Insights

Daniel Fabrycky is a Professor in UChicago's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics whose research with CSEi centers around a bold idea: placing dust particles in orbit around the Earth to block a small fraction of incoming sunlight.

Pete Irvine, Research Assistant Professor at UChicago, and Editorial Director of SRM360.org, discusses his work at CSEi. Irvine's research focuses on stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), a proposed approach to cooling the planet by releasing tiny reflective particles into the upper...

In this Perspective piece, CSEi Founding Faculty Director David Keith and Communications Specialist Ben Peltz explain the term “climate systems engineering” and why they prefer it over other labels like “geoengineering.”

Manon Duret, a Research Assistant Professor at CSEi and the Dept. of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, discusses her work on ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE).

Liz Moyer, Associate Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences, discusses her research on the potential impacts of proposed methods to cool the earth by altering certain clouds.

It may seem counterintuitive that climate changes could bring both floods and dryness, which seem like extremes on opposite ends of the weather spectrum. But they are connected, writes Elisabeth Moyer in USA Today.

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.

Climate Systems Engineering initiative Founding Faculty Director David Keith speaks with Smarter Markets at CERAWeek 2026.

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...

 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.