Environmental contaminants can profoundly affect air quality, ecosystems, climate, human health, and the sustainability of the communities in which we live. The SEELab brings together environmental engineering, aerospace, atmospheric science, and emerging technologies to better understand these impacts and develop innovative solutions for a changing world.

SEEL’s mission is to identify, characterize, and understand environmental contaminants, their sources, transport, transformation, and impacts across Earth’s environmental systems. Through experimental research, field measurements, data analytics, modeling, and emerging artificial intelligence technologies, we translate environmental observations into actionable knowledge and strategies for reducing and mitigating environmental impacts.

We investigate emissions generated by the technologies that enable modern transportation and space exploration, from aircraft and airports to rocket launches and emerging aerospace systems, including: aircraft emissions, airport emissions and air quality, rocket launch emissions, aerospace sustainability, atmospheric monitoring, and artificial intelligence and predictive modeling. As humanity prepares for sustained exploration of the Moon and, eventually, Mars, new environmental engineering challenges emerge.

Our research interests include lunar and planetary dust, particulate transport, environmental sensing, and the interaction between aerospace operations and extraterrestrial environments. SEELab is engineering the future of environmental sustainability—from Earth to the Moon and beyond.