Benjamin Brown-Steiner

Postdoctoral Associate, Joint Program
benbs@mit.edu
Phone
617-324-1193
Office
E19-411n

Earth Systems, Policy Scenarios, Air Quality & Health

Bio

Biography:
Dr. Benjamin Brown-Steiner is a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. His research is on uncertainty analysis, model development and implementation of a three-dimensional atmospheric chemistry model in the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM). Prior to MIT he worked on climate-chemistry simulations examining various impacts on surface air chemistry in the Eastern US as well as diagnostic analysis of the capabilities and limitations of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) with Chemistry. He is also interested in science communication with non-scientists and has regularly volunteered in his community as a science writer and communicator.

Education & Credentials

B.S. with Honors, Clarkson University, Environmental Engineering, 2008
M.S., Cornell University, Biological and Environmental Engineering, 2012
Ph.D., Cornell University, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Simulating Surface Air Pollution in the United States: An Examination of Major Influences and a Diagnosis of Model Capabilities, 2015

Recent Publications

Joint Program Reprint
Journal Article
Description and Evaluation of the MIT Earth System Model (MESM)
Reprint 2018-10. Download

Sokolov, A., D. Kicklighter, C.A. Schlosser, C. Wang, E. Monier, B. Brown-Steiner, R. Prinn, C. Forest, X. Gao, A. Libardoni and S. Eastham (2018)
AGU Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems , 10(8), 1759-1789 (doi: 10.1029/2018MS001277)

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