr 6, 2026

Scenes from S&P Global’s CERAWeek 26 | David Keith, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative, UChicago

via Smarter Markets
Climate Systems Engineering initiative Founding Faculty Director David Keith speaks with Smarter Markets at CERAWeek 2026.
Video·Mar 18, 2026

Compton Lecture 1: Climate as a 4D Problem (Featuring David Keith)

David Keith introduces the series, outlining the four dimensions of climate action: decarbonization, carbon removal, sunlight reflection, and adaptation; the four tools that can weaken the causal chain that stretches from economic activity to the impacts of climate change on...
Video·Mar 18, 2026

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Video·Feb 25, 2026

Faculty Spotlight: B.B. Cael

 B. B. Cael, an assistant professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, talks about his work in ocean alkalinity and the importance of climate systems engineering research.
Podcast episode·Feb 11, 2026

Nature Revisited: Eyal Frank

Eyal Frank is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Working at the intersection of ecology and economics, his research addresses three broad questions – how animals contribute to specific production functions, how market...
Chart·Dec 9, 2025

Delivering Clean Water is Highly Cost Effective

Access to clean drinking water remains one of the world’s most pressing public health challenges, with more than 2 billion people around the world left without clean water to drink. Only 14 percent of rural households in low- and middle-income...
Research Highlights·Dec 4, 2025

The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India

Could home delivery of locally-treated water increase access to clean drinking water?